The Yoruba frontier : a regional history of community formation, experience, and changes in West Africa / Aribidesi Usman.

Author: Usman, Aribidesi.

Imprint:Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2012.

Descriptionxix, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Note:"This book combines a series of previously published and unpublished papers and field notes."

Note:Background to the study of precolonial northern Yoruba -- The making of the Yoruba frontier: the pioneers -- Second wave: non-autochthonous migrant settlers -- The Yoruba frontier in the Age of the Empire, ca. 1500-1750 -- The Yoruba frontier in the Age of Revolution, ca. 1750-1900 -- Nineteenth-century missionary activities, resettlements, and merger agitation -- Conclusions: the place of northern Yoruba in African frontier studies.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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