By Ndagi Abdullahi

On the 22nd of October 2003 President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria invited the UK High Commissioner to the Olokun Festival at Badagry, Lagos. Obasanjo asked the UK to retrieve and return the original Olokun figurine back… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

I belong to the Dzwakwa family of Patigi. Our pure Nupe, non-Fulani, royal bloodline runs back to Etsu Zhimada through Tsudi to Etsu Yisa known to Hausa chroniclers as Sarkimai Sakandami or the King with the Cross.… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

My grandfather, Major Ianfield, was a member of the Royal Niger Company force that conquered the Bida in 1897. He subsequently became obsessed with Bida and the Nupe Nation.

So my grandfather befriended the royalty, griots and… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

A 27 year old Christian Nupe girl from Essan, I inherited the love of culture from my mother’s love for Ibo culture. That was why I joined a Nupe Day committee last year.  This year’s 2013’s… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

My grandfather was schizophrenic. From being pro-Nupe he became anti-Nupe. Nobody knew whatever came over him.

His name is Gana. He called me Ganagi.

He told me what happened: that he became possessed by his alter ego… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

This is the year 3313AD and I am the Shaba Nupe, the Number Two Most Powerful Man in the world. Today KinNupe is the most powerful nation in the world. The entire world is today dominated by… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

I had my cadet training, in 1963, in the USA.

I met Vararo Segura, alias Babafemi, in the USA. He was a high priest of the Yoruba religion of Ifa. A middle aged Chicagoan White man, actually… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

Seven Kilometers on your way out of the city of Bida, to your left, on the Bida-Kataeregi-Minna road, is the large, flat-top hill I refer to as the ‘Kilometer 7 Hill’. The story below took place on… Continue reading →

By Ndagi Abdullahi

On the 29th of November, 1943, I embarked on the long trek to Dzwajiwo, a village between Patigi and Lade.  KoloManako, my childhood friend, is from Dzwajiwo. In the 1900s we attended the Qur’anic school of… Continue reading →

By Dr. Ndagi Abdullahi

Millennia ago the entire world made annual pilgrimage to the Zuma Rock when the Zuma Rock was still in the Lapai Province of KinNupe. A Bamyam Buddha-like colossus of Nnakun, the Bini Guardian Mother Goddess of… Continue reading →