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100A PRE-COLONIAL INFLUENCE MOUNTAIN-TOP REMINANTS OF SUKUR, SETTLEMENT: NIGERIA.
Volume : 9, Issue : 2, February - 2022
Abstract : This article is set out to examine the pre-colonial influence of what was known as the “Sukur kingdom”, which was presumably to have held sway over various inhabitants and neighbouring villages around the Yadseram valley. This account of holding sway by this ethnic extraction may not be valid from the face value, as it is doubtful. Because the evidence was not only less than conclusive but raised more fundamental questions than they supposed to have answered. One of this is that there is no tangible explanation about the circumstances that gave rise to the conflict between them, that led to holding sway. Now this picture of a centralized Political Power which through militarism succeeded in holding sway over the neighbouring peoples in the Yadseram Valley and the plains would appear to have been stretched too far. In the first place, the one underpinning of political Power or domination, that is military Power, was conspicuously lacking. Sukur was never a formidable military Power or even a petty state. Not only was it bereft of a cavalry, the usual equipment of a predatory state in these parts, but the only known long distance raid it ever carried out ended in defeat. It is believed to have emerged as a spiritual kingdom at least not far from the beginning eighteenth century.
Keywords : Sukur Adamawa Nigeria.
Article: Download PDF Journal DOI : 14848
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This paper is concerned with what had remained of the erstwhile centre of influence known as the Sukur “kingdom”, in Nigeria, were largely decentralized and, more importantly, spiritual in character.
Vol.I 9, Issue.I 2