Azaghvana E-Book 2003 - Flipbook - Page 8
PART TWO
KEY SOURCES TOWARDS A SHARED SUBREGIONAL PAST
Introduction
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Chapter 2.1 Between the pre-colonial Wandala and the DGB sites
Introduction
The role of Kirawa in early written sources
The contemporaneity of the DGB sites
Mentions of hill areas by Leo Africanus
Tribute arrangements and the link to slave raiding in the hills
The threat of pre-colonial slave raiding according to Dghweɗe oral accounts
The pre-colonial boundary between Fulbe and Wandala according to oral
accounts
The roots of the sun and the moon legend
The ethnoarchaeological potential of the tale
Katala-Wandala of the hills
Conclusion
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Chapter 2.2 Unsettling colonial years
Introduction
Coming under German and British rule
Readjustments under British Mandateship
The Dghweɗe version of Hamman Yaji's arrest and death
Mountain versus Plain: pagan reorganisation and the issue of selfgovernance
The issue of 'Pagan Reorganisation'
Western education for the development of a new colonial local elite
The failure of the 1950s resettlement scheme
The file 'Gwoza Terracing' – Stanhope White and the stone wall terraces of
Ghwa'a
Limankara and Disa become the newly planned resettlement area
The killing of lawan Buba – the 'Gwoza Affair'
Taɗa Nzige's oral account of the 'Gwoza Affair'
The process of Christianity
Two Plebiscites on the route to independence
Conclusion
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PART THREE
DGHWEƊE ORAL HISTORY RETOLD
Introduction
Chapter 3.1 Names and places
Introduction
Two colonial sources
Moisel's (1913) view of the Gwoza hills
Dghweɗe settlement units according to captain Lewis (1925)
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