Table of Contents

2.0

• Catalogue (All Sections)

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2.1

• 2.1a(ii) Reviews of O'Hear, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors 

• 2.1b(i) Book Edited by Ann O’Hear: Letters from Nigeria, 1899‒1900: David Wynford Carnegie. Madison: African Program University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1992. Edited, with new introduction, notes, appendix, and index.  

• 2.1b(ii)  Book Edited by Ann O’Hear: Letters from Nigeria, 1899‒1900: David Wynford Carnegie. Madison: African Program University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1992. Edited, with new introduction, notes, appendix, and index.  

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2.2

• 2.2a(i) Bibliography of  Source Materials for “Oriki and the History of Slavery in Ilorin, Nigeria.” List of hard-to-find works on oriki used in the preparation of this chapter, including rare published oriki (alphabetical order by author):

• 2.2a (ii). Comments by Karin Barber, 15 June 2018, on Ann O’Hear, “Oriki and the History of Slavery in Ilorin, Nigeria,” a chapter included in African Slaves, African Masters: Politics, Memories, Social Life, ed. Alice Bellagamba, Sandra Greene, and Martin Klein, 153-174. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press (Tubman Series), 2017.

• 2.2a(iii) Summary of Ann O’Hear, “Oriki and the History of Slavery in Ilorin, Nigeria,” in African Slaves, African Masters: Politics, Memories, Social Life, ed. Alice Bellagamba, Sandra Greene, and Martin Klein, 153-174. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press (Tubman Series), 2017.

• 2.2b(i) Summary of Ann O’Hear, “Elite Slaves in Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 39, no. 2 (2006): 247-273.

• 2.2b(ii) Corrections to printed article, “Elite Slaves in Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

• 2.2c(i) Short notes on Ann O’Hear, “The History of the Okun Yorùbá: Research Directions,” in Yoruba Identity and Power Politics, ed. Toyin Falola and Ann Genova, 111‒126. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006. And short notes on 2.4c(ii), “The [Okun] Yoruba and the Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence” (unpublished). Both contain slavery-related material.

• 2.2d(i) Short note and summary, Ann O’Hear, “The Enslavement of Yoruba,” in The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World, ed. Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs, 56-73. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

• 2.2e(i) Summary of Ann O’Hear, “Ilorin as a Slaving and Slave-Trading Emirate,” in Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam, ed. Paul E. Lovejoy, 55-68. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2004.

• 2.2f(i) Short note on Ann O’Hear, “Dependency Relationships in the Twentieth Century,” in Nigeria in the Twentieth Century, ed. Toyin Falola, 225‒231. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002; and cross-reference to conference version, 2.4b(iv) in this Archive.

• 2.2g(i) Summary of Ann O’Hear, “British Intervention and the Slaves and Peasant Farmers of Ilorin, c. 1890‒c. 1906,” Paideuma, vol. 40 (1994): 129-148.  Also correction to the printed text.

• 2.2h(i) Summary of Ann O’Hear, “Pawning [of persons] in the Emirate of Ilorin,” in Pawnship in Africa, ed. Paul E. Lovejoy and Toyin Falola, 217‒243. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994. [Reprinted unchanged in Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa, ed. Paul E. Lovejoy and Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003.]

• 2.2j Summary of  Ann O’Hear, “Political and Commercial Clientage in Nineteenth-Century Ilorin,” African Economic History, no. 15 (1986): 69‒83. This research note contains material on elite slaves as baba kekere (intermediaries), which is summarised below.

• 2.2k Short note on “Agriculture in Ilorin during the Precolonial and Colonial Periods,” Odu (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria), no. 30 (1986): 67‒97 and other sources of information on the topics included in the article.

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2.3

• 2.3a Summary, Ann O’Hear, “Models and Outcomes of the Decline of Slavery,” review of Howard Temperley, ed., After Slavery: Emancipation and Its Discontents (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2000), in Journal of African History, vol. 43, no. 1 (2002): 166‒167.

• 2.3b Summary, Ann O’Hear, review of Christy Burke, Morality and Mission: Francis Libermann and Slavery (1840-1850) (Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 1998), in The African Book Publishing Record, vol. 25, no. 1 (1999):  21.

• 2.3c Summary, Ann O’Hear, review of  Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn, Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), in African Studies Review, vol. 38, no. 2 (September 1995): 162-164.

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2.4

• 2.4a(ii) O’Hear Thesis: Notes Providing References to Material Relevant to Slavery/Dependency in the Thesis

• 2.4b(i) “Shifting Projects of Elite Royal Slaves in Ilorin and Divergence between the Projects of Ilorin and Kano Slaves.” Landscapes, Sources, and Intellectual Projects in African History: Symposium in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, University of Birmingham, Department of African Studies and Anthropology and Centre of West African Studies, 2015.

• 2.4b(ii) “Yoruba/Caliphate Society: Proverbs and Praise Poems.” Conference on Tales of Slavery: Narratives of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Enslavement in Africa, University of Toronto, 2009.

• 2.4b(iii) “African Sources for the Study of Slavery and Its Aftermath in Ilorin, Nigeria.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting (USA), 2007.

• 2.4b(iv) “Nigeria: Dependent Status in the Twentieth Century.” Conference on “Nigeria in the Twentieth Century,” University of Texas at Austin, March 2002

• 2.4b(v) Tubman Seminar on Slavery, York University, Toronto, 31 March 1997. Some references have been updated (December 2020) in square brackets in the endnotes. These include some items which now appear in the Dr. Ann O’Hear Archive, DigITall African History Archive. Readers should check for other such items.

• 2.4c(i) With E. B. Bolaji. “Slavery in Ilorin, Nigeria.” Unpublished paper: extended interview with Ilorin informant, with background and commentary. It was originally intended as a contribution to a workbook for students.

• 2.4c(ii) “The [Okun] Yoruba and the Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence”