The Mecca Pilgrimage By West African Pastoral Nomads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4253364 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J S Birks (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-58 |
| Publication date | 1977-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00014476 |
| OpenAlex | W2138306461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 5 |
Each dry season many Um Borroro or nomadic Fulani set off eastwards to Mecca. They are some of the 5,000 or so West Africans who make the pilgrimage (the haj) each year by travelling along the savannas through Cameroun, Chad, and the Sudan.1 About four-fifths of them come from what is generally called Hausaland and Bornu in Nigeria and Niger, but some pilgrims from all the West African savanna countries travel overland.2 Although they comprise only about six per cent of the total arriving in Mecca from West Africa (the majority come by air and sea), they represent an important relict movement which earlier this century involved more than 15,000 migrants per annum.3
Ancient history · Archaeology · Delta · Ethnology · Geography · Niger delta · Pilgrimage · Socioeconomics · Sociology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2020 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |