INDIGENOUS INDUSTRY: SALT PRODUCTION
Although salt was widely produced throughout Nigeria, there was frequently a shortage due to the strong demand for it. Salt was made by boiling or […]
LEATHER WORKS: INDIGENOUS INDUSTRY
The major hubs for the leather and skin industries were and still are Sokoto, Kano, Bida, and Maiduguri. Similar to the textile industry, Kano’s importance […]
INDIGENOUS INDUSTRIES IN NIGERIA.
Even though Nigeria’s economy was based primarily on agriculture in the past and continues to do so now, many people were also involved in manufacturing, […]
INDIGENOUS INDUSTRIES: IRON SMELTING
Iron smelting industries: long before the ninth and tenth centuries, Nigerian iron smiths worked with copper, tin, and iron. Iron was the most significant of […]
CALIPH: RESULT OF THE JIHAD.
The caliph system or Caliphate is the political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the […]
THE JIHAD: CONTEXT OF THE WAR.
The jihad December 1754 was Sheik Uthman dan Fodio’s birth month. At age twenty, he began preaching. After traveling over Hausaland preaching, he eventually built […]
NORTHERN NIGERIA: THE CONQUEST.
Liard’s 1830s funded expedition to the Niger marked the start of the British invasion of Northern Nigeria. British interest had solidified enough by 1867 for […]
JIHAD: THE HOLY WAR.
The five pillars, or commandments, are the foundation of Islam and are binding on every Muslim. The first of those pillars is the conviction that […]
THE BRITISH EXPEDITION OF SOKOTO CALIPHATE.
As previously stated, both the French and Germans intended for the Sokoto Caliphate. However, at the Berlin Conference, it was determined to fall into the […]
ARO (IGBO-LAND) AND ITS CONQUEST.
Aro abbrevation of Arochukwu is a principal historic town in Igboland. It was also one of the last towns in the Southern protectorate conquered by the British colonial […]
