Bello: The son and heir of Shaikh to the Sokoto Empire.

Shaikh: A scholar who founded the Sokoto Empire. He was already fifty years old when the jihad started. Though he was appointed commander of the armies, he conducted much of the administrative work and never led a raid or a campaign.

Yunfa: The sultan of Gobir, who was staunchly anti-Shaikh. He warned other pagan Hausa towns of becoming allies with the Moslems. They failed to unite with him.

Hausaland and the Growth of the Sokoto Caliphate

Introduction
Equipment, Training and Weapons
Tactics and Campaigns
Pre-Jihad Chronology of Hausaland
The Sokoto-Gobirawa War 1804-07
The Sokoto Early Migration Trek
The Sokoto Empire Consolidation Era 1817-1859
Key Personalities of Sokoto and Hausaland
Key Hausa Towns