The Igbo-Igala Borderland: Religion and Social Control in Indigenous African Colonialism

by Austin J. Shelton

This ethno-historical survey of the northern Nsukka borderland examines particularly one method of African colonial control. When, in the late eighteenth century, the Igala conquered the indigenous Igbo, they gained and held social control through monopoly of certain religious positions. However, despite conscious effort to maintain Igala religious lineages, these gradually became Igbonized. In delineating this religious-social control, Professor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873950828
• ISBN13: 9780873950824
• Release Date: June 1971
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.