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ECOLOGY AND POWER IN THE PERIPHERY OF MAASINA: THE CASE OF THE HAYRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2001

MIRJAM DE BRUIJN  and
HAN VAN DIJK
MIRJAM DE BRUIJN
Affiliation:
African Studies Centre, Leiden
HAN VAN DIJK
Affiliation:
African Studies Centre, Leiden
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Abstract

This article explores political tensions between successive nineteenth-century rulers of the inland delta of the Niger in central Mali (the Fulbe Diina of Hamdullahi and the Futanke successors of al-Hajj Umar) and the pastoral interests of the Fulbe chiefdoms on their eastern periphery, in a region known as the Hayre. A close study of changing forms of local governance and natural resource management demonstrates that although different strategies were employed by the Fulbe and Futanke states to control the Hayre, the internal dynamics of the region can only partly be explained by the influence of these central powers.

Keywords

Malikingdoms and statespastoralismenvironment
Type
Ecology and Conflict in the West African Sahel
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , July 2001 , pp. 217 - 238
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The research upon which this article is based was sponsored by the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO, grant W52-494). The project, entitled ‘Fulani society in a changing world: Central Mali’, was conducted for the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Utrecht (Mirjam de Bruijn) and the Departments of Agrarian Law and Forestry of Wageningen Agricultural University (Han van Dijk), both in the Netherlands.