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Title: The making of Northern Nigeria
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Orr, Charles William James, 1870-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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thus formed was divided into twoportions : the westernmost, which stretched down theNiger as far as its confluence with the Benue andincluded the provinces of Nupe and Illorin, wasentrusted to Abd Allahi, who established himself atGando; the eastern and more important states,including Katsina, Kano, Zaria, Bauchi, and others,were handed over to Bello, with headquarters atSokoto. Thus it came about that the whole of thenorthern part of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeriawas found divided between the two great Mahomedanempires of Bornu and Sokoto ; for Gando, with itssubordinate states of Nupe and Illorin on the east andwest banks of the Middle Niger, though nominallyindependent of Sokoto, became eventually in practicedependent on it.^ These important events have been lightly sketched, ^ There was also the small pagan state of Borgu—or as much of it as hadbeen saved from the French—on the west bank of the Niger, independent ofSokoto. I omit mentioning it in order to save confusion.
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Ill THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE n all detail being avoided, because it is only necessaryfor our purpose to get a general view of the state ofaffairs that existed in these regions at the momentwhen British influence was established over them.The religious upheaval set in motion in the earlyyears of the nineteenth century by Sheikh Othmandan Fodio ended, as has been shown, in the weldingtogether of a number of independent Hausa Statesunder Fulani leadership. Yet each state retained forpractical purposes its virtual independence, and thevarious Fulani Mallams^ became the founders ofdynasties, each in his own state. Each looked to the Sultan of Sokoto as his spiritual chief, andacknowledged his temporal power to a limited extent,but as time went on the descendants of the Mallamsbegan to look upon themselves, and be looked on bythe people, as hereditary rulers succeeding by right to the throne of their fathers. This was the conditionof the Sokoto Empire when the British Protectoratewas procla

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