A Tropical Dependency
An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria

This 1905 work by outstanding journalist Flora Shaw examines in depth the pre-colonial history of Nigeria and Sudan.

Flora Shaw (Author)

9781108024921, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 December 2010

542 pages, 2 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.79 kg

Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard (1852–1929) was the first female reporter for The Times, and colonial editor from 1893 to 1900. She travelled widely, and wrote hundreds of articles promoting the British Empire and in favour of its expansion as a world power. She became very involved in South African politics as a friend of Cecil Rhodes, and in 1897 coined the name 'Nigeria' for the colony under the administration of the Royal Niger Company. In 1902 she married Sir Frederick Lugard, then High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria. In 1905 she published A Tropical Dependency, her most extensive work. Although expressing views which assume European superiority, she stressed the fact that the vast majority of the British Empire was not white, and the book is valuable for its information on pre-colonial northern Africa. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=shawfl

1. Introductory
2. Conquest of North Africa and Spain by the Arabs
3. Arab civilisation in Spain
4. The empire of 'The Two Shores'
5. African rule in Spain
6. Decline of Mohammedan power in Spain
7. Spanish Arabs in Africa
8. The Soudanese states
9. Negroland and the western Arabs
10. Berber and Black
11. The trade of Ghana
12. Morabite conquest of the Soudan
13. Ghana and Timbuctoo
14. The Mellestine
15. Mansa Musa
16. Ibn Batuta in Melle
17. Administration of the Mellestine
18. Meeting of eastern and western influence upon the Niger
19. Rise of the Songhay empire
20. Military conquest of Sonni Ali
21. Askia Mohammed Abou Bekr
22. Songhay under Askia the Great
23. Songhay under Askia the Great continued
24. The later Askias
25. Ancient connection of Haussaland with the valley of the Nile
26. The Pharaohs in Haussaland
27. The Haussa states
28. The domination of Kano
29. Haussaland to the end of the eighteenth century
30. Bornu
31. Condition of the Soudan at the end of the sixteenth century
32. The Moorish conquest
33. The Soudan under the Moors
34. The Soudan closed to the western world
35. Europe in West Africa
36. The European slave trade
37. England and France on the Lower Niger
38. The Royal Niger Company
39. Transfer of Niger Company's territories to the Crown
40. Origin of the Fulani
41. Rise of the Fulani in the Soudan
42. Sultan Bello
43. Northern Nigeria under Fulani rule
44. Slave-raiding
45. The establishment of British administration
46. Military occupation of the Southern Emirates and Bornu
47. Conquest and Sokoto and Kano
48. British policy in Northern Nigeria
49. Nigeria under British rule: slavery
50. Nigeria under British rule: taxation
51. Nigeria under British rule: justice and general re-organisation
52. Economic resources of Northern Nigeria
53. The development of trade
Index.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]