The Igbo-Igala borderland : religion & social control in indigenous African colonialism / Austin J. Shelton.

This ethno-historical survey of the northern Nsukka borderland examines particularly one method of African colonial control. When, in the late eighteenth century, the Igala conquered the indigenous Igbo, they gained and held social control through monopoly of certain religious positions. However, de...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Shelton, Austin J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 1971.
Subjects:	Igbo (African people) > Religion. Igala (African people) > Religion. Social control.