Paul Lubeck's article, published in the journal Africa, argues that the Yan Tatsine risings are best explained by the uneven social dislocation of Kano's semi-industrial economy in the 1970s oil boom, which drew large numbers of poorly integrated migrant laborers, including many from Chad, Niger and Cameroon, into a city where they found neither stable industrial employment nor a place in the existing religious establishment, leaving them receptive to Muhammadu Marwa's uncompromising preaching against wealth, Western goods and the mainstream Islamic clergy who Marwa accused of corruption.
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PublisherAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute, Volume 55, Issue 4 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA peer-reviewed article by a sociologist of political economy in a leading Africanist journal, offering the standard socioeconomic reading of the risings against which more theologically focused accounts, including Isichei's, are usually read. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Cameroon directly: "including many from Chad, Niger and Cameroon, into a city where they found neither stable industrial employment nor a place in the existing religious establishment, leaving them receptive to..."
This source names Chad directly: "migrant laborers, including many from Chad, Niger and Cameroon, into a city where they found neither stable industrial employment nor a place in the existing religious establishment, leaving them..."
This source names Niger directly: "laborers, including many from Chad, Niger and Cameroon, into a city where they found neither stable industrial employment nor a place in the existing religious establishment, leaving them receptive..."
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