The Mambilla or Mambila people of Nigeria live on the Mambilla Plateau (in 'Sardauna' local government area (formerly, Mambilla LGA) of Taraba State in...
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Mambilla Plateau (redirect from Mambila Plateau)
1960s. Mambila people Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve Bantu expansion Mambilla Plateau. Wikimapia.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-09. Chapter IX. The Mambila, David...
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Mambila massacre was a reported 2017 massacre of Fulani herdsmen in Mambila Plateau, Nigeria. The nature of the killings is disputed, and few independent...
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Mambila is a dialect chain stretching across Nigeria and Cameroon. It is one of the Mambiloid languages, a branch of Benue–Congo. Notable dialects are...
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Mararaba, The Rafin Kada-Gembu Rd southeast from Donga via Mararaba, and The Mambila-Plateau Rd. Airports include Jalingo Airport The major occupation of the...
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in western Cameroon. Among the best documented is its practice by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria, in which the actions of spiders or crabs...
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who mostly live in northern part of Central African Republic. Among the Mambila of northern Cameroon, in regard to "Inheritance of wives: both levirates...
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2007, only four people spoke this language. All of them were elderly. The Mambila language, also known as Mvop, has instead supplanted Njerep in casual use...
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the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest group is Mambila (there is also a small Mambila population...
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Efik Bendi: Boki Bantoid (see below) Bantoid Mambiloid: Njoyame, Nizaa, Mambila, Kwanja, Bung, Kamkam, Vute Tivoid: Njwande, Tiv, Iyive, Iceve, Evand,...
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Church of Nigeria Anabaptist Church of the Brethren in Nigeria Baptist Mambila Baptist Convention of Nigeria Nigerian Baptist Convention Catholic Catholic...
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Sister exchange (section Mambila)
on the plateau region of Benin (Mbelime), Nigeria and Cameroon (Tiv, Mambila); it is also used in DRC and Uganda (Amba, Mbuti); and on the border between...
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autochthonous names to avoid a distortion of their history and identity. The Mambila people make up the largest single ethnic group in the town, followed by...
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Yukuben, Akan, Anyi, Ewe, Igbo T, H, M, L Gban, Wobe, Munzombo, Igede, Mambila, Fon T, H, M, L, B Ashuku (Benue–Congo), Dan-Santa (Mande) PA/S Mandinka...
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David Zeitlyn and others on African Divination systems: Africa Divination: Mambila and others Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Divination" . Catholic Encyclopedia...
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African level-tone languages—such as Yoruba, with three pitch levels, and Mambila, with four—may be better suited to study the role of absolute pitch in...
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Fulfulde Gera Hausa Huba Izere Jarawa Kamwe Kanembu Kanuri Karai-karai Mafa Mambila Margi South Margi Mumuye Ngizim Nigerian Sign Language Saya (Zaar) Shuwa...
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Bronzes, 16th–18th century, Nigeria. Mask from Burkina Faso, 19th century Mambila figure, Nigeria The creation of sculptures in Ethiopia and Eritrea can...
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Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha (1944-02-13) 13 February 1944 (age 80) Gembu (Mambila Plateau), Adamawa, Nigeria Nationality Nigerian Education Yelwa Government...
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rest of the province, largely due to the highly concentrated Mambila and Konja of the Mambila Mountains and the Vute and Pere of the Gotel Mountains. The...
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were born in the 1940s. Twendi is a Mambiloid language belonging to the Mambila group. Speakers consider Twendi to be a dialect of Kwanja, but lexical...
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Eggon Gbagyi-Gbari Ham Hun-Saare Huba Igede Idoma Igala Jukun Kamberi Mambila Marghi Mumuye Ngas Mada Nupe Tangale Tarok Tiv Yoruba (Okun) Zaar (Guus)...
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Bruce (2003). "Ethnogenesis and Fractal History on an African Frontier: Mambila-Njerep-Mandulu". The Journal of African History. 44 (1): 117–138. doi:10...
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Mambila peoples. Cambridge Anthropology, 9(2):42-57. (2005 revision) Blench, Roger. 2005. Conflict and Co-operation: Fulɓe Relations with the Mambila...
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transition to Colonial rule and the introduction of Christianity among Mambila people in Cameroon. Konaka is a variant of Kwunakal (pronounced kwúnákàl)...
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Church of Nigeria Anabaptist Church of the Brethren in Nigeria Baptist Mambila Baptist Convention of Nigeria Nigerian Baptist Convention Catholic Catholic...
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Church of Nigeria Anabaptist Church of the Brethren in Nigeria Baptist Mambila Baptist Convention of Nigeria Nigerian Baptist Convention Catholic Catholic...
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Methods of divination (category Articles containing Cameroon Mambila-language text)
(Greek murmēx, ant + manteía, prophecy) nggàm: by spider or crab behavior (Mambila nggàm, divination) ophidiomancy/ophiomancy: by snakes behavior (Greek ophis...
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Mambai East Timor (Dili District) Christianity → Catholicism Mambila Niger–Congo → Mambila Mambilla Plateau (Nigeria, Cameroon) Somyev Traditional African...
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Mambila-Konja, Mambila Cameroun Mambila tʃɛ́n fàl taɡár neà tîn téndʒɛ́n (5+ 1) tébɛl (5+ 2) téndɛle (5+ 3) tárɛ̀neà (5+ 4) julà Mambiloid, Mambila-Konja...
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