Originally published in 1954, this book is a pentrating study of Nupe religion and the increasing influence that Islam has had on indigenous forms of worship.
... Nupe life has been jolted by the shocks of Western civilization . The rapidity and magnitude of these changes make any attempt to describe Nupe culture in its emerging or current form a dif- ficult , if not futile , exercise . In ...
... Nupe principalities gained the upper hand over their more numerous Yorùbá neighbors. Since horse breeding was not effective in the Nupe homeland because of trypanosomiasis infections, the Nupe militarist leaders had to use the imported ...
... Nupe kingdom was never a culturally homogeneous and distinct society . Leaving aside the dialect and cultural differences between those who would call themselves Nupe , there were a variety of non - Nupe communities within the polity ...
... Nupe history and culture . It seemed to me that the study of indigenous Nupe models for or- ganizing and managing cultural diversity would be a base from which to ini- tiate an ongoing original contribution to the field . I decided to ...
... Nupe wars, which occurred in several phases between 1810 and 1857, began as a civil war between members of the Etsu Nupe (Nupe kings) royal family. However, foreign Muslim clerical immigrants and revolutionary jihadists from Sokoto to ...
... Nupe. The focal period for Nupe (also known as the Bida Emirate, Fulani-Nupe, Kin Nupe [Land of Nupe]) is CE 1837-1897. Nadel (1942: 69-146) divides the history of the Nupe kingdom into two parts, an earlier mythical period with a heroic ...
... Nupe AFRICA , WESTERN . Northern Courts , under Staircase , near Central Entrance to Horticultural Gardens ... Nupe . 6 A tobe of finer quality . 7 A white tobe with plaits , from Nupe . 8 Striped trowsers , Nupe or Hausa make . 9 ...
... Nupe . 6. A tobe of finer quality . 7. A white tobe , with plaits , from Nupe . 8. Striped trowsers , Nupe or Hausa make . 9-10 . Common cloth , for women , from Bonu . 11. A woman's wrapper , made in Nupe . 12. A woman's wrapper , from ...
... ( NUPE ) NUPE originated as the National Union of Corporation Workers in 1908 when it broke away from the Municipal Employees ' Association ( MEA ) . The MEA was one of the three unions that amalgamated in 1924 to form what is now known ...