New insights into early West African communities: Archaeological archives at National Museum Jos with Prof Abubakar Sule

Owoseni, Bolaji and Sule, Abubakar Sani (2025) New insights into early West African communities: Archaeological archives at National Museum Jos with Prof Abubakar Sule. In: Society for Africanists Archaeologists (SAFA 2025), 2025-07-21 - 2025-09-28, University of Algarve, Faro Portugal.

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Abstract

The National Museum Jos, established in 1952 houses the second largest extensive legacy collection of archaeological, ethnographic, and archival materials in Nigeria, key to understanding past Nigeria’s communities. As part of the ongoing project, West African Communities as seen through Museum Collections, our research examines the museum’s largely unexplored legacy archaeological archival collections relating to the past Borno and Hausa people and communities. Through studies of these material collections, the paper will present new findings that will shed light on the region and broadly West Africa’s early social, political, and cultural system. Furthermore, we will propose new directions and methodologies for fostering valuable community engagement strategies for the development of national archaeological archives and historical reconstructions.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2025 11:30
Last Modified:	22 Sep 2025 11:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100448
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