The Yoruba frontier
Subtitle: a regional history of community formation, experience, and changes in West Africa
By: Aribidesi Usman
Series: African world series; Carolina Academic Press African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781594603846
Subjects: Yoruba (African people); Frontier and pioneer life; History
Notes: "This book combines a series of previously published and unpublished papers and field notes."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Background to the study of precolonial northern Yoruba; title: The making of the Yoruba frontier: the pioneers; title: Second wave: non-autochthonous migrant settlers; title: The Yoruba frontier in the Age of the Empire, ca. 1500-1750; title: The Yoruba frontier in the Age of Revolution, ca. 1750-1900; title: Nineteenth-century missionary activities, resettlements, and merger agitation; title: Conclusions: the place of northern Yoruba in African frontier studies.