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Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors.(Review)
Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. By Ann O'Hear. (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. x, 338. $65.00.)
In this volume, the author critically examines patterns of resistance and accommodation among slaves and their successors in Ilorin, a Nigerian city now in Kwara State. Formerly a predominantly Yoruba town, Ilorin is now a multiethnic city, harboring, among others, Hausa and Fulani settlers from northern Nigeria. "The city of Ilorin, grew in importance in the early nineteenth century as a frontier emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate (in Northern Nigeria), and amassed a large population of slaves. Control of this slave population was of enormous importance to the city elite" (188). Historically,…
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