How have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.
In Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World, edited by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault, 119–41. Vancouver: ubc Press. Asiwaju, A.I., and P. O. ... Bach, Daniel C. 2003. “Application et Implications de la Charia: Fin de Partie ...
... Caliph Bello. Foreign traders and specialist artisans were attracted to the main Hausa cities by the favourable social and economic conditions, contributing to the expansion of the textile ... cotton (Last 1998: 231). Without the initial ...
Based on selected papers presented at the international conference on Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa, held in the University of Nigeria in 2001. Drawing from the works of...
The book includes case studies on churches, synagogues and sacred sites in Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Egypt; Iraq; Tunisia; Morocco; Malta; Nigeria; Mali, and the Gambia.
For important insights on patterns of conflict resolution in Nigeria, see John Paden (2005), Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Democratic Federalism in Nigeria (Washington DC: Brookings Institution).
However, both the tribal Dinka and Nuer were hard to understand or negotiate with, so much so that in 1930, the British authorities commissioned Evans-Pritchard to study the Nuer. The result of his study is the theory (much debated now) ...
This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.
Baba Nakkaş was the head of the nakkaşhane established in Topkapı Palace (Ünver, 1958, pp. 1-5). Since there are no Ehl-i Hiref Registers from the period of Sultan Mehmed II, we do not have much information about Baba Nakkaş.
... illegal in the United States due to (with historical hindsight) misconceived prohibition law, but probably not illicit in the eyes of buyers and sellers (drawing on conceptual distinctions developed in chapter 10 on trade).23 These ...
... Hausa Factor, 12–14, 92. 25. William F. S. Miles, Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), 257–58; Emmanuel Gre ́goire, “Islam and the Identity of Merchants in ...