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Sokoto Caliphate

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Sokoto Caliphate: see Usuman dan Fodio Usuman dan Fodio 1754–1817. Fulani religious and political leader. Beginning as an itinerant Muslim missionary in northern Nigeria, he gained a large following for his syncretic visions, establishing a base in Gudu.
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One must be armed with a reasonable grasp of the political-military history of the Sokoto Caliphate in order to recognize how it shaped patterns of enslavement and commerce that placed West Africans with particular cultural, religious, and personal ties, and related patterns of allegiance and opposition, in northeast Brazil in the 1830s.
In chapter 5 they discuss the historical context and how the Yoruba Oyo Empire and the Fulani Sokoto Caliphate contributed to artistic patronage.
A map of the Sokoto caliphate circa 1820 enables the reader to locate the places mentioned in the poems.
 
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