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Islam, Migration and the Political Economy of Meaning: Fergo Nioro from the Senegal River Valley, 1862–1890

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John H. Hanson
John H. Hanson
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The Muslim social movement known as the fergo Nioro provides a case of popular elaboration of the message of a leader of jihad. Umar Tal's call to holy war led to the conquest of Karta in the mid-1850s, and his call to hijra resulted in the migration of perhaps 20,000 Senegal-valley Fulbe to form a Muslim settler community. In the years after Umar's departure from Karta in 1859, military leaders and others in the Fulbe settler community sent envoys to recruit additional settlers from the Senegal valley. At least 16,000 and perhaps as many as 30,000 Fulbe responded to this recruitment effort and left Bundu, Futa Toro and the lower Senegal valley between 1862 and 1890. Two periods of more massive migration coincided with the residence at Nioro of Amadu Sheku, Umar's son and designated successor. During the late 1860s and early 1870s, a cholera epidemic swept up the Senegal valley, claimed thousands of victims, and encouraged Fulbe to leave the region for Karta. During the mid-1880s, French policies in the Senegal valley, notably the emancipation of slaves and moves to halt Fulbe raids in the lower Senegal valley, influenced the social movement.

In both periods of large-scale migration and at other times, the Umarian envoys constructed an appeal which elaborated and even transformed Umar's call to hijra. Umar's insistence on holy war was a dominant theme in all periods, and resonated with the young men who left the valley in hopes of accumulating wealth through warfare. His condemnation of French influence in the Senegal valley was also expressed in the Arabic letters delivered by envoys. Umar's emphasis on the cutting of social bonds was not emphasized, as Fulbe settlers sought to attract relatives and neighbors to the new Fulbe communities in Karta.

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West African Islam and Society
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The Journal of African History , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 37 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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61 Most French officials prepared monthly reports on agriculture, commerce and political affairs.

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76 To my knowledge, the French intercepted no other letters, and the Arabic materials from Nioro and Segu do not contain copies of letters sent to the Senegal valley.

77 For a sampling of letters, see ANS 13G102: Dagana, 8 July 1864, Ct. Dagana to the Governor; 13G123: Podor, 24 Dec. 1866, Ct. Dagana to the Governor; 13G131: Podor, 25 Dec. 1882, Ct. Podor to the Director of Political Affairs; 13G41: Podor, 1 Nov. 1886, Ct. Podor to the Governor.

78 In addition to the interviews cited in note 23 above, I have consulted interviews that I conducted in Nioro-du-Sahel and the surrounding villages in 1985–6 as well as additional interviews conducted by Abdoul Aziz Diallo in the villages surrounding Nioro.

79 This theme emerges most clearly in Diallo's interviews with Mamadou Alfa Diallo (see note 23 above) and in my interview with Amadou Ba on 26 Jan. 1986 at Nioro-du-Sahel, Mali.

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94 ANS 13G104: Dagana, 19 Apr. and 10 May 1869, Ct. Dagana to the Governor.

95 ANS 13G104: Dagana, 3 Apr. 1869, Ct. Dagana to the Governor.

96 ANS 13G104: Dagana, 3 Apr. 1869, Ct. Dagana to the Governor.

97 ANS 13G104: Dagana, 30 Apr. 1869, Ct. Dagana to the Governor.

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101 ANS 13G171: Bakel, 1 Mar. 1870, testimony of Ali Aliou Senou and Tafsir Alioune (French translation of interview sessions with Ct. Bakel in the presence of an interpreter).

102 ANS 13G171: Bakel, 28 Feb. and 30 May 1871, Ct. Bakel to the Governor.

103 ANS 1D34: Gandiole, 12 Feb. 1875, telegram to the Governor

104 ANS 13G108: Dagana, n.d. [1875?], ‘Rapport sur la répression exercée sur les partisans du marabout dans le Dimar’.

105 ANS 13G109: Dagana, 3 Aug. 1877, Ct. Dagana to the Governor; Faliu,‘Les Peuls Oudabé’, first interview with Boubaker Sadio (see note 23).

106 ANS 13G108: Dagana, 29 Mar. 1875, Ct. Dagana to the Governor and Dagana, ‘Bulletin agricole, commercial et politique’, March, 1875; 13G145: Aéré, 21 Oct. 1869, Ct. Aéré to the Governor and 13G127: Podor, 18 Mar. 1878, Ct. Podor to the Governor.

107 ANS 13G109: Dagana, ‘Bulletin agricole, commercial et politique’, Jan., Feb., Mar. 1878; Faliu, ‘Les Peuls Oudabé’; first interview with Boubakar Sadio.

108 ANS 2B75: St. Louis, 11 Apr. 1885, Governor to the Minister; 13G101: Dagana, 22 Feb. and 27 Sept. 1862, Ct. Dagana to the Governor; Robinson, , Chiefs and Clerics, 136–7.Google Scholar

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110 ANS 13G109: Dagana, ‘Bulletin agricole, commercial et politique’, Jan., Feb., Mar. 1878.

111 ANS 13G127: Podor, 14 Mar. 1878, Ct. Podor to Ct. Bakel; Podor, ‘Bulletin agricole, commercial et politique’, Nov. 1878; 13G145: Aéré, ‘Bulletin agricole, commercial et politique’, Nov. 1878.

112 Renault, L'Abolition de l'esclavage.

113 The information was published monthly in Le Moniteur du Senegal et Dépendences.

114 ANF SOM SEN, XIV, 17: St. Louis, 27 Sept. 1892, interim Governor to the Minister, quoted in Renault, , L'Abolition de l'esclavage, 37Google Scholar, n 2.

115 This estimate is based on the Governor's reference to the numbers of emancipations in selected months of 1881–2. See ANS 2B74: St. Louis, 20 Apr., 20 June and 20 July 1882, Governor to the Minister.

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117 For example, the commandant at Podor noted that, at a meeting with all the major Fulbe leaders of Toro province, the response to his question about the reasons for migration was unanimous: ‘the liberation of slaves, the eternal argument of those who wish to explain their fanaticism’ (emphasis in the original). ANS 13G41: Podor, 15 Dec. 1886, Ct. Podor to the Governor.

118 ANS 13G111: Dagana, 1 Aug. 1881, Ct. Dagana to the Governor.

119 ANS 13G112: Dagana, 1 Apr. 1883, Ct. Dagana to the Governor.

120 ANS 13G132: Podor, 16 Apr. 1885, Ct. Podor to the Governor.

121 ANS 13G185: Bakel, ‘Copie du registre journal de poste’, May 1885.

122 ANS 13G132: Podor, ‘Rapport politique’, Jan. 1885; 1D117: Bandiougoula, 12 Jan. 1891, Ruault to Colonel Archinard; Faliu, ‘Les Peuls Oudabé’, first interview with Boubaker Sadio.

123 ANM 1E207: Medine, 1 May 1886, Ct. Medine to Ct. Cercles; ANS 13G41: Richard Toll, 12 Mar. 1886, Captain to Governor.

124 ANS 13G132: Aéré, 8 Jan. 1886, Ct. Aéré to the Governor; 1D95: ‘Rapport sur la campagne, 1888–89’; 1D105: ‘Rapport sur la campagne, 1889–90’.

125 ANS 13G41: St. Louis, 24 Aug. 1886, Director of Political Affairs to the Governor; Podor, 12 Sept. 1886, Ct. Podor to the Director of Political Affairs; Podor, n.d., Ct. Podor to Director of Political Affairs (pièce 140).

126 ANS 13G41: Podor, 1 Nov. 1886, Ct. Podor to the Governor, and Podor, n.d., Ct. Podor to the Governor (pièce 140).

127 ANS 13G113: Dagana, 7 Apr. and 17 June 1885, Ct. Dagana to the Director of Political Affairs.

128 ANS 13G41: ‘Circulaire’ of 13 Apr. 1887.

129 ANS 13G41: Podor, 3 July 1886, Ct. Podor to the Governor (copy).

130 ANF SOM SEN, 1, 80b: St. Louis, 6 Feb. 1889, Governor to the Minister; ANS K12: St. Louis, 18 Dec. 1889, Governor to the Minister (draft).