Ann O'Hear, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin slaves and their successors.

ANN O'HEAR, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin slaves and their successors. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997, 338 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling] ($65.00), ISBN 1 87882 2861.

Ilorin is an interesting place, since, as the most northerly of the large Yoruba city states and the southernmost emirate of the Sokoto caliphate, it sits athwart two of Nigeria's major cultural regions. Once a subordinate town of the Oyo empire, it was completely transformed in the early nineteenth century, keeping its Yoruba cultural base ...

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