Pilgrims, interpreters, and agents
Subtitle: French reconnaissance reports on the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno, 1891-1895
By: edited by A.S. Kanya-Forstner and Paul E. Lovejoy.
Contributors: Kanya-Forstner, A. S. 1940-; Lovejoy, Paul E.; University of Wisconsin--Madison. African Studies Program.
Publisher: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Madison
Language: fre
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Fulani Empire -- Description and travel; Kanem-Bornu Empire -- Description and travel
Notes: Text of the reports in the original French transcription; introd. and notes in English.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Renseignements sur le Baoutchi / El Hadj Mohammed ben Adam; title: Itinéraire du Fellati ; Empire de Sokoto : géographie politique ; Pays situés au nord de Sokoto ; Empire de Sokoto : commerce / El Hadj Ahmed el-Fellati; title: Empire du Bornou / El Hadj Adem Mahamma; title: La situation économique du Soudan / Messaoud Djebari; title: Notes sur l'empire de Sokoto / El Hadj Mohamed Boubekeur; title: Un nouvel état musulman dans l'Afrique centrale / Antonin Goguyer; title: Appendix, Genealogical charts.