A History of Borno : Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1849044740
ISBN-13
9781849044745
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Imprint
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 23rd, 2017
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
518 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.50 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
African history
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A history of an ancient Sahelian kingdom whose hinterland is now being laid waste by the Boko Haram insurgency.
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 throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. 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''. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries - its territorial integrity - which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.
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