Report by the resumed Conference on the Nigerian Constitution held in Lagos in January and February, 1954
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The Batwa: Who are They?
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Opening Paragraph There are no such people, any more than there were such people as the Philistines. In ‘L'origine du nom Fulani’, I showed that the words ‘Philistine’ and ‘Fulani’ come from a common root F-L which in the Indo-European languages means ‘foreigner, stranger, alien’…
La Nigeria
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Book Reviews
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Book reviewed in this article: Ethnology and Ethnography: The Southern Lunda and Related Peoples (Northern Rhodesia, Angola, Belgian Congo). Merran McCulloch. Bemba and Related Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. Wilfred Whitely The Coastal Tribes of the North‐Eastern Bantu (Pokomo, Ny…
Comparative Notes on Yoruba and Lucumí
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Lucumí is a term here used to refer to a language spoken in Cuba by practitioners of the religion known as Santería. In Cuba both the santeros and the language are often called Lucumí, a form of which the origin has been discussed by William Bascom. Bascom seems to have been the…
The Pilgrimage and Death of Sākūra, King of Mali
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It is recorded in a number of standard works on the western Sudan and northern Nigeria that about the year A.D. 1300 Sākūra, the usurping King of Mali, performed the pilgrimage to Mecca and was murdered by the Danakil on the return journey. Delafosse writes: ‘C'est en revenant de…
Concepts of Time among the Tiv of Nigeria
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The Integration of the new Economic Classes into Local Government in Western Nigeria
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The writer is attached to the West African Institute of Social and Economic Research. For 2½ years, he has been making a first-hand study of the traditional Yoruba system of government.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE COUNTY OF EKET, EASTERN REGION, NIGERIA
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The Nature and Structure of the Commonwealth
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The structure of the British Commonwealth of Nations is peculiar. If it did not exist, you could not invent it. Its peculiarities reveal themselves at once if we try to find an answer to what looks like a fairly simple question, namely: How do we know whether a country is inside…
Nigeria. Standing orders of the House of Representatives. (Lagos: Government Printer. 1952. Pp. 40.)
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NATIVE COURTS IN NIGERIA
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An Historical Sketch of Egba Traditional Authorities
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Opening Paragraph The Yoruba were probably first established in what is now Nigeria in the region of Nupe, whence they crossed the Niger and went southwards in search of a suitable settlement. They chose Ile-Ife where, according to tradition, they encountered no opposition from t…
Native Administration in the British African Territories. Part 1. East Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika. Part 11. Central Africa: Zanzibar, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia. Part in. West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra
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S. Herbert Frankel; Native Administration in the British African Territories. Part 1. East Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika. Part 11. Central Africa: Zanzibar,
Speech by his honour the lieutenaut-governor Northern Region of Nigeria B.E. Sharwood-Smith to the Northern House of chiefs 25th February, 1952
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Birom texts (plateau province near Jos, Nigeria)
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The Idoma Language, Idoma Wordlists, Idoma Crestomathy, ldoma Proverbs. By Major R. C. Abraham, M.A., D.Litt. Published by the Author on behalf of the Idoma Native Administration, Government of Nigeria, 1951. Pp. 272. £2
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A Genealogical Charter
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Opening Paragraph The Tiv of Northern Nigeria, who number some 800,000, believe that they are all descended from one man, Tiv, through some 14 to 17 generations of known ancestors (Fig. 1). These ancestors are constantly named in casual conversation and in discussion of serious a…
Books in review
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Islam in Ethiopia. J. S. Trimingham. (Oxford University Press: 1952.) xv + 299 pp., 25s. A Grammar of Mwera. Lyndon Harries. (Witwatersrand University Press: 1950.)x + 128 pp., map. 12/6. The Yoruba‐speaking Peoples of Southwestern Nigeria, by Daryll Forde. (Commercial Aid Printi…
Book Review: A Century in Nigeria
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