The 'Middle Belt' Historiography of Resistance in Nigeria - Samaila Suleiman*.
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The early part of the century saw the influx of Arabic and English books, and most importantly, the publication of colonial ethnographic and anthropological surveys, which set the phase for the incorporation of local histories into the universe of Western hegemonic knowledge production. [...] A number of research institutions in Europe and Africa as well as anthropologists were deployed to supervise the research.30 The result was the publication of monographs on ethnic minorities in the Middle Belt: Pagan Peoples of the Central Area of Northern Nigeria; People of the Middle Nigeria Region of Northern Nigeria; Peoples of the Plateau Area of Northern Nigeria, among others. [...] The methodological and conceptual approaches of each succeeding generation of observers, and their selection of certain types of subject material to the exclusion of others,33 had the cumulative effect of amplifying the view of the Middle Belt as 'marginalia' - the denigration of the minorities to the margins of Nigerian historiography.34 The intertextuality between the discourse of Muslim writers. [...] In the process of incorporation before 1940, British administration subordinated many Middle Belt groups into the Islamic society'.65 Logam asserts that the internal colonialism perpetuated by Islamic society under the supervision of the British was responsible for the activation of minorities' consciousness and the rise of the Middle Belt movement.66 This book represents the Magnum Opus of Middle. [...] Kukah, a Roman Catholic Priest, examines the methods used in the entrenchment of Hausa-Fulani hegemony and the manipulation of religion for political purposes in northern Nigeria.68 29Suleiman: The 'Middle Belt' Historiography of Resistance in Nigeria This work represents another case of the deployment of the narrative of internal colonialism from the vantage point of religion.