| #15214999 in Books | 2010-09-30 | Original language:English | 9.21 x.47 x6.10l, | File type: PDF | 210 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Nigeria, Colonialism, Islam and Slavery|By William Gawthrop|Tainted Legacy: Islam, Colonialism and Slavery in Northern Nigeria, by Yusufu Turaki.
Yusufu Turaki provides an overview of the background forces influencing the present condition of Nigeria: the strategic expansion of Islam into Nigeria, the operational influence of British Colonial rule which tended to adv|About the Author|He is director of the Centre for the Study of Religion, Church and Society (CRCS). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from Boston University, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Yale Divinity School. He was the General Secretary of the Eva
In recent years violent attacks by Muslims in Nigeria have left thousands of Christians dead. This important study traces the origins of this crisis to the historical impact of Islam on Northern Nigeria. The author explores Islamic colonialism and slavery in West Africa and how their malign influence was entrenched by the British colonial administration. He explains how they have bequeathed a tainted legacy of discrimination and cruelty to the Christians of Northern Nige...
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