Wikipedia:Nuttall Encyclopedia topics/25

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Yokuba - a 19th century definition of a town does not an article make

-- could be Ya'qub, Sudan [1]

the problem is that Sokoto is in Nigeria on the wrong side of Africa, not in Sudan

Well, be careful. The Sudan, as meant by a British encyclopedia written 100 years ago, means a huge swath of north-central Africa. The Sokoto empire was also well-spread around west and central Africa at one time, so we have quite a wide area to search. However, even with that in mind, I think Nuttall may be talking rubbish here. It claims that Yokuba had a population of 150,000, which is big even now by the standards of that region. Back then it would've been even more significant. With that in mind it seems odd that

Google and Yahoo! searchs reveal nothing (although searching is difficult because Yokuba appears to be a word in Xhosa).

A wide-ranging Jstor journal search reveals one (unrelated) hit.

An Amazon "Search inside" of Pakenham's Scramble for Africa reveals no hits.

Searchs in the 2004 and 1911 Britannica reveal nothing.

Maybe the good reverend made a spelling mistake, but I haven't found it yet. Pcb21| Pete 15:40, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The list of trade goods does not help. indigo grows throughout tropical africa, cotton was grown on both the west and east coasts, tobacco suggests the slave trade on the west, which puts us back into sokoto, and so I'm going to spend some more time looking at old maps of what is now Nigeria...... Rick Boatright 00:59, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck. It probably is bad spelling of an obsolete name. However if you don't get anywhere. There is precedent for declaring certain entries in Nuttall as plain wrong and wiping them from the list - page done! Pcb21| Pete 07:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One to go.

I've made an edit to the wikipedia page indicating that the location may be wrong or is at least currently indeterminate... I think we could call this done. Rick Boatright 18:36, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Any reason why we shouldn't mark this done? Womble 13:05, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've marked this as done, on the main page. JesseW 22:10, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]