The Dukawa of Niger: Preserving tradition and honour in modern times, by Salim Sani In Niger State and beyond Nigeria, the Dukawa people are renowned for their deep reverence for the hills, their farming lifestyle, and their rich cultural traditions. They are a people of resilience, balancing age-old customs with the demands of modernisation, their story carried in their language, rituals, and way of life. Origin The Dukawa trace their roots deep into the early waves of migration that shaped the northwestern belt of Nigeria. Oral history suggests that they moved into...