TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ochonu,Moses E.
TI  - Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria
SN  - 9780253011657
AV  - DT515 .C656 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Bloomington, IN
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Middle belt (Nigeria)
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Middle Belt
KW  - Hausa (African people)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Fula (African people)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Understanding "Native Alien" Subcolonialism and Its Legacies; 1 The Hausa-Caliphate Imaginary and Ideological Foundations of Proxy Colonialism; 2 Zazzau and Southern Kaduna in Precolonial and Colonial Times; 3 Emirate Maneuvers and "Pagan" Resistance in the Plateau-Nasarawa Basin; 4 Hausa Colonial Agency in the Benue Valley; 5 Fulani Expansion and Subcolonial Rule in Early Colonial Adamawa Province; 6 Non-Muslim Revolt against Fulani Rule in Adamawa; 7 Middle Belt Self-Determination and Caliphate Political Resurgence in the Transition to National IndependenceConclusion: Subcolonialism, Ethnicity, and Memory; Chronology; Glossary; A; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; W; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim civilization rather than carriers of the white man's burden. Stressing that this type of Indirect Rule violated its primary rationale, Colonialism by Proxy traces contemporary violent struggles to the legacy of the dynamics of power and the charged atmosphere of
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