Mohammed Bashir Salau
Biographic Data
| ID | 507521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Bashir Salau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed Bashir |
| FAMILY NAME | Salau |
| SIGNATURE | SALAU M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8930-5050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jennifer Lofkrantz. Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim West Africa
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God
Journal Article Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria by Abiodun Alao Get access Abiodun Alao. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2022. 298 pp. $27.95. Mohammed Bashir Salau Mohammed Bashir Salau University of Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad040 Published: 19 June 2023 Article history Corrected…
The Sahara and North Africa in the Nineteenth Century
The autobiographies of Dorugu Kwage Adamu and Nicholas Said contain material of interest to the student of social and economic history in various parts of Africa. Yet scholars who have contributed to the literature on Dorugu, the literature on Said, the literature on slavery in Africa, the literature on trans-Saharan commerce, the literature on African representations of “others,” and the literature on the history of race in North Africa have not…
Africa in Global History
This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews . It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the pla…
Religion and Politics in Africa
Until the second half of the twentieth century, the role of religion in Africa was profoundly neglected. There were no university centers devoted to the study of religion in Africa; there was only a handful of scholars who focused primarily on religious studies and most of them were not historians; and there were relatively few serious empirical studies on Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religions. This paucity of rigorous research b…
Slavery
This entry deals with the literature on slavery produced by anthropologists since the mid‐nineteenth century. Although some reference is made to works on the African American New World and other areas, the main focus is on important works on Africa written by scholars in the field in question since 1970. In highlighting more attention to important works on Africa written in recent times, the entry stresses that, despite the focus on varied themes…
Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria
Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, establish…
Slavery in Kano Emirate of Sokoto Caliphate as Recounted
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and le…
The Management of Plantations in the Fanisau Complex
What was the nature of labor organization on the estates of Fanisau? Who determined the labor needs and set the activities of fieldworkers on a daily basis, and what incentives motivated such individuals? What were the principal crops of the plantations? How were crops planted and harvested? How were plantation yields used? How were commodities transported out of Fanisau for necessary disposal? What impact did the pattern of using plantation yiel…
General Conclusion
Although the shari’a and Islamic documents produced in the Sokoto Caliphate are silent on plantations, these structures have had an important place in the history of that state. This study has examined general developments in Kasar Kano to illustrate this point. The growth of the plantation sector in this region passed through two main phases. The first phase began during the reign of Burja in the medieval era, and lasted to the reign of Emir Sul…
The Development of the Fanisau Plantation Complex
Historical sources are not silent on the origin of Fanisau. According to one tradition collected by Yusuf Yunusa, the settlement was founded during Emir Ibrahim Dabo’s reign and was first settled by his “trusted slaves.”1 This view accords well with the assertion of the first European traveler, Clapperton, who visited Fanisau in the early 1820s, and who reported, “[After breakfast I accompanied Hat Salah, the sheikh’s agent, to the sansan, which,…
Sociocultural Life at Fanisau
The previous chapter emphasized the role of slaves in production, and the use of violence to extract surplus agricultural slave labor. In Fanisau, as elsewhere, violence was implicitly part of the slave system. Regardless of this fact, however, there were mechanisms of reward and incentive. Such nonviolent mechanisms are important if the system is to be productive. In recognition of this fact, estate owners employed noncoercive policies in order …
Slave Resistance, Control of Slave Labor, and Groundnut Production
F anisau and several other Kano Emirate societies produced mainly grain crops during the nineteenth century in part for consumption within Kano and in part for regional distribution either across the Sahara or southward toward the forest region of West Africa. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, Britain annexed Northern Nigeria and increasingly encouraged the broad region, including the Kano Emirate, to produce cotton and groundnuts fo…
Kasar Kano
The area in which Fanisau is located has a long history of consistent interaction with other settlements and peoples constituting a fraction of Kasar Kano. This chapter examines that larger historical setting. Thus, it starts by discussing the history of Kasar Kano before proceeding to explain early plantation developments in that region. 1 The chapter also examines the jihad and its impact on the plantation sector in what became the Kano Emirate…
The West African Slave Plantation
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l
The Role of Slave Labor in Groundnut Production in Early Colonial Kano
This article reinforces the interpretation of numerous scholars who have highlighted the role of slave labor in groundnut production during the ‘cash-crop revolution’ in West Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also expands Jan Hogendorn's argument on the African initiatives involved in the expansion of groundnut production in colonial Northern Nigeria. In particular, it provides evidence of the key role of the emir of Kano…
Ribats and the Development of Plantations in the Sokoto Caliphate
Ribat, in context of Sokoto Caliphate, was a walled military settlement established for defending and protecting frontiers and settled agricultural hinterland of any major population center. This type of institution was well known in history of other Islamic societies.1 Indeed, ninth century has been identified as golden age of classic ribat construction in early Muslim world, and at this period several of these structures were established in Nor…
Fighting the Slave Trade
Reviewed by: Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies Mohammed Bashir Salau Diouf, Sylviane A. 2003. Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Athens: Ohio University Press. 242 pp. $ 26.95 (paper), $ 59.95 (cloth). Although scholarly literature on slavery and the slave trade in Africa has grown with increasing rapidity in the period following Philip Curtin's book The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969), few, if any, studies h…
The Role of Slave Labor in Groundnut Production in Early Colonial Kano
This article reinforces the interpretation of numerous scholars who have highlighted the role of slave labor in groundnut production during the ‘cash-crop revolution’ in West Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also expands Jan Hogendorn's argument on the African initiatives involved in the expansion of groundnut production in colonial Northern Nigeria. In particular, it provides evidence of the key role of the emir of Kano…
The West African Slave Plantation
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l
Africa in Global History
This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews . It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the pla…
Ribats and the Development of Plantations in the Sokoto Caliphate
Ribat, in context of Sokoto Caliphate, was a walled military settlement established for defending and protecting frontiers and settled agricultural hinterland of any major population center. This type of institution was well known in history of other Islamic societies.1 Indeed, ninth century has been identified as golden age of classic ribat construction in early Muslim world, and at this period several of these structures were established in Nor…
Fighting the Slave Trade
Reviewed by: Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies Mohammed Bashir Salau Diouf, Sylviane A. 2003. Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Athens: Ohio University Press. 242 pp. $ 26.95 (paper), $ 59.95 (cloth). Although scholarly literature on slavery and the slave trade in Africa has grown with increasing rapidity in the period following Philip Curtin's book The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969), few, if any, studies h…
Ribats and the Development of Plantations in the Sokoto Caliphate
Ribat, in context of Sokoto Caliphate, was a walled military settlement established for defending and protecting frontiers and settled agricultural hinterland of any major population center. This type of institution was well known in history of other Islamic societies.1 Indeed, ninth century has been identified as golden age of classic ribat construction in early Muslim world, and at this period several of these structures were established in Nor…
The Role of Slave Labor in Groundnut Production in Early Colonial Kano
This article reinforces the interpretation of numerous scholars who have highlighted the role of slave labor in groundnut production during the ‘cash-crop revolution’ in West Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also expands Jan Hogendorn's argument on the African initiatives involved in the expansion of groundnut production in colonial Northern Nigeria. In particular, it provides evidence of the key role of the emir of Kano…
The Management of Plantations in the Fanisau Complex
What was the nature of labor organization on the estates of Fanisau? Who determined the labor needs and set the activities of fieldworkers on a daily basis, and what incentives motivated such individuals? What were the principal crops of the plantations? How were crops planted and harvested? How were plantation yields used? How were commodities transported out of Fanisau for necessary disposal? What impact did the pattern of using plantation yiel…
General Conclusion
Although the shari’a and Islamic documents produced in the Sokoto Caliphate are silent on plantations, these structures have had an important place in the history of that state. This study has examined general developments in Kasar Kano to illustrate this point. The growth of the plantation sector in this region passed through two main phases. The first phase began during the reign of Burja in the medieval era, and lasted to the reign of Emir Sul…
The Development of the Fanisau Plantation Complex
Historical sources are not silent on the origin of Fanisau. According to one tradition collected by Yusuf Yunusa, the settlement was founded during Emir Ibrahim Dabo’s reign and was first settled by his “trusted slaves.”1 This view accords well with the assertion of the first European traveler, Clapperton, who visited Fanisau in the early 1820s, and who reported, “[After breakfast I accompanied Hat Salah, the sheikh’s agent, to the sansan, which,…
Sociocultural Life at Fanisau
The previous chapter emphasized the role of slaves in production, and the use of violence to extract surplus agricultural slave labor. In Fanisau, as elsewhere, violence was implicitly part of the slave system. Regardless of this fact, however, there were mechanisms of reward and incentive. Such nonviolent mechanisms are important if the system is to be productive. In recognition of this fact, estate owners employed noncoercive policies in order …
Slave Resistance, Control of Slave Labor, and Groundnut Production
F anisau and several other Kano Emirate societies produced mainly grain crops during the nineteenth century in part for consumption within Kano and in part for regional distribution either across the Sahara or southward toward the forest region of West Africa. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, Britain annexed Northern Nigeria and increasingly encouraged the broad region, including the Kano Emirate, to produce cotton and groundnuts fo…
Kasar Kano
The area in which Fanisau is located has a long history of consistent interaction with other settlements and peoples constituting a fraction of Kasar Kano. This chapter examines that larger historical setting. Thus, it starts by discussing the history of Kasar Kano before proceeding to explain early plantation developments in that region. 1 The chapter also examines the jihad and its impact on the plantation sector in what became the Kano Emirate…
The West African Slave Plantation
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l
Slavery in Kano Emirate of Sokoto Caliphate as Recounted
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and le…
Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria
Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, establish…
Slavery
This entry deals with the literature on slavery produced by anthropologists since the mid‐nineteenth century. Although some reference is made to works on the African American New World and other areas, the main focus is on important works on Africa written by scholars in the field in question since 1970. In highlighting more attention to important works on Africa written in recent times, the entry stresses that, despite the focus on varied themes…
Religion and Politics in Africa
Until the second half of the twentieth century, the role of religion in Africa was profoundly neglected. There were no university centers devoted to the study of religion in Africa; there was only a handful of scholars who focused primarily on religious studies and most of them were not historians; and there were relatively few serious empirical studies on Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religions. This paucity of rigorous research b…
The Sahara and North Africa in the Nineteenth Century
The autobiographies of Dorugu Kwage Adamu and Nicholas Said contain material of interest to the student of social and economic history in various parts of Africa. Yet scholars who have contributed to the literature on Dorugu, the literature on Said, the literature on slavery in Africa, the literature on trans-Saharan commerce, the literature on African representations of “others,” and the literature on the history of race in North Africa have not…
Africa in Global History
This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews . It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the pla…
Rage and Carnage in the Name of God
Journal Article Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria by Abiodun Alao Get access Abiodun Alao. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2022. 298 pp. $27.95. Mohammed Bashir Salau Mohammed Bashir Salau University of Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqad040, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqad040 Published: 19 June 2023 Article history Corrected…
Jennifer Lofkrantz. Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim West Africa
History (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works)