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 our own and one or two other published texts that relate directly to Sukur. The former group includes (a) references to papers that are available online and (b) versions of other papers in the final form they were submitted to the editors of journals. Texts in the latter category are of course not facsimiles of the published works but the content differs only in minor editorial detail, pagination, and illustrations (which we have however reproduced separately wherever possible).

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 texts (to be added later)

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.