Browsing by Author "Ado, Aminu Saidu"

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    A history of forest conservation in Katsina Emirate, Northern Nigeria, 1807 – 1960.
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2018) Ado, Aminu Saidu
    This thesis presents a historical analysis of forest conservation in Katsina Emirate of Northern Nigeria during the pre-colonial and colonial periods. The Katsina Emirate was known for its abundant forest lands and the people have been interacting with the forest resources since time immemorial. The study investigates how people using their indigenous knowledge conserved forests in the pre-Caliphate and Caliphate period, and shows how the establishment of the Caliphate, and later colonialism, changed the dynamics of forest conservation in the area. The thesis employs the political ecology approach in analyzing the dynamics of forest conservation. Using triangulation of data from official publications, archives and oral interviews, the study demonstrates how, prior to the nineteenth century, endogenous environmental perceptions in the form of reverence for totems and sacred areas as well as the functioning of socio-cultural institutions influenced forest resources conservation in Katsina Emirate. The coming of the nineteenth century Jihadists and establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate brought about direct government intervention in forest conservation. The Caliphate forest rules and regulations led to the creation of reserved lands and developed a conservation system that linked forest and farmland resources in time and space. Further changes occurred from 1903 when the British introduced modern forest conservation methods aimed at transforming the indigenous forest conservation and management systems. In the process reserves were created to conserve forests and ordinances were formulated that protected the in-farm trees from utilization by local communities. Although conceptually different, colonial conservation was operationally similar to what obtained during the Caliphate phase. More importantly, the implementation of the colonial policies effectively disrupted the pre-colonial forest conservation system by separating farm from forest resources, thus setting one of the colonial legacies which persist to date.
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    The role of the university of Dar es salaam in the development of ujamaa in Tanzania (1967 — 1991)
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2010) Ado, Aminu Saidu
    This study is born out of the desire to explore the role of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in the development of Ujamaa in Tanzania because in spite of the contributions of the University of Dar es Salaam in promoting the philosophy of Ujamaa in the history. of Tanzania, its role in the development of the system has not been adequately represented by writers and scholars alike. In carrying out the study, information (data) was obtained from oral interviews as well as from documentary sources. Result from the analysis has shown that the University of Dar es Salaam had indeed contributed to the development of not only the Ujamaa ideology but also to the nationalist era before it. It has also been shown that among the paramount contributions include provision of small and high level manpower initially for the newly independent Tanganyika nation and later towards becoming a socialist nation. Other areas include Africanisation and socialization of the curriculum and in the volume of socialist literature produced by the academic staff of the University for the benefit of the nation. A host of the directors, commissioners, advisors, etc. employed by Nyerere as part of the brain tank in the actualization of Ujamaa policies came from the University of Dar es Salaam. In all, the contribution of the University of Dar es Salaam to the development of Ujamaa in Tanzania was much more wider than what has been presented in this research work, and, thus, it is the hope of the researcher that a much more comprehensive research at a higher level will be conducted in the near future to tackle aspects not treated in this work.