Colonial Itineraries
Muhammadu Dikko's Metropolitan Adventures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moses Ochonu (0000-0003-1934-9336, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-200 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853720000328 |
| OpenAlex | W3047710370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
In 1921 and 1924 Muhammadu Dikko, the emir of Katsina, traveled to Britain on a sightseeing trip, becoming the first emir or chief from Northern Nigeria to visit the British imperial metropole. This article analyzes the colonial relationship that put Dikko in the colonizers’ orbit and favor and paved the way for him to embark on the trips, the colonial logistics and networks that facilitated the journeys, Dikko's experiences and adventures in Britain, and, most importantly, his perspectives on British society, institutions, goods, and forms of leisure. I argue that Dikko, though constrained by serving as a prop in a colonial performance of power, used travel to Britain as a platform to advance metropolitan modernity as an aspirational if distant model of socioeconomic advancement and to give his peers and subjects in Northern Nigeria a textual reference for navigating colonial culture in relation to their own natal Islamo-Hausa cultural norms
Adventure · Archaeology · Art history · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Hausa · Metropolitan area · Modernity · Political science · Power (physics · Relation (database · Tourism · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Imperial Eyes
Ornamentalism
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa
The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa
Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order
Africans in Britain
Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
Colonialism and Culture
Imperial Eyes
Introduction. Travel, colonialism and encounters with the Maghreb
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
The Royal Tour of 1901 and the Construction of an Imperial Identity in South Africa
Invisible Occidentalism
Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
Islam and Colonialism
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545–1625
African perceptions of Europeans in the early period of Portuguese expeditions to West Africa
African Loyalism and Its Discontents
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
Cars Out of Place
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
On Imperial Spectacle
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |