A Sudanese Kingdom: an Ethnographical Study of The Jukun-speaking Peoples of Nigeria by C. K. Meek (1931) The Jukun Tribe When Ashu Manu came to the Jukun throne, presumably about the beginning of the nineteenth century, we enter the realm of reliable history, and it will clarify matters if we digress for a moment to summarize shortly the history of the Fulani of Bauchi, Gombe, and Muri, who succeeded between them in reducing the Jukun to a disorganized group of scattered villages. When Usuman dan Fodio began the Fulani Holy War at the beginning of last century he appointed lieutenants throughout the territories of Northern Nigeria to reduce the local inhabitants. In the region of Bauchi, Yakubu, one of his former pupils, was given the chief command ; while in the lower reaches of the Gongola River, and subsequently at Gombe, Buba Yero, another pupil of Usuman's, became his master's representative. Further south, Hamarua surnamed Modibo, a younger brother of Buba Yero, too...