KIRK-GREENE, A. H. M.2024-03-132024-03-131958https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1398The history of Adamawa Province presents a straightforward and vivid picture of the Province as an officer in the Nigerian Administration has come to know it during several years ofservice and study devoted to its interests and problems. He describes its mountains and waterways, the character and occupations of its peoples, the political and economic conditions of the present day. He also sketches, in an equally lively manner, the history of the area over the past 150 years—a period in which it was the scene of the rise and warfare of the Fulani kingdoms, became of increasing interest to European trading firms, and was laid claim to by three different European powers within the short space of twenty-five years. For this part of his book the author draws on the works of French, German, and British travellers and explorers, on the reports and records of administrators and trading companies, and on Fulani texts and traditions, using verbatim quotations many of which are here translated for the first time. While making no claim to exhaustive historical research or the presentation of new ethnographical material, this record of the varying fortunes of the territory, of the life of its peoples, the efforts and endurance of its explorers and the achievements of the early administrators, is of particular interest when the pattern of economic and political life in Nigeria is again being rapidly transformed.general description; ethnological notes; exploration; the royal Niger company;the British occupation; war and peace; some later travelers;. the development of general administration; history of Adamawa division; history of Muri division; history of Numan division; leaves from the provincial diary; valediction; Adamawa bibliography.enBook