The Mumuye Experience

Traditional Dancers, hunters and warriors from Manang, Kwajji chiefdom, Yorro LGA Taraba, Nigeria at the events 2004 Jalingo

Mumuye women were not to beaten. Here they mobilized from Jalingo, Mile six, Golong and LANKAVIRI to show their colours.

An old man from Doo spinning yarn to make threads for the weaving of ''Lantang'' Mumuye traditional clothing. Mumuye Cultural day, Mile Six 2004 Jalingo. M uch has been said about the Mumuye man. How he has faired from the ancient world to the present.  Through the precolonial times of slave raids and intertribal warfare.  The British colonial times in Northern Nigeria and its inherent oppressive Indirect Rule.  Coming into Independent Nigeria's chequered contemporary political dispensation, and to date. As humans in the near society, what ideals were these people known for? A Mumuye was known generally as a hardy, morally and physically upright human. He lived off the land, laboured and toiled to meet his personal and family needs. He produced crops and livestock as mainstay of his economy.  The Mumuye were hardly traders of the itenerent nature that we see in many a tribes around. Trading entailed some degree of dishonesty which really went contrary to...

From High hills of DOO Monkin Chiefdom, Zing LGA Taraba Nigeria these traditional war dancers came to cultural events at Mile six in 2004.

Kwajji right of passage for young men and women coming of age Old Kwajji, Kwajji chiefdom, Yorro LGA Taraba Nigeria 2004.

YOTI warriors from Yoti District Lau LGA, Taraba Nigeria in procession at the Mumuye Cultural display, Mile Six Jalingo 2004

Mumuye wrestling demonstrated by Lube Youth from Apawa Lau LGA Taraba, Nigeria. 2004 Cultural Events Jalingo.

Sagbe cultural troupe from Monkin Chiefdom Zing LGA, Taraba, Nigeria.

Way back in 2004 or there about, a Mumuye patriotic movement arose. It was called Mumuye Cultural Association. That  time, the group organized a cultural event to show the beauty and variety of the Mumuye race. I had a camera then, and with a sense of recording history I clicked on.  I'll be releasing the pictures as a gift following my 59th birthday which I promised the Mumuye youth Alliance Facebook group. Java meka, Kwajji Chiefdom, Yorro LGA, Taraba, Nigeria.