Marked Sokoto

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Sokoto Caliphate

Usman dan Fodio led a jihad from 1804 that united the Hausa states into the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest states in 19th-century Africa. His daughter Nana Asma’u wrote poetry and set up schools for women.

Place
Sokoto · Kano · GwanduAfrica
Laid out as
A beliefA faith or a way of thinking, from its central idea outwards to its practice and its spread.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IUsman dan Fodio
  2. IIThe jihad
  3. IIIRuling a caliphate
  4. IVNana Asma’u and the Yan Taru
  5. VBooks and scholars
  6. VIThe British conquest

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Usman dan Fodio
  • Nana Asma’u
  • Muhammad Bello

Objects

  • Nana Asma’u’s poems
  • Manuscripts from Sokoto

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1804 to 1903. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?