The category ‘Hausa revolts’ mixed fact, planter manipulation, and anti-Muslim bias.

Evidence

The “Hausa revolts” between 1808 and 1835, Kent maintains, were a construct of part fact, part attempted manipulation by local planters and merchants of state authorities, and part prejudicial renderings of evidence of Muslim involvement. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 763

Categorization

• QUESTION: This raises how colonial categories distorted African resistance history — worth weighing against Robinson’s central project.