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A History of Tuareg Migration from Niger Republic To Sokoto: 1900-1985
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The migration of races, tribes and ethnic groups across West Africa is a vital ingredient in the development of the sub-region before and after colonialism. The Tuareg factor though essential in the process, is predominantly projected in a negative light arising partly from their misrepresentation in history as principally warmongers and bandits.
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The advent of colonialism, largely seen as a harbinger of civilization and development to the underdeveloped world, has led to the suppression of the indigenous mechanics in the continued development of the sub-region in favour of colonial innovations.
It is therefore widely held, albeit hypothetically, that centers covered by railroad and engaged in export crops production developed fast while those that were not stagnated; and that skilled labour prospered while the unskilled and artisans were impoverished. But this is not always the case, especially with regard to Sokoto town and its northern frontier in northern Nigeria which was neither on the railroad nor took part in export crops production.
This book, which derives wholly from my PhD. thesis that was completed in 2002, is an attempt to explain how the Nigerian Tuareg migrants, and Sokoto town resiliently and reciprocally exploited the opportunities in the colonial situation, to prosper, up to the post-colonial period, as one aspect of indigenous mechanics in the continued development of Sokoto.
Author: Muhammad Kwaire
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424 pages