January first 2014, Nigeria became one hundred years after the popular
1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates by Sir
Fredrick Lord Lugard. The centenary commemoration of the Nigerian State
generated very serious scholarly attention than any other issues in the
annals of Nigerian history. While scholars channels energy in writing on the
1914 episode or epoch, very little attention have been given to the 1804
Jihad of Sheikh Shehu Usman Danfodiyo which brought the Sokoto
Caliphate in to existence, and which was at the same time the headquarters
of the Northern Nigerian region whose historical union with the southern
protectorate occurred in 1914. Though some scholars uses the Jihad as a
background to the discussion on amalgamation, the phenomenon is not given
sufficient attention pointing its historical relevance to the emergence of
Nigerian State in the centenary commemoration programme. The attempt
to bridge this emerging lacuna in contemporary Nigerian historiography
serves as the basis and the foremost objective of this paper. The paper
discovers that the Jihad of Shehu Usman Danfodiyo in 1804, in Hausa land
created the caliphate system that the British came to formalized, and the
system, which still condition the state of affairs in modern Nigeria. Arising
from this background, the essay upholds that the background history of
the caliphate demands serious attention and critical reflection in 2014
given the historical relevance of the caliphate in the foundation of modern
Nigerian state.
Odeh, G. (2020). The Establishment of the Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate: An inquest into the Background History of the 1804 Jihad in Hausa Land, 210 years After. Afribary. Retrieved from https://tracking.afribary.com/works/6-dr-arshadmunirlagharigodwinonuhodeh
Odeh, Godwin Onuh "The Establishment of the Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate: An inquest into the Background History of the 1804 Jihad in Hausa Land, 210 years After" Afribary. Afribary, 02 Aug. 2020, https://tracking.afribary.com/works/6-dr-arshadmunirlagharigodwinonuhodeh. Accessed 06 Nov. 2024.
Odeh, Godwin Onuh . "The Establishment of the Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate: An inquest into the Background History of the 1804 Jihad in Hausa Land, 210 years After". Afribary, Afribary, 02 Aug. 2020. Web. 06 Nov. 2024. < https://tracking.afribary.com/works/6-dr-arshadmunirlagharigodwinonuhodeh >.
Odeh, Godwin Onuh . "The Establishment of the Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate: An inquest into the Background History of the 1804 Jihad in Hausa Land, 210 years After" Afribary (2020). Accessed November 06, 2024. https://tracking.afribary.com/works/6-dr-arshadmunirlagharigodwinonuhodeh