Abstract:
The significance of the project cannot be over emphasized. The researchers, in a manner of speaking, ‘told it as it really was’. All the chapters were based, on solid evidence ranging from theses-M.A. Ph.D to archival files, oral information and field observations etc. All these pains were taken in order to avoid conjectures and sentimental or emotional opinions. Accordingly, the volume put together professional and informed accounts by 20 historians (lecturers, senior lecturers and professors) of 603 years of Yauri History. It has provided not only the dynastic records of the Sarauta and the Sarauta system of Yauri from the first founder- Sarki Tafiraulu to the 43rd Emir of Yauri in person of Dr. Muhammadu Zayyanu Abdullahi, CON, FNSM, but has also discovered and stated that Yauri, since that time had remained the only kingdom among the islanders of the river Niger. And the undisputed leader and authority to which all the 15 districts of the Yauri Emirate paid allegiance, tributes and taxes right from the fifteenth century, down to the Jihad period through the colonial period up to the present.
