A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern NigeriaFlora 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 |
Contents
BY | 1 |
MORABITE CONQUEST OF THE SOUDAN | 107 |
MANSA MUSA | 122 |
IBN BATUTA IN MELLE | 129 |
THE MELLESTINE XVII ADMINISTRATION OF THE MELLESTINE | 142 |
MEETING OF EASTERN AND WESTERN INFLUENCE UPON THE NIGER | 153 |
RISE OF THE SONGHAY EMPIRE | 163 |
MILITARY CONQUESTS OF SONNI | 174 |
EUROPE IN WEST AFRICA | 322 |
THE EUROPEAN SLAVE TRADE | 333 |
ENGLAND AND FRANCE ON THE LOWER NIGER | 348 |
THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY | 356 |
TRANSFER OF NIGER COMPANYS TERRITORIES TO THE CROWN | 366 |
ORIGIN OF THE FULANI | 373 |
RISE OF THE FULANI IN THE SOUDAN PAGE 258 268 | 381 |
SULTAN BELLO | 390 |
ASKIA MOHAMMED ABOU BEKR | 181 |
SONGHAY UNDER ASKIA THE GREAT | 190 |
SONGHAY UNDER ASKIA THE GREAT continued | 199 |
THE LATER ASKIAS | 211 |
ANCIENT CONNECTION OF HAUSSALAND VALLEY OF THE NILE | 218 |
THE PHARAOHS IN HAUSSALAND | 227 |
THE HAUSSA STATES | 236 |
HAUSSALAND TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CEN TURY | 258 |
BORNU | 268 |
CONDITION OF THE SOUDAN AT THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY | 282 |
THE MOORISH CONQUEST | 296 |
174 | 303 |
THE SOUDAN UNDER THE MOORS | 306 |
THE SOUDAN CLOSED TO THE WESTERN World | 315 |
NORTHERN NIGERIA UNDER FULANI RULE | 399 |
SLAVERAIDING | 408 |
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITISH ADMINISTRATION 390 399 | 417 |
AND BORNU | 426 |
CONQUEST of SokOTO AND KANO | 438 |
BRITISH POLICY IN NORTHERN Nigeria | 449 |
SLAVERY | 460 |
TAXATION | 466 |
JUSTICE AND GENE | 476 |
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