Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe

List Of Books Published By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe

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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

ONITSHA THE NUPE CITY By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe

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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

ODUDUWA WAS NOT A YORUBA MAN By Ndagi Abdullahi

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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

Apa Kororofa: The Nupe Origins Of The Igala

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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

Rich Nupe Lagosians Of The 19th Century

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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

THERE WAS NO OYO EMPIRE By Ndagi Abdullahi

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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