Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad
Subtitle: The Precolonial State of Bundu (African Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521419406
Subjects: African history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; West Africa - History; History - General History; History: World; West Africa; Africa - General; History / Africa; History / Renaissance; History; Boundou (Senegal)
First sentence: West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the eruption of several major "holy wars" across the wide expanse of its savannah, from the Senegal River to Lake Chad.