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Over 90% the population of Brazil today is of Nupe descent. More than half the population of Brazil was initially made up of Nupe slaves and their descendants who were shipped through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Americas. Many of the people recorded or documented as Nago, Takua, Aratako, Males, Minas, and even as … Read more
Below are the list of books published by Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe on 12th of November, 2010. Note: there are still hundreds of book that were not mentioned here Philosophy Books 1. The Secrets of Socrates: The Greek Philosophers were Black African Negroes! 2. Ars Memorativa: Orality is Sacred, Writing is Evil 3. Murdering Machiavelli: Confounding the Claims … Read more
In former times the Nupe Empire covered large areas variously ranging from today’s Sokoto State and Kebbi State through Niger State and Kwara State down to Edo State and Anambra State. Onitsha, in today’s Anambra State, was originally a Nupe town known with the Nupe name Nitsa.¹ Ambassador Solomon Adama Yisa wrote that Onitsha was … Read more
Nupe Reverend Samuel Johnson wrote in his ‘History of the Yorubas’ that Oduduwa came from outside Yorubaland.¹ Oba Obateru Akinruntan the monarch of Ugbo kingdom in Ondo State stated that Oduduwa was not a Yoruba man.² And Dr. Jacob Abdullahi wrote that even the name Oduduwa is not a Yoruba name.³ If Oduduwa came from … 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
Olivia Temple,¹ Professor E.O. Erim,² Akpenpuun Dzurgba,³ and other have related that the Igala traditions maintain that the Igala people originated from a prehistoric kingdom of Apa. But, Ambassador Solomon Adama Yisa wrote that Apa was an ancient Nupe kingdom located in Nupeland.⁴ Apa was known to Nupe historians as Epa.⁵ Alhaji Saidu Ibrahim Madaki … 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
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
In 1979 the Federal Government at Lagos asked General Garba Duba to suggest a name for the first Civilian Governor of Niger State in the then forthcoming 1979 general elections. General Garba Duba, a Hausa man from Kontagora, said the first Civilian Governor of Niger State must be a Nupe man because the Nupe people … 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
The Origination Of Igala Kingdom In 1854 Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther was told by the Igala people that their capital city of Idah was originally founded by an Etsu Nupe from the Nupe city of Raba.¹ According to that story, the origin of the Igala people can be traced to a time when the Etsu … Read more