Power relations in Nigeria
Subtitle: Ilorin slaves and their successors
By: Ann O'Hear.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ;; [v. 1]
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Rochester, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Slavery -- Nigeria -- Ilorin -- History -- 19th century.; Elite (Social sciences) -- Nigeria -- Ilorin -- History -- 20th century.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.; Ilorin (Nigeria) -- Social conditions.; Ilorin (Nigeria) -- History.; Ilorin (Nigeria) -- Politics and government.
Description: This study provides, for the first time, an examination of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicized periphery of the Sokoto Caliphate and of Northern Nigeria. It links the story of the decline of slavery with the emergence of a small-scale peasantry, and follows its fortunes into the late colonial and post-independence periods.

Focusing on Ilorin, a city and emirate on the southern fringe of the Caliphate (now in Nigeria), this study uses the concepts of resistance and accommodation to reveal the evolution of the role relations between the members of the city elite and the slaves and peasants they controlled.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-321) adn index.
Series number taken from jacket.