When, where and under what circumstances was your text composed? What trajectories or trends in African history was it a part of? What impacts did it have upon subsequent events? What are the most distinctive, interesting, revealing or perplexing passages in the text? How does it compare with other texts from the course?

Ahmad Baba group:

1. "Ahmad Baba" in Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition (library reference)

2. John O. Hunwick, "A New Source for the Biography of Ahmad Baba al-Tinbukti (1556-1627)" (skip Arabic text, obviously)

3. Humphrey Fisher, Slavery in Muslim Black Africa Ch. 1 and 3 (loan)

4. Humphrey Fisher, Slavery in Muslim Black Africa Ch. 1, 5 and 7 (loan)

5. John Ralph Willis, "The Ideology of Enslavement in Islam" in Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa (loan)

6. Nehemia Levtzion, "Slavery and Islamization in Africa" in Slaves and Slavery... (loan)

7. John Edward Philips, "The Persistence of Slave Officials in the Sokoto Caliphate" in Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa (loan)

Usman dan Fodio group:

1. "Sokoto Caliphate" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (library reference) 

2. David C. Tambo, "The Sokoto Caliphate Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century"

3. Jean Boyd and Murray Last, "The Role of Women as "Agents Religieux" in Sokoto"

4. Mervyn Hiskett, The Sword of Truth, Intro, Ch. 2

5. Mervyn Hiskett, The Sword of Truth, Intro, Ch. 3 and Ch. 5

6. Marilyn Waldman, "The Fulani Jihad: A Reassessment"

7. John Ralph Willis, "Jihad fi Sabil Allah-Its Doctrinal Basis in Islam and Some Aspects of Its Evolution in Nineteenth-Century West Africa"

Abdullah dan Fodio group:

1. "Sokoto Caliphate" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (library reference) 

2. John Ralph Willis, "Jihad fi Sabil Allah-Its Doctrinal Basis in Islam and Some Aspects of Its Evolution in Nineteenth-Century West Africa"

3. Murray Last, The Sokoto Caliphate Ch. 1 and 2 (loan)

4. Murray Last, The Sokoto Caliphate Ch. 3 and 4 (to p. 81) (loan)

5. Marilyn Waldman, "The Fulani Jihad: A Reassessment"

6. Mervyn Hiskett, "Material Relating to the State of Learning among the Fulani before Their Jihad" (full version of the main text; skip the Arabic text, clearly)

al-Kanemi/Bello group:

1. "Sokoto Caliphate" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (library reference) 

2. Louis Brenner, The Shehus of Kukawa Ch. 2 (loan)

3. Marilyn Waldman, "The Fulani Jihad: A Reassessment"

4. H.A.S. Johnston, The Fulani Empire of Sokoto, Ch. 7 and Ch. 10

5. Paul E. Lovejoy, "The Bello-Clapperton Exchange" in The Desert Shore (loan)