The 1804–1808 Fula Jihad War began when Usman dan Fodio, a prominent Islamic scholar and teacher, was exiled from Gobir(Gobirawa) by the king Yunfa, one of his former students..

Usman dan Fodio assembled a Fulani army to lead in jihad against the Hausa kingdoms of the north of Nigeria.. In 1805, the Fula jihadists captured the Hausa kingdom of Kebbi.. And By 1807, the jihadists had taken over the states of Katsina and Daura, and the important kingdom of Kano.

In 1808, the jihadists captured Gobir, killing Yunfa in the battle. And with the capture of Gobir, the jihadists saw that they were part of a wider regional struggle. They continued with battles against a number of Hausa kingdoms..

The war resulted in the creation of the Sokoto Caliphate, headed by Usman dan Fodio and expanded over a few years.. — The Caliphate then became one of the largest states in Africa in the 19th century...

http://forum.naijastore.net/Article-The-1804-1808-Fulani-Jihad-War-and-Creation-of-Sokoto-Caliphate-td3744.html

Jihad war still...

I didn't see all these in the 1960 independence constitution?

Wake me up When this get to FP..


*spreads mat*

Why was he exiled in the first place? You can't start telling history from the middle.
*Modified
I can't believe the Mods brought this to PF. This is just a segment of a long story. Even if you don't want to write much you could at least summarize the main events.
It's not by force to be a blogger.
Here is a summary intro from Wikipedia.

A teacher of the Maliki school of law, he lived in the city-state of Gobir until 1802 when, motivated by his
reformist ideas and suffering increasing repression by local authorities, he led his followers into exile. This exile began a political and social revolution which spread from Gobir throughout modern Nigeria and Cameroon, and was echoed in a jihad movement led by the Fula ethnic group across West Africa. Dan Fodio declined much of the pomp of rulership, and while developing contacts with religious reformists and jihad leaders across Africa, he soon passed actual leader ship of the Sokoto state to his son,
Muhammed Bello .
Dan Fodio wrote more than a hundred books concerning religion, government , culture , and society . He developed a critique of existing African Muslim elites for what he saw as their greed, paganism, violation of the standards of Sharia law, and use of heavy taxation. He encouraged literacy and scholarship, for women as well as men, and several of his daughters emerged as scholars and writers. His writings and sayings continue to be much quoted today, and are often affectionately referred to as
Shehu in Nigeria. Some followers consider dan Fodio to have been a mujaddid , a divinely inspired "reformer of Islam". [7]
Dan Fodio's uprising was a major episode of a movement described as the Fulani hegemonies in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. [8] It followed the jihads successfully waged in Futa Bundu , Futa Tooro , and Fouta Djallon between 1650 and 1750, which led to the creation of those three Islamic states. In his turn, Shehu inspired a number of later West African jihads, including those of Seku Amadu , founder of the Masina Empire , El Hadj Umar Tall, founder of the Toucouleur Empire (who married one of dan Fodio's granddaughters), and Modibo Adama , founder of the Adamawa Emirate .
Early life and training
Edit
Dan Fodio was a Fulani descendant of a torodbe family that was well established in Hausaland. [9][10] He was well educated in classical Islamic science, philosophy, and theology. He also became a revered religious thinker. His teacher, Jibril ibn 'Umar, argued that it was the duty and within the power of religious movements to establish an ideal society free from oppression and vice. Jibril was a North African Muslim alim who gave his apprentice a broader perspective of Muslim reformist ideas in other parts of the Muslim world. Jibril b. Umar was known as an uncompromising opponent of corrupt practices and a stuanch proponent of Jihad. He begain his intinerant preaching as a mallam in 1774-1775. Inspired by Jibril b. Umar, Uthman Dan Fodio criticized the Hausa Kingdoms for their unjust and illegal taxes, confiscations of property, compulsory military service, bribery, gift taking and the enslavement of other Muslims. Dan Fodio also criticized the Hausa rulers for condoning paganism, worshipping fetishes, and believing in the power of talismans, divination, and conjuring. He also insisted on the observance of
Maliki Law in the commercial, criminal, and personal sectors. Uthman also denounced the mixing of men and women, pagan customs, dancing at bridal feasts, and inheritance practices contrary to Islamic Law .
Uthman was also very influenced by the Mushahada or mystical visions he was having. In 1789 a vision led him to believe he had the power to work miracles, and to teach his own mystical wird , or litany. His litanies are still widely practiced and distributed in the Islamic world. [11] Dan Fodio later had visions of
Abdul-Qadir Gilani , the founder of the Qadari Sufi Brotherhood, an ascension to heaven, where he was initiated into the Qadiriyya and the spiritual lineage of the Prophet. His thological writings dealt with concepts of the renewer " mujaddid and the role of the Ulama in teaching history, and other works in Arabic and Fulbe. Many people regarded him as the
Mahdi (messiah) come in fullfilment of popular prophecies. [12]
Dan Fodio broke from the royal court and used his influence to secure approval for creating a religious community in his hometown of Degel that would, dan Fodio hoped, be a model town. He stayed there for twenty years, writing, teaching, and preaching. As in other Islamic societies, the autonomy of Muslim communities under Ulama leadership made it possible to resist the state and the state version of Islam in the name of Sharia and the ideal caliphate.

bastards abokis

The jihad is still on now,very soon the fulani will conquer the whole Hausa and middle belt inclusive

original zombie them.

Seriously, I don't care but I read it though. u never know what u may find in job interviews

Igbos cry Everytime that they are marginalized but think of the Hausas that Fulani came in and conquered. The Yorubas may serve the caliphate politically but the Hausas are the real slave. For what history tells us. Foolanis are visitors.

Hausas sacrificed everything to the Fulani.

Fulani is a minority tribe in Nigeria but very vicious and domineering.

Incomplete story..tell me more

And they want to start another Jihad now abi, we are waiting.

this history small nah

we once stayed this state before i was posted there few years back for my nysc

The north problem started from birth. They have already finish killing themselfs before they started looking for us.
If you are a muslim reading this............you are welcom to "hell

I can see some people in nairaland are on an agenda

And he eventually met his death in the hands of the Tivs... He killed by the sword and he died by the sword..

Shame to the Hausas,the most spineless, weakest & slavish tribe of all, generations after, yet they remained too doomed to take back what is rightfully theirs. What a shame

# It baffle me seeing some Muslims defending that terrorist called Uthman Dan Fodio. He only took after his grand terrorist master Ibn Abdulwahab.

Empiree

It's only desert they can claim with their rubbish jihad.

Truth is those with basic history of Nigerian societies presumably from the 1800s would understand that this present country wasn't meant to be. Lord Luggard just fvcked things up for us.

Chai, Hausa people have suffered.

So

okay





Meanwhile Guy's check out my profile for tour extender products and other adult fantasy toy's

Built2last:
Igbos cry Everytime that they are marginalized but think of the Hausas that Fulani came in and conquered. The Yorubas may serve the caliphate politically but the Hausas are the real slave. For what history tells us. Foolanis are visitors.

Hausas sacrificed everything to the Fulani.

Fulani is a minority tribe in Nigeria but very vicious and domineering.

why can't they do the same in Guinea, Sekou Toure nearly wiped all of them in Guinea. they can't try all these shit in Guinea, the Mandingo's and susu will slaughter them..

PLEASE, WHAT IS THE MORAL LESSON OF THIS STORY?