ABSTRACT
When Dan Kasawa died in c. 1831, about ten years after the Maradi revolt, the Hausa dominion at Maradi was assured; and thus Maradi became the site of the successor-state of Hausa Katsina. At Maradi most royal title-holders were systematically divorced from administrative responsibility, jural and military power, and economic resources. The Katsina Hausa settled at Maradi as liberators resuming their rightful inheritance, with support from the local chiefs. Maradi territory also contained bands of nomad pastoral Fulani and immigrant Muslim Hausa. From Dan Mari's defeat in Ruma until the accession of Rauda's son, Dan Baskore, in 1854, the Sultan of Sokoto, Aliyu Babba bore the brunt of the war with Hausa Gobir and Katsina himself. Dan Baskore's long successful reign marks a watershed in the history of Maradi. Dan Baskore had built a large wall around his capital at Maradi.
