Not to be confused with Kaduna South Senatorial District.
Cultural region in Kaduna State Nigeria
Southern Kaduna
Gurara/Nok
Southern Zaria
Cultural region
Nok plastic head on a truck during the SK Fest 2023, Township Stadium, Kafanchan
Nickname:
Chongai S/K
Part of
Kaduna State Nigeria
- Settlement of Nok culture
c. 1500 BC
- Nok culture area
c. 1500 BC - c. 500 AD
- Kwararafa confederacy
c. 900 - c. 1700
- Northern Region British Nigeria
(later Middle Belt, Nigeria)
1903-4
(1950s)
- Southern Zaria
c. 1900
- Nerzit region
c. 1950
- Southern Kaduna
c. 1990
- Gurara/Nok State
proposed
Founded by
- Proto Nok people
Capital
• Kafanchan (Economic capital)
Composed of
List
Chikun
Jaba
Jema'a
Kachia
Kaduna South
Kagarko
Kajuru
Kaura
Kauru
Lere
Sanga
Zangon Kataf
Government
• Type
• Chief
Agwam
Agwom (Agom)
B'gwam
Ere
Esu (Sa)
Etum
Kpop
Ngbiar
Odyong
Pukgom
Res
Tum
Uchu
• Clan heads • Village heads
Area
• Land
26,000 km2 (10,000 sq mi)
Population
(2016 estimate)
• Total
4,564,100
Demographics
• Major indigenous languages
Adara-Kulu
Atsam-Bishi-Timap
Gbagyi-Gbari
Hyam-Gyong
Ninzam-Nikyob-Nindem
Tinɔr
Tugbiri-Niragu-T'kurmi-Tivori
Tyap-Jju
• Major non-indigenous languages
English
Fulfulde
Hausa
Igbo
Nigerian Pidgin
Yoruba
Time zone
WAT
Southern Kaduna (Tyap: A̱tak Ka̱duna[ǝtagkǝduna]ⓘ; Jju: Ka̱tak Ka̱duna[kǝtagkǝduna]ⓘ; Hausa: Kudancin Kaduna[kudǝnt͡ʃinkəduna]ⓘ; formerly Southern Zaria)[1] is an area of the Nok Culture region inhabited by various related ethnic groups who do not identify as Hausa, living south of Zaria, Kaduna State. It is located in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Southern Kaduna consists of 12 Local Government Areas out of a total of 23 in Kaduna State.
In September 2020, the SOKAPU national publicity secretary, Luka Binniyat, in a statement he signed said the region makes up 51.2% of the entire state's population as shown in the 2006 census figures, occupying 26,000 sq. km. of the state's 46,000 sq. km. total land mass, with 57 registered ethnic nationalities of the state's 67 identified ones.[2]Angerbrandt (2015) views it as being less of a geographical identity and more of an ethnic identity concept.[3]
^Kafewo, S. (2009). "Giving Voice: Instigating Debate on Issues of Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability". Development in Practice. 19 (4/5): 678–687. doi:10.1080/09614520902866454. JSTOR 27752105. S2CID 37550776. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
^Hassan-Wuyo, Ibrahim (1 September 2020). "Southern Kaduna holds 51.2% population of Kaduna state — SOKAPU". Vanguard Nigeria. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^Angerbrandt, Henrik (7 August 2015). "Religion, ethnicity and citizenship: demands for territorial self-determination in southern Kaduna". Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 33 (2). doi:10.1080/02589001.2015.1066081. S2CID 154843125. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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