Notes on the Tribes, Provinces, Emirates and States of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria: Compiled From Official Reports (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
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The Chief is assisted by a Council of Elders, who Sit on judicial cases, and recourse may be had to sasswood ordeal. Murder is punished by death, but not necessarily that of the criminal himself it is more frequently arranged on a principle of exchange. In a case of manslaughter the bereaved family are apportioned a share of the blood - money, the remainder going to the Court. Theft is punished by flogging and a fine. Rape is punished by flogging and a fine. An adulterer is fined, but if the woman runs away with him the couple are pursued and the woman recovered; if the occurrence is frequent the co respondent is obliged to supply the aggrieved husband with a woman of his own family in exchange.
Not only each man, but each woman, has a right to take up such unoccupied lands within the village boundaries as She can farm; but sons must work on their father's farms.
Marriage is arranged by exchange, a groom giving his Sister or some other blood-relation in exchange for his bride. Should a woman leave her husband the woman for whom She was origin ally exchanged must do likewise, but if the one has children and the other has not desertion is not permitted. Should a man be without suitable female relations he may be allowed to marry, but in that case his offspring belong to his wife's family. There is no limit to the number of wives, five or six being quite common.
On the birth of an infant it is taken to the temple, where a ceremony is held, which includes much beer drinking.
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Excerpt from Notes on the Tribes, Provinces, Emirates and States of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria: Compiled From Official Reports
The Chief is assisted by a Council of Elders, who Sit on judicial cases, and recourse may be had to sasswood ordeal. Murder is punished by death, but not necessarily that of the criminal himself it is more frequently arranged on a principle of exchange. In a case of manslaughter the bereaved family are apportioned a share of the blood - money, the remainder going to the Court. Theft is punished by flogging and a fine. Rape is punished by flogging and a fine. An adulterer is fined, but if the woman runs away with him the couple are pursued and the woman recovered; if the occurrence is frequent the co respondent is obliged to supply the aggrieved husband with a woman of his own family in exchange.
Not only each man, but each woman, has a right to take up such unoccupied lands within the village boundaries as She can farm; but sons must work on their father's farms.
Marriage is arranged by exchange, a groom giving his Sister or some other blood-relation in exchange for his bride. Should a woman leave her husband the woman for whom She was origin ally exchanged must do likewise, but if the one has children and the other has not desertion is not permitted. Should a man be without suitable female relations he may be allowed to marry, but in that case his offspring belong to his wife's family. There is no limit to the number of wives, five or six being quite common.
On the birth of an infant it is taken to the temple, where a ceremony is held, which includes much beer drinking.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The compilation contained in the following pages has been made with the object of rendering available to those interested, in a small compass, at all events some of the immense stores of facts concerning the natives of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria assiduously collected by the political staff. This information is contained scattered through innumerable reports, assessment reports, annual and monthly reports, and official letters, etc., which are kept at the Secretariat and the Provincial Headquarters, and is not readily accessible, even to those who are stationed at Headquarters and are able to command the Secretariat files. To the political officer they are quite inaccessible as a whole. Though a political officer may have the completest knowledge of the Province in which he is working, I know by experience that it has been in the past extremely difficult for him to obtain knowledge of other Provinces. Thus a man may work for many years - an official life-time even - in Sokoto and yet know very little of Bassa, Yola, or Bornu, for instance. Indeed, his knowledge may very well be restricted for many years to the affairs connected with the district in which he is stationed, and may not extend to those of the Province even. To remedy this state of affairs a gazetteer is urgently required, and, though it would be presumptuous to use such a term in connection with the present work, it is the hope of the compiler that the following pages may be useful in the preparation of a complete work in the future, while at the same time affording a book of reference in which the more salient facts at all events may be found.
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