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kano, old town
Walter Mittelholzer 1930

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the tenth century hausa city grew in the 15/16th century under songhai till it became the commercial capital of west africa in the 19th century
surrounded by a 30ft high wall <like zinder's>, the city ... 1/3
imported textiles (yoruba), linen (egypt), kola nuts (asante), gunpowder and paper (europeans), exporting everything from leather products < like sandals, saddles, book covers, the so-called moroccan leather> to dyed cloths, swords and other weaponry
supplanting trade rivals 2/3
katsina and timbuktu

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Government in Kano, 1350-1950
Michael Garfield Smith
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Go…

Economic history of West Africa
Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi, E. K. Faluyi
books.google.co.ug/books/about/Ec…

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Heinrich Barth, Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney
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two sides of the same coin

brazil and US were trying to solve their "negro problem" one by whitewashing/branqueamento (more like assimilation than integration) and the other by segregation (exclusion)
i was reading this excellent book on portugal's colonial legacy in angola esp on its so-called egalitarian form of racial assimilation called Lusotropicalism

alot of it had to do with the gender ratio between the (white) male colonists and (white) female settlers,
basically, more (white) female settlers eliminated the need for the (white) male colonists to partner with the (non-white) female natives, reducing the mestizo popn and imposing more segregative laws on both the latter and the former

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isaac Samuel
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Taleh fort complex 1910-1915
sanaag, somaliland

the fort complex served as the capital of somali anti-colonial rebel; Mohammed Abdullah Hassan -leader of the dervish state

the fort was bombed by the british in 1919 one of the earliest incidents of aerial bombardment
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mohammed hassan, then called mad mullah was the leader of one of africa's long-lasting colonial armed rebellions from 1899-1920 and is revered in somalia today

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Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland: Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921

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isaac Samuel
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16th century Memorial Brass Head of queen Idia

-Ethnological Museum, Berlin
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-benin's first queen mother (iyoba) was a renown military strategist, administrator and one of africa's greatest (female) sovereigns personally involved in benin's many wars of conquest esp..
in the civil war against Arhuaran <then the rival claimant to the throne>, Esigie's brother and the igala both of whom she defeated later becoming one of the top administrators in the empire -then at its greatest extent

she's featured prominently in benin royal arts
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