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unusual facts about Zarma people


Zarma people

While Dosso fell under the control of the Amir of Gando (a sub division of Sokoto) between 1849 and 1856, they retained their Zarmakoy and the nominal rule of a much larger Zarma territory, and were converted to Islam.


Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Over time his close observations of the Songhay-Zarma people have informed other projects, on more general topics, but all grounded in empirical researches in Africa: anthropology of development, medical anthropoogy, anthropology of bureaucacies, and, more generally, an anthropology of public actions and of the delivery of public and collective goods and services in Africa.


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