This history of the African kingdom that included the famous trans-Saharan trading city of Kano is the third in the late M. G. Smith's series of histories of the Hausa-Fulani kingdoms in West Africa. Combining the approaches of social anthropology & history, Smith provides a fascinating account of ...
This history of the African kingdom that included the famous trans-Saharan trading city of Kano is the third in the late M. G. Smith's series of histories of the Hausa-Fulani kingdoms in West Africa. Combining the approaches of social anthropology & history, Smith provides a fascinating account of this kingdom's complex political & administrative organization from medieval times to the threshold of Nigerian independence.