Book
A chronicle of Abuja
Published for the Abuja Native Administration by the Ibadan University Press • Ibadan, Nigeria • Published In 1952 • Pages:
By: Hassan, Malam, Shuaibu, Malam, Heath, Frank L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a history and culture summary of the Emirate of Abuja by two of its officials. Abuja, the southernmost of the original seven Hausa kingdoms, is located slightly to the north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers, downstream from Nupe. The volume is divided into two main sections: the history, which is mainly an account of the kings of Abuja, and a culture summary on the land and the people. This last section contains data on farming and other occupations, trade and markets, family life, the ceremonial cycle, the political system, and some information on the pagan peoples who live within the bounds of the Emirate. The the book was written from the point of view of the natives themselves.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- History
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hausa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abuja Emirate, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Translated and arranged from the Hausa of Malam Hassan, Sarkin, Abuja, and Malam Shuaibu, Mukaddamin Makarantar, Bida [by Frank L. Heath]
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)