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Clashing Cultures, Clashing Symbols: Histories and Meanings of the Latok War

The 1930 killing of a British colonial officer, the battle of Latok, the subsequent forced evacuation of several thousand Kofyar from the Jos Plateau escarpment to the Benue plains of Nigeria figure both administrative documents oral histories. The radically different meanings ascribed to these political events are shaped conveyed by of powerful cultural symbols action. The calendar of events is not question. The names of the protagonists are known, carefully inscribed the British colonial reports for northern Nigeria or remembered the animated narrative of Dashik, an ancient, bent Kofyar who …