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Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule * BY MUHAMMAD S. UMAR.

This is one of the most important books to have been written on Muslims living in colonial northern Nigeria. It analyses, in the main very sympathetically, how some of the elite—emirs, judges, ulema and the Western-educated—all came to justify in their writings their living and working as Muslims under Christian rule in the years between 1903 and 1945. The book would have been better reviewed by a Nigerian scholar, but few copies have reached northern Nigeria; the book costs £70 in London, $133 in Boston and in Kaduna the huge sum of at least 17,500 naira—were it ever to be on sale there. (Sad…