History & Governance/ Pre-Colonial Slavery & Colonial Legal History
Sarakunan Majalisa (Council of State) (Hausa Presence in the Waters of the Niger)
7records·5 fields·csv·1.7 KB·West Africa, tracking the urban administrative wards, palace gates, and decentralized geographic networks of mainland districts and river islands along the Niger basin within the Yauri Emirate (modern LGAs of Yauri, Ngaski, and Shanga in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria)—explicitly mapping the historic transfer of extensive southern and western mainland fief domains into the Kontagora Emirate under British colonial border adjustments.·c. 1411 A.D. – 1960 A.D.
A structured institutional, administrative, and legal-geography dataset cataloging the hierarchical rank, socio-political functions, territorial fief distributions, and bureaucratic notes defining the 4 supreme ministers of the Council of State (Sarakunan Majalisa) within the Yauri Kingdom and Emirate.
Source & Methodology
Extracted from primary palace administrative registers, traditional customary court records, colonial anthropological data sheets, and oral-historical interviews with titled council elders systemized by editors Prof. A.I. Yandaki, Prof. H.M. Maishanu, and Prof. M.U. Bunza in their definitive research volume "Hausa Presence in the Waters of the Niger: A History of Yauri Kingdom from 1411 up to its Emirate Status".
Related Project
project / historical-political-western-sahel →Schema — 5 fields
Sarakunan MajalisaCouncil of StatePolitical StructuresFief SystemsUbandawaki CavalryKingmakersHandawaki CourtsGaladima IntelligenceYan Sarki PrincesMaginga TributesKofa GatesGungawa RepresentativesAbsentee FiefholdersDamisa AgentsPrecolonial SlaveryPenal EnslavementTax ExtractionWitchcraft AdjudicationInter-Group BrokerageMahdi Adamu