Thomas Hodgkin
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Writer. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; Lecturer in the Government of New States, University of Oxford, 1965β70. Author of Nationalism in Colonial Africa and others.
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Usman dan Fodio was a Fulani mystic, philosopher, and revolutionary reformer who, in a jihad (holy war) between 1804 and 1808, created a new Muslim state, the Fulani empire, in what is now northern Nigeria. Usman was born in the Hausa state of Gobir, in what is now northwestern Nigeria. His father,β¦
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