STATE AND ECONOMY IN KANO, C1894-1960: A STUDY OF COLONIAL DOMINATION
STATE AND ECONOMY IN KANO, C1894-1960: A STUDY OF COLONIAL DOMINATION
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1982-09
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BELLO, Sule
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This thesis is the study of the establishment, development and consolidation of British colonial domination in Kano from 1894 to I960. Its specific focus is the relationship between the colonial state and the colonial economy. The process of the establishment and consolidation of colonial domination as treated in this thesis falls into three broad phases. The first phase covers the decade immediately preceding the banquet, when the character of economic organisation. especially the system of production, operating in the Kano Emirate proved inimical to the development of capitalist economic interests, and consequently hostility developed between the Emirate aristocracy and the colonial trading companies. The second phase treats how this hostility led to the development of war fare between the Emirate and the British state in 1903 and how the formerly independent Emirate was brought under the political control of the British imperialist state. The third phase covers how, under the auspices of the colonial state, the colonial economy was created, developed and consolidated. It is argued that the distinguishing feature of colonialism was the entrenchment of British Capitalist control over the production and commerce of Kano society through the systematic destruction of the pre-existing economic system it could certainly be demonstrated that the struggle for independence and the consent transition to neo-colonialism constitutes the fourth stage in the development of colonial donation. This, however, does not for. part of the subject of this thesis.
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Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of philosophy of the Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,
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STATE AND ECONOMY IN KANO,, C1894- - 1960,, COLONIAL DOMINATION