The Incorporation of Muslim Elites into the Colonial Administrative Systems of Sierra Leone, The Gambia and the Gold Coast

Bibliographic Data

ID6085828
AuthorsDavid E Skinner, David Skinner (0000-0002-8169-3958, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume29
Issue1
Pages91-108
Publication date2009-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInstitute of Muslim Minority Affairs Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-6952 • E-ISSN: 1469-9591
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13602000902726814
OpenAlexW2045169979
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This article focuses on relations between British colonial administrations in three West Africa territories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sierra Leone, the Gambia and the Gold Coast were centers of trade organized by Muslim merchants and places of Muslim settlement before the British arrived and the subsequent administrations developed policies and programs which incorporated Muslim communities into the colonial system. The British adapted the existing economic, political and religious institutions to the policy of indirect rule, financially supported these institutions and successfully made alliances with Muslim elites. Colonial policies and programs contributed to the strengthening of Islamic communities throughout the colonial era

Archaeology · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Gold coast · Islam · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Sierra leone · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law

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