Table of Contents

1. Introductory; 2. Conquest of North Africa and Spain by the Arabs; 3. Arab civilisation in Spain; 4. The empire of 'The Two Shores'; 5. African rule in Spain; 6. Decline of Mohammedan power in Spain; 7. Spanish Arabs in Africa; 8. The Soudanese states; 9. Negroland and the western Arabs; 10. Berber and Black; 11. The trade of Ghana; 12. Morabite conquest of the Soudan; 13. Ghana and Timbuctoo; 14. The Mellestine; 15. Mansa Musa; 16. Ibn Batuta in Melle; 17. Administration of the Mellestine; 18. Meeting of eastern and western influence upon the Niger; 19. Rise of the Songhay empire; 20. Military conquest of Sonni Ali; 21. Askia Mohammed Abou Bekr; 22. Songhay under Askia the Great; 23. Songhay under Askia the Great continued; 24. The later Askias; 25. Ancient connection of Haussaland with the valley of the Nile; 26. The Pharaohs in Haussaland; 27. The Haussa states; 28. The domination of Kano; 29. Haussaland to the end of the eighteenth century; 30. Bornu; 31. Condition of the Soudan at the end of the sixteenth century; 32. The Moorish conquest; 33. The Soudan under the Moors; 34. The Soudan closed to the western world; 35. Europe in West Africa; 36. The European slave trade; 37. England and France on the Lower Niger; 38. The Royal Niger Company; 39. Transfer of Niger Company's territories to the Crown; 40. Origin of the Fulani; 41. Rise of the Fulani in the Soudan; 42. Sultan Bello; 43. Northern Nigeria under Fulani rule; 44. Slave-raiding; 45. The establishment of British administration; 46. Military occupation of the Southern Emirates and Bornu; 47. Conquest and Sokoto and Kano; 48. British policy in Northern Nigeria; 49. Nigeria under British rule: slavery; 50. Nigeria under British rule: taxation; 51. Nigeria under British rule: justice and general re-organisation; 52. Economic resources of Northern Nigeria; 53. The development of trade; Index.

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This 1905 work by outstanding journalist Flora Shaw examines in depth the pre-colonial history of Nigeria and Sudan.