Environmental and Cultural Dynamics in the West African Savanna

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CONTENTS: Introductory Papers: Kyari Tijani: Defining the state border in the lacustrine area of the Chad Basin Herrmann Jungraithmayr / Rudolf Leger: Northeastern Nigeria – A unique linguistic laboratory I Prehistory in the Chad Basin: Detlef Gronenborn: Historical archaeology in the Chad Basin – Past achievements and future prospects Musa Oluwaseyi Hambolu: New data and insights into the Late Stone Age colonization of the southwest Chad Basin after the desiccation of the Sahara Birgitt Wiesmüller: Late Stone Age and Iron Age settlement mounds in the firki clay plains south of Lake Chad Bienvenu Denis Nizésété: Ancient metallurgy in north Cameroon: Technication rationalities – social context – magical and religious practices in iron production – A case study of Dii people in Adamaoua Province II The Chad Basin as Human Meeting Point in History: Kyari Mohammed: Man and environment in Bornu – A historical account Ibrahim Maina Waziri: Towards the dating of a migratory pattern in the Chad Basin – A case study of the Bolewa Fikka migration Saliba B. James: Migration and culture contact in the Gongola Basin Yakubu Mukhtar / Alhaji Umar Bako: The impact of environmental variables on the trade in hides and skins in colonial Borno (ca. 1902-1960) Jörg Adelberger: The colonial subjugation of the Muri Mountains and adjacent regions in northern Nigeria – A preliminary account III Environmental Dynamics and Language: Umara Bulakarima: From the legendary Sau – The existence of Chadic traits among the Kanuri Eldridge Mohammadou: Jarawan Bantu expansion from the eastern Upper Benue Basin, ca. 1700-1750 Ahmed Tela Baba: The variety of West Hausa in the multilingual environment of Gashua IV Society and Politics in the Chad Basin: Bärbel Freyer: Attempts at community formation – The Igbo at Lake Chad Martin Zachary Njeuma: The Lake Chad Basin Commission in West and Central African political culture V Cultural Dynamism, Language, Literature: Thomas Geider: Kanuri oral literature and its regional and world literary interconnectedness in cultural-historical perspective VI Environmental Changes, Water and Landmass: Heinrich Thiemeyer / Maren Gumnior: Holocene fluvial dynamics and sediment sequences of the Komadugu Yobe and Gana river system, NE Nigeria Jacob K. Nyanganji: The morphology of the Ngadda Basin in Borno State, NE Nigeria Abba Kagu / Yagana Muhammad Aji: Effects of Alao Dam on some socio-economic activities of women in Jere Bowl (downstream of River Ngadda), NE Nigeria VII Climatic Change, Dynamics of Land Use and Agricultural Adaptation: Anselme Wakponou: Physical conditions and socio-economic and cultural mutation in the Chad plain in extreme north Cameroon Michel Tchotsoua / Iya Moussa: Indicators of the Adamaoua Plateau (Cameroon) landscape dynamics W. Paul Adderley / Holger Kirscht / Ian A. Simpson / Mohammed Adam: Agrarian resource use by Kanuri and Shuwa Arab peoples in the Kala-Balge region, NE Nigeria – Perspectives of traditional field system management VIII The Nigerian Savanna – Gombe and Adamaoua: Werner Fricke: The Nigerian savanna: Gombe and Adamaoua – Signs of an unbalanced development Heiko Balzerek: Achievements and problems in the evolution of urban centres in the Nigerian savanna – Case study of Gombe Gilbert Malchau: From world market back to internal markets – Dynamics of agriculture in the hinterland of Gombe and rural areas in southern Nigeria

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