Medical Missionaries and Modernizing Emirs in Colonial Hausaland

Leprosy Control and Native Authority in the 1930s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8980445
AutoresShobana Shankar (0000-0003-3385-1146, Lafayette College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen48
Número1
Páginas45-68
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853706002489
OpenAlexW1971788027
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

This article argues that emirs modernized and enhanced their authority through cooperation with Christian missions in the anti-leprosy campaign in colonial Hausaland in the 1930s. New documentary and oral sources detail how Native Administrations and Sudan Interior Mission workers together established leprosaria that were important beyond religious interaction. Emirs translated Islamic ideals of charity into governmental responsibility for medical welfare. The leprosy scheme brought together the elite and non-elite in ways that would previously have been unimaginable and took emirs' power to new reaches in an era of expanding native authority in Nigeria and throughout much of British Africa

Archaeology · Colonialism · Elite · Islam · Leprosy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Traditional authority · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Medicine · Public Administration