A Comprehensive Ethnographic Overview of the Muri Mountains
Jörg Adelberger
A Collection of Ethnographic and Historical Data from Fieldwork 1989-1993
Publication details
Series of 18 pdfs to download
Mandaras Publishing 2024
Ramsgate, Kent (UK)
ISBN 978-1-906168-16-2
Overview map source is: Oxford Atlas for Nigeria (1968), click on map to enlarge.
Ethnic groups in the Muri Mountains: click on map to enlarge.
The complete publication consists of 18 pdfs. You can download them individually. Each of the pdfs represents an ethnic group in the encircled area on the above map.
Download the Bangwinji pdf here
Download the Munga-Leelau pdf here
About this publication
The Muri Mountains are a chain of sandstone mountains stretching across the frontiers of the federal states of Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba and Adamawa, running from west to east on the northern banks of the upper Benue valley. They are home to 18 ethnic groups whose languages belong to various distinct linguistic groups representing the Chadic family of Afro-Asiatic and two branches of the Niger-Congo language family, namely Adamawa and Benue-Congo. Very little is known about the peoples of this area, their cultures or their history. This comprehensive survey fills a major gap in the ethnography of Northern Nigeria.
The author was a member of an interdisciplinary research project from 1989-1993 and carried out anthropological fieldwork among
the peoples of the Muri Mountains.
(See endorsement by Richard Fardon for more details)