(Department of History, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-12-18) Mejida, Maiyaki M.
Events with farreaching
consequences
made the nineteenth
century history of
Nigeria quite intriguing.
There were struggles for
political control or
commercial supremacy;
Islamic and Christian
Missionary movements
were common. Some of
these events destabilised
the erstwhile pre-nineteenth
century
societies while others
effected gradual changes in the people's patterns of life This
study examined one of
the events, the jihad,
which greatly affected the
socio-political history of not only the
confluence area but the
entire Northern Nigeria.
Specific attention was
given to the socioeffected