Shari'a as de-Africanization: evidence from Hausaland.

Terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 overlapped with ongoing movements of Islamic fundamentalism in sub-Saharan Africa; however, these movements have not been identical, nor have they encountered uniform responses from the governments overseeing them. This is evident in the Hausa borderlands of Niger and Nigeria, where I conducted fieldwork (first begun in the early 1980s) two months after the attacks.

Differences in the application of shari'a (Islamic law) on both sides of the border accentuate differences in Hausa culture and society along national (i. e., ...

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