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| Title: | Etsu Nupe Muhamadu and the British, 1900-1916 |
| Author: | Ubah, C.N. |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Periodical: | Ikenga: Journal of African Studies |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 36-45 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Northern Nigeria United Kingdom |
| Subjects: | colonialism Nupe polity |
| Abstract: | One of the principal characters in the history of British occupation and administration of Northern Nigeria in the first two decades of the present century was Muhammadu, Makun Bida and later Etsu or Emir of Nupe. What at present is known about Muhammadu is that he was installed Etsu Nupe after the Royal Niger Company's military expedition against that emirate in 1897, that he was later dispossessed by Etsu Abubakar whom the Company's forces had dethroned, and that he was finally restored by the Lugard administration following the Anglo-Nupe war of 1901. The Makun occupied the Nupe emirship in the critical years of British administration during which profound social and administrative transformation took place. This paper is an attempt to fill part of the existing gaps in the understanding of modern Nupe. First, Muhammadu is presented as a diplomat whose skilful efforts to avert the Anglo-Nupe war of 1901 were thwarted by men and circumstances beyond his control. In the second place, an attempt is made to demonstrate that as an emir he recognized the limits of his power in the context of a colonial regime, a situation which substantially accounted for the relative facility with which colonial innovations were introduced into Nupe. Notes. |