Studies in the History of Plateau State, Nigeria

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-57
Prologue to Art History in Plateau State....Pages 58-66
Movements of Peoples in Pengana District from Earliest Times to 1960....Pages 67-84
Proverbs as a Mirror of Traditional Birom Life and Thought....Pages 85-89
Towards a Yergam History: Some Explorations....Pages 90-97
The Goemai and their Neighbours: an Historical Analysis....Pages 98-107
The Alago Kingdoms: a Political History....Pages 108-122
The Gwandara Settlements of Lafia to 1900....Pages 123-135
Plateau Societies’ Resistance to Jihadist Penetration....Pages 136-150
The Lowlands Salt Industry....Pages 151-178
Tin Mining on the Plateau before 1920....Pages 179-190
The Fulani Settlement of Butu, Slavery and the Trade in Slaves....Pages 191-205
Colonialism Resisted....Pages 206-223
The Growth of Islam and Christianity: the Pyem Experience....Pages 224-241
Some Changing Patterns of Ngas Response to Christianity....Pages 242-253
Changes and Continuities 1906–39....Pages 254-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-288