Being and Becoming Hausa (African Social Studies Series)

Anne Haour is a Lecturer in the Arts & Archaeology of Africa at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. An archaeologist, she has written on the West African past and developed theoretical questions in several publications, including Rulers, warriors, traders, clerics: the central Sahel and the North Sea, AD 800-1500 (Oxford, 2007). Benedetta Rossi is RCUK Fellow at the School of History of the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on the historical anthropology of Hausa and Tuareg societies in Niger and Northern Nigeria. She has published on development, migration, and slavery, and is the editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool, 2009).