The Kano Chronicle

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4169441
AutoresH R Palmer (autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Páginas92-131
Data de publicação2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSudanese Memoirs (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429057847-69
OpenAlexW2797277082
ISBN9780429057847
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26

In Dauda's time (A.D. 1421-1438) a great Borllu prince called Daaachi (which simnply means ruler or king) arrives in Kano and settles with a large following.The circumstances make it very probable that Dagachi is Othman Kalnama.The various references in later reigns to Gobir, Zamfara, the Kworarafa, and Nupe are all chronologically correct approximnately.It seems therefore highly probable that, except for the very early kings, the Chronicle is roughly accurate.The question of who the race were, who are described as conquering the primitive inhabitants of Kano, is somewhat diffictult.On the other hand, the descriptioni of the Dalla stock seenms to leave no doubt that they were full-blooded negroes.Assuming thlat the meni of Dalla were of the tall negro type, ail interesting comparison might be made between them and the people of the Homnbori Hills whom M. Desplaglnes calls " Habbe " in Le Plateau Centrctl Nigrien.Roughly speaking, three very distinct influences have acted on the country which we call Hausaland-that is to say, the Emirates of Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Gobir, Daura, Zaria, anid the smaller states which were anciently called Unguru or Birami.These influeniees may be inidicated briefly by the words Semitic, Hamitic, and Negro.The Semitic influences have been, at all events, within the later historic period, indirect.The negro, on the other haiid, divided by most ethnologists into short-legged pronounced prognathous, and tall slightly prognathous varieties, is necessarily the starting-point of any inquiry.It is upon these two types of negro that the various invaders from north and east-whom we miay loosely termn Hamitic-have acted and produced the mixture of races and ideas which characterize HIausaland.There is considerable evidence that the negro, at a not very distant time, extended much further north than at present, and that it is only within the last thousand years that he has been pushed so far south.Various gtiesses have been made at the composition of the invading peoples from the north, and the part they played in the prehistoric history of the Sudan.There are, no doubt, strikino resemblances between the pre-dynastic customs of the inhabitants of Egypt and some modern Hausa customs: the shape of various agricultural implements is identical; "triads" of deities are commion to both.As yet, however, the data are iinsufficient to warrant aniy very definite theory being held-and the truth, if it is ever discovered, can only be traced by workil, back from the historic and known to the unknown.The often quoted story of Herodotus about the young Nasamonians, if true, means that in 500 B.C., the negro and negrito peoples were, as yet, not displaced from the Upper Niger The first historical kingdom of the West Sudan is that of Ghana-a Libyo-Berber civilisation which apparently flourished early in our era.M. Desplagnes recently excavated tombs or tumuli on the Niger

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