What you'll learn

• The Tukulor people before the emergence of Alhaji Umar: politics, economy and religion.
• Alhaji Umar, the Tijaniyya brotherhood and its doctrines.
• The source of inspiration: the Jihad of dan Fodio.
• The Jihad of Alhaji Umar: the military campaigns and the emergence of the Tukulor Empire.
• The organisation of the Tukulor empire.
• the effects of the Jihad: Mass initiation of people into the Tijaniyya Brotherhood, etc.
• The French invasion and the collapse of the Empire.