gëzik ta mbangara ta kë ndahay më mburum
Midden they treat+me they particle+of+specification people in community
The villagers treated me like rubbish (as I had no child)

Sources

This page offers access to a variety of sources on Sukur. First of these is a bibliography of published, archival, and World Wide Web materials relating to Sukur and its neighbors.

Second, we have attempted to provide easy access to published texts that relate directly to Sukur by supplying references and, where possible, actual texts in .pdf format.

Available online

Smith, A. and N. David. 1995. The production of space and the house of Xidi Sukur. Current Anthropology 36 (3): 441-71.
Available online through JSTOR (Stable URL= http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28199506%2936%3A3%3C441%3ATPOSAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3) and through other organizations.

David, N. 1998. The ethnoarchaeology and field archaeology of grinding at Sukur, Adamawa State, Nigeria. African Archaeological Review 15 (1): 13-63.
Available online through Kluwer (http://www.kluweronline.com)

PDF versions of text

Kirk-Greene, A.H.M. 1960. The kingdom of Sukur - a Northern Nigerian Ichabod. Nigerian Field 25 (2): 67-96. Reproduced with the kind permission of the author and of the Nigerian Field.

This paper brought Sukur to the attention of the world and remained the primary source into the 1990s. In it Anthony Kirk-Greene combines information he collected at Sukur in 1954 with archival material by Kulp, McBride and Shaw written in the 1930s.

Other references

David, N. and J. Sterner. 1995. Constructing a historical ethnography of Sukur, part I: demystification. Nigerian Heritage 4: 11-33.

David, N. and J. Sterner. 1996. Constructing a historical ethnography of Sukur, part II: iron and the 'classless industrial' society. Nigerian Heritage 5: 11-33. (Figures and Plates)

David, N. and J.A. Sterner. 1999. Wonderful society: the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara chiefdoms and the nature of prehistory. In Beyond chiefdoms: pathways to complexity in Africa, S.K. McIntosh (ed.), pp. 97-109.

Reed, Captain L.N. (translator) 1927. 'Translation of Diary of Hamman Yaji, D.A. Madagali 1912-1927.' National Archives Kaduna: Yolaprof:ACC-14.
This is our transcription from a photocopy of the original text. Another has now been published by Vaughan, J.H. and A.H.M. Kirk-Greene, (eds.). 1995. The diary of Hamman Yaji: chronicle of a West African Muslim ruler. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Sterner, J.A. and N. David. 2003. Action on matter: the history of the uniquely African tamper and concave anvil pot-forming technique. Journal of African Archaeology 1 (1): 1-36.

Items of Sukur women's costume readied for the dances at initiation.