Republic of Sokoto

Heads of Sokoto

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Name - ندندند سكتو (Fulfulde) / جمهورية سوكوتو (Arabic)

Continent - Africa

Capital - Sokoto

Administration

Head of state - Chief Magistrate -----

Head of government - Prime Minister ------

Legislature - House of Elders (upper), House of Deputies (lower)

President of the House of Elders -

President of the House of Deputies -

Conserving body - College of Qadis

Caliph -

Judiciary - Supreme Court of Custom, College of Qadis

President of the Supreme Court of Custom -

Form of government - Islamic federal republic under a democratic ministerial confidential constitution

Form of law - Cambacérès Code, Sharia (fused)

Demonym - Sokotan

Geography

Area - 944,120 km^2

Largest cities

-Sokoto

-Ilorin

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Time zone -

Currency - Sokotan dinar

Demography

Population - 236,248,000

Language - Fulfulde, Arabic

Other languages

-Hausa

-Yoruba

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Religion - Islam (official)

Density - 250.23 /km^2

Symbols

National festival -

Anthem -

Motto -

Languages

Regional

Hausa

Yoruba

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History

-with French suppressing slave trade relatively earlier than OTL, more expansion southwards

-and with less intense colonialism, Sokoto is able to grab most of Yoruba lands

-with OTL Nigeria much less colonized

-eventually (in 1930s?) has a military coup which makes it egalitarian republic

-with caliph placed outside government

-Arabic and Fulfulde in weird symbiosis as official languages