The Sokoto caliphate started in 1804 as a scholarly settlement of some 70 men – Sufis or students, and a few slaves. A century later , the Sokoto caliphate had become the largest polity in precolonial Africa – four months’ journey west to east and two months’ north to south, spanning about 1000 miles from Dori in modern Burkina to Tibati in Cameroon, and 400 miles from Agades in modern Niger to beyond Ilorin in the south.
As a full-time student in the History Dept. of University College Ibadan, I was supervised by Prof. H. F. C. Smith who suggested to me the idea of studying the Viziers of Sokoto; and it was the then Vizier, Waziri Junaidu who, for a whole long year, very kindly gave me a room to live in, food to eat each night, and a small study-room within his house, where I sat on the floor reading the 300 Arabic manuscripts and the 600 official letters in Arabic that were kept in his family library.
The re-labelling was not in any way official. Prof. H.F.C.
So this book is a product of the heady, exciting years of early Nigerian independence. Though the first edition is dated 1967, the text published is exactly the wording approved by my doctoral examiners in September 1964; the thesis abstract was printed on the inside front cover of the book, and the report by the external examiner Thomas Hodgkin was put on the back. All the genealogies in the thesis were put in a pocket at the end of the book.
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