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WEBThis book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released ‘migrated archives’.
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WEBA History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. Vincent Hiribarren. Oxford University Press, 2017 - History - 311 pages. Borno (in northeast Nigeria)...
A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State
WEBApr 1, 2017 · This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'.
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- Author: Vincent Hiribarren
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WEBRather than dealing with the distant past, or with Boko Haram, Hiribaren’s book seeks instead to ‘establish the history of the spatial framework of Borno’ (p. 3). He claims that under the Shehus of the al-Kanemi dynasty, Borno had a strong sense of territoriality which would be taken over, recycled, and perhaps fossilised, by the British ...
WEBBorno as an organised state goes back to the eighth century. Legend takes it back further, as Bahr Nuh (the Sea of Noah) is another name for Lake Chad. It was the oldest state in Sub-Saharan Africa, a template for those which emerged later, and long a …
A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State
WEBThis timely book is first and foremost a historical and geopolitical story of borders. And it is a must for readers willing to understand the legacy of the Borno Empire and the role of porous (yet not-so artificial) borders in the framing of the narratives of Boko Haram’s contemporary jihad.
- Reviews: 5
- Author: Vincent Hiribarren
BORNU: TERRITORIAL AND CULTURAL ENDURANCE IN NIGERIA - A History …
WEBNov 29, 2019 · BORNU: TERRITORIAL AND CULTURAL ENDURANCE IN NIGERIA - A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. By Vincent Hiribarren. London: Hurst & Co., 2017. Pp. 320. £50.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781849044745). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2019. OGHENETOJA OKOH. Article. Metrics.
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WEBMay 30, 2018 · This is a history of Borno, the long-established African kingdom in northeastern Nigeria, from circa 1380 to 1893. The book is not about the complexities of Borno’s history since its foundation, as the title proclaims, but about the evolutions of its boundaries and their consequences.
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WEBFeb 17, 2017 · Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned through...
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WEBBuy a cheap copy of A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan... book by Vincent Hiribarren. Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once...