TY - BOOK ID - 142148735 TI - Government in Zazzau 1800–1950 AU - Smith, Michael Garfield AU - International African Institute AU - Oxford University Press PY - 1960 PB - London Oxford University Press for International African Institute DB - UniCat KW - Hausa (African people) KW - Nigeria [Northern ] KW - Political anthropology KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142148735 AB - This is a details study of the successive forms of government in the Hausa chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria. It presents a comparative analysis of the political organization and development of Zaria under successive Habe, Fulani and British suzerains. The book tackles the problems of political history and theory from an anthropological point of view, distinguishing governmental forms, functions and modes, as well as elucidating necessary regularities within the processes of political change. ER -