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The diary of Hamman Yaji : chronicle of a West African Muslim ruler

Title
The diary of Hamman Yaji : chronicle of a West African Muslim ruler / edited and introduced by James H. Vaughan and Anthony H.M. Kirk-Greene.
Author
Yaji, Hamman.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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  • Vaughan, James H., 1927-2018.
  • Kirk-Greene, A. H. M. (Anthony Hamilton Millard)
Description
xv, 162 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  • In August 1927, British colonial authorities arrested Hamman Yaji, Emir of Madagali, an infamous slave trader who had terrorized the neighboring montagnard populations of the Northern Cameroons and bedeviled the colonial administrations of three nations. His diary was seized and soon became a fabled document in northern Nigerian history. Written in Arabic and translated into English by a British colonial official, the diary chronicles Hamman Yaji's daily activities between 1912 and 1927.
  • He recorded his daily routine - where he traveled, his slaving raids and slave-trading activities, visitors and gifts received, his relations with friends and family and with the British administration, and his practice of Islam.
  • This rare and remarkable document, made accessible to scholars for the first time since its composition more than seventy-five years ago, is enhanced by a substantial introduction that places Hamman Yaji in historical and cultural perspective and describes the diary's discovery and translation, and its significance for British colonial and West African history.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-157) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Preface / James H. Vaughan -- 1. The Context / James H. Vaughan -- 2. The View from Yola: 1927 / Anthony H. M. Kirk-Greene -- 3. The History of the Diary / Anthony H. M. Kirk-Greene -- 4. Captain L. N. Reed's Introduction [1927] -- 5. The Diary of Hamman Yaji, Ex-District Head of Madagali -- 6. The Later History of the Diary: An Archival and Autobiographical Note / Anthony H. M. Kirk-Greene.
ISBN
0253362067 (alk. paper)
LCCN
94027840
OCLC
  • 30779238
  • ocm30779238
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries