Sokoto's administrative capacity was a good one, a class of good commercial elites, awesome cottage industries capable of mass producing rifles, some financial backers and access to coal. Sokoto had a large population and was generally stable, with a flourishing political/intellectual elite that was catered for by classes of artisans. Sokoto had a flourishing textile and dye industry, entire towns such as Kura were devoted to the textile production while Babba Karofi to dye production. If you could somehow give Sokoto more unity and stability, a higher population, more of the pre- industrial needed infrastructure and technology and maybe do a few changes to the Scramble and Partition of Africa (delay it or stop it in it's tracks e.g. have European imperialism in Africa but not on the grand scale in OTL instead to have a larger part of Africa never colonized) could we see an Industrialized Sokoto?