ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the contexts and sequences in detail to indicate those conflicts or convergences of personal or institutional interests that structured the changing accommodations of Fulani and British, while simultaneously preserving and transforming the Kano polity in substance and form. The British victory initially appeared to threaten the Fulani social order at its base by promising freedom to slaves and the end of Fulani domination to subject Hausa. Both issues found equally prompt expression and response. Hausa expectations of freedom from Fulani rule following the arrival of the British were freely expressed. For example when the Kano nobility fell back on Chamberawa following their defeat at Kotorkwoshi, the people of the villages shut their gates and thrust the Kano men from their walls when they attempted to enter, but received our party with cordiality. Lugard’s program of administrative reform and development was organised as a hierarchy of priorities.
