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[San Bushman Carrying His Two Kids] The Bushmen are the remnants of Africa’s oldest cultural group, genetically the closest surviving people to the original Homo sapiens core from which the Negroid people of Africa emerged. Bushmen are small in stature generally with light yellowish skin, which wrinkles very early in life. Bushmen traditionally lived in … Read more
Kakanda People Kakanda History The Kakanda land known as Muye , was founded as far back as 1480 which is equivalent to 900 A.H in Islamic calendar .The historical origin of the Kakanda is traced to the great grand children of Mallam Mahmud a great warrior , left Egypt for world exploration , eighty ( … Read more
The Nigeria Military Coup Attempt of February 13, 1976. Led By Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka Buka Suka Dimka ( ? – May 15, 1976), a Lieutenant Colonel in the Nigerian army ( an officer of the army physical training corps ), led the February 13, 1976 abortive military coup against the government of General … Read more
THE BASSA NGE NUPE PEOPLE by Áma Ndagi Abdullahi The Bassa Nge people are a Nupe people through and through , Any discussion on the origin or history of the Bassa Nge people must start on this premise , namely , that they left Central KinNupe as a Nupe people relatively not long ago . … Read more
The true ethnicity of the people of Bida is virtually undecipherable. The present people of Bida are not Fulani, Nupe, Yoruba, Igala, Hausa, Igbira, Kanuri, Arab, etc, etc – they are all these various people combined in one. Bida is a melting pot, to borrow an American epithet, of all these people from all parts … Read more
Greek mythology’s nine Muses served as models for various artistic pursuits, including the arts, and later developed a tight relationship with music in particular. In the 1630s, the word “music” as we know it today first appeared. Its predecessors include the Old English “musike” of the mid-13th century, the Old French music of the 12th … Read more
Articulation Of Nupe Witchcraft Abstract The political economy of occult belief in Africa can highlight hidden social and political conflict in times of transition which remain otherwise undetected. This has been demonstrated in taking the development of witchcraft accusations over time as indicator, and the Nupe of Northern Nigeria as an example. A tentative long-term … Read more
NUPE TIMELINE 1700 BC – Egyptian pharaoh visited KinNupe with a contingent of 700,000 people. 1400 BC – Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great engaged the service of Nupe witchdoctors and wizards. 800 BC – The Nupe practiced Nok culture which spread from Central KinNupe to the Jos Plateau. 600 BC – Cambyses I, the king … Read more