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Ismaila A sabo Hadejia

Ismaila A sabo Hadejia
(1)Wannan dai shine Hotona, wadda Idonku yake kallona. (2) Bayan na tafi gun Sarkina, zaku tuna ni watan wata rana. (3) In wani yayi kiran sunana, sai ku cane Allah yaji kaina. (4) Koda zakuyi jimamina, sai ku yimin addu'ah bayana. Marigayi Aliyu Akilu.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

HADEJIA TO DATE!

Hadejia A yau! Hadejia, town and traditional emirate,
eastern Jigawa state, northern Nigeria. It lies
on the northern bank of the Hadejia River (a
seasonal tributary of the Komadugu Yobe,
which flows into Lake Chad). The emirate’s
savanna area originally included Hadejia and
six other small Hausa kingdoms that paid
tribute to the kingdom of Bornu.



About 1805, Umaru, a Fulani leader who held the
title sarkin Fulanin Hadejia,
pledged allegiance to the Fulani jihad (holy
war) leader, Usman dan Fodio.


Umaru's brother and successor, Emir Sambo
(reign 1808–45), officially founded the Hadejia
emirate in 1808, moved his headquarters to
Hadejia town, established a market, and
began to consolidate Fulani rule over the
small neighbouring Hausa kingdoms.


Emir Buhari (reigned
1848–50, 1851–63) renounced Hadejia’s
allegiance to the Fulani sultanate centred at
Sokoto in 1851, raided the nearby emirates
of Kano, Katagum, Gumel, Bedde, and
Jama’are, and enlarged his own emirate.

Hadejia was brought back into the Fulani
empire after Buhari’s death, but wars with
neighbouring Gumel continued until 1872.

In 1906 the British installed an emir, Haruna, (Maikaramba)
and incorporated the emirate into Kano
province.
The emirate became part of newly
created Jigawa state in 1991.


The town is now a market centre handling
cotton, millet, sorghum, fish, and the rice
grown in the river valley. It serves as an
important collecting point for peanuts
(groundnuts), an export crop. Cattle, goats,
guinea fowl, sheep, and donkeys are kept by
the local Hausa and Fulani peoples.
Several
small lime industries exist in scattered parts
of the area. Hadejia town is located on the
secondary highway between Gumel and
Nguru, which links it to the main highway at
Kano and to the railway at Kano and Nguru.
Pop. (2006) local government area, 105,628.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

THE 19TH CENTURY JIHAD AND ESTABLISHMENT OF HADEJIA EMIRATE (PAGE 2)

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The new ideas generated as a result of their policies had brought together people of diverse (descent) linguistic and occupational groups under one
umbrella. Although ever since their migration into Hausa land, some fulani Jihadists in due course became confidants and advisers to some Hausa rulers, there was a strong and persistent tendency among the Jihadists of avoiding close association with HABE SARAKUNA, either because of
the fear or being contaminated with Illigally acquired wealth or because most of the Habe palaces remained a stronghold of various traditional cultssuch as BORI Cult.




This made the devoted Ulamas keep their distance from the rulers (sarakuna). It was the relationship between these two classes the Ulamas and the Habe rulers that
eventually led to the outbreak of the Jihad in Hausa land at the beginning of the 19th Century.
The condition of Hausa society at the eve of Jihad was anything but fair, especially the socio-economic system.




Virtually all the rulers were norminal Muslims and therefore hardly enforced the Sharia system. At the same time enforced excessive taxation. Yet in the midst of the suffering and hardship, the rulers continued to be corrupt, unjust and indifferent to the plight of the oppressed.




There seem to be some confusion as regards the exact time when the fulani Jihadists first came and established their wet-season camps in the plentiful grazing land of the Auyo/Hadejia riverrine savannah land, the confusion is due to the multiple causes of Nomadic Fulani movements in the
Nigerian Savannah in general and the Hadejia area in particular. H.M. Brice Smith, has placed the coming of the Fulani into the Hadejia area at themiddle or late 1700 A.D.




But according to A. Abdu Maigari, the Fulani came to Hadejia area from Machina in Borno during the 15th Century.
An early Fulani settler in Hadejia who became very influential in one Hardo Abdure dan Jamdoyji, wealthy Fulani who traced his Origin to Machina in Borno. Hardo Abdure established his dry season camp in Hadejia at Jarmari during the early 18th Century.
Jarmari is located few kilometres from Hadejia town. As the case will all Nomadic Fulani camps the one established by Hardo Abdure at Jarmari was not meant to be permanent abode.





Rather it was ment to serve the
purpose of their seasonal movements.
HADEJIA A YAU!