What You Need To Know About The Ancient Hausa/Fulani Political Administration in Nigeria.

Before the coming of the white men and the birth of the nation popularly known today as Nigeria, the people of the Habes today called the Hausas dominated the Northern region and Southern Nigèr.

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They were blessed with great warriors like Queen amina, who led the people of Kaduna to many great battles and came back with victory.
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My focus is mainly on the administration of the ancient Hausa/Fulani pre-colonial administration.

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The Fulanis engaged the Hausas in a battle, which was led by the great Utman-Dan-Fadio.
The war was said to be political as well as religious. It was called the Jihad war. During the war, the forces of the Fulani's were too strong on the Hausas so the Hausas were defeated.
This resulted in Utman-Dan-Fadio taking over the leadership of their kingdom and imposing the Islamic religion system of worship to them.

He then created a system of administration called the Sharia law.He also created the Sokoto Caliphate which was under his rule. He then divided the Caliphate into Emirates which are ruled by an Emir, who report directly to Dan-fadio.
The Emirs are highly respected and most times autocratic. Although they have advisers they might choose not to listen to them. They rule according to the law of Sharia, where the ANKALI ( JUDGE) interpretes the law.
Some of the ministers of the Emirs are SAKIN RUWA, SAKIN FADA, MADAWAKI, etc.

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Their constitution were very rigid and their government was highly centralised, where anybody fails to carryout the law of Sharia and Emir might be killed.

To be continued
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