Ebook: Borno in the Rabih Years 1893 - 1901: The Rise and Crash of a Predatory State

The second volume of the “Borno Sahara and Sudan Series” is the outcome of a Ph.D. thesis written at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria under the direction of J.F. Ade Ajayi, emeritus professor of history. This most recent analysis of the most turbulent period in the entire history of Borno – as this was the only time in the long and chequered history of Borno under both the Sayfawa and al-Kanemi dynasties when the state was taken over by a foreign invader – focuses not only on Rabih but provides a sensitive and broadly researched survey of the political and socio-economic situation in Borno towards the end of the nineteenth century. This study is a significant and all-embracing reflection on part of Borno’s history that has for too long been shrouded in the veil of ‘careful’ recollections. – – About the author: Dr. Kyari Mohammed is Associate Professor of History, and currently doubles as the Director of the School of General Studies and Dean of the School of Management and Information Technology at the Federal University of Technology, Yola / Nigeria.