From Slavery to Aid

Auteur

Benedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. She is editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (2009) and Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Anne Haour, 2010), and author of many articles focusing on slavery and emancipation in Africa and on international aid to Niger.

Texte du rabat

This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.

Résumé
From Slavery to Aid takes two major themes of African historiography - the death of slavery and the birth of aid - and constructs a social history of the Ader region, an understudied region of the West African Sahel in today's Republic of Niger.

Contenu

1. At the desert's edge; 2. Between Sokoto and Agadez: inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century; 3. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899-1917; 4. Governing labour - slave, forced and migrant, 1918-45; 5. The development of 'development', 1946-83; 6. Fighting against the desert, 1984-2000; 7. Between development and dependence.