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Some years back before 1500, many of modern Nigeria settlement’s was divided into states identified with contemporary ethnic groups names. These early states included the Nupe Kingdom, Igala Kingdom, Kanem-Borno Empire, Igbo Kingdom of Nri , Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire the Yoruba city-states including the Kingdom of Ife, and the Hausa States. Numerous small states … Read more
ETSU NUPE ON SALLAH PROCESSION, OLD NUPE KINGDOM The story of the Niger Company campaign has been often written in Book of S.F Nadel. Political History Of Nupe Kingdom Between 1870 and 1890 the Royal Niger Company had established trading-posts all along the river, its northernmost posts being situated on Nupe territory. Shortly after the … Read more
Nupe People In the 1860s many of the most powerful and richest people in Lagos were Nupe people. These included Shitta Bey, James Macaulay Babington, Madam Tinubu, Balogun Ali, the Oshodi family, the Aguda families, the Saros families, and others. ALSO SEE: The History Of The Nupe People Interestingly all of these Nupe Lagosians visited … Read more
It was British historians like Professor Robin Law, swayed by Reverend Samuel Johnson’s pretentious History of the Yorubas, who invented the claim that by the 1690s Oyo had become the greatest Empire in pre-Colonial Nigeria.¹ But all the earliest writers on Yoruba, including the Danmasanin Katsina² and Sultan Bello in the 1830s,³ never mention any … Read more
LATE MALLAM MUHAMMADU JIMADA(FIRST NAIBI NUPE)(1882 -1949)BRIEF PROFILE, LIFE, HUMANITARIAN ACTVITIES AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EARLY DEVELOMENT OF EDUCATION IN NUPELAND AND NORTHERN NIGERIA Late Mallam Muhammadu Jimada Naibi was born in 1882 to the family of Mallam Muhammadu Shafii Alfa Chado who was a Chief Judge of Bida Emirate and the same time, … Read more
May 19, marks the birthday of Malcolm X who was born on May 19, 1925 Malcolm X was assassinated on the 21st of February, 1965, exactly 56 years ago today The Nupe Short Story below is in celebration of Malcolm X, one of the Greatest Black Americans ever: Nma Shaba Malcolm X in KinNupe Nupe … 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
The city of Agenebode in Etsako Local Government Area of Edo State is today considered to be a non-Nupe town inhabited by and belonging to the Uwanno people who speak the Etsako language. Whenever the history of Agenebode is being recanted today no mention is made, whatever, of any Nupe involvement in the past of … Read more
Today we will list the top 10 most powerful kings in Nigeria and also the first class kings in Nigeria, In Ancient times. Before the British colonization of Nigeria, there were powerful kings in Nigeria who were seen as demi-gods who were said to have great influence and control over their subjects and on the … Read more
NUPE PEOPLE; NIGERIA`S FAMOUS BEADS MAKING PEOPLE IN AFRICA. The Nupe people are called different names by various tribes in Nigeria, the Yoruba people refer to them as Tapa/Takpa, the Hausas call them Nufawa (Plural) or Banufe (Singular). The neighbouring Gbagyi people (Gwari/Gbari) refer to them as Anupeyi. The Nupe people refer themselves as Nupenchizhi … 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