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Politics And Society In Nigeria's Middle Belt

Borgu and the Emergence of a Political Identity

ISBN-13: 9781592210961

Contributor(s): Julius O Ihonvbere

Subject: Politics & Government

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 01-11-2003

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£24.95

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About the book

The European partition of Africa at the end of the nineteenth century produced enduring geo-political changes, with various ethnic groups permanently separated into different political formations. Borgu was just one of the affected areas, dived by the French and British in 1894 and 1898. Now independent after years of British rule, the Nigerian Borgu is here examined in thorough detail, from earliest times to now. The book focuses on the new emergence of a political identity in the Borgu, as well as its dynasties, economic growth and relations with the Yoruba.