Sa’adu Abubakar Gambe (B. Sc, PGDE:)
Sa’adu Abubakar Gambe (B. Sc, PGDE:) I was born in January 1946 in the spring (kodde saduje) in Farang Rai, then an anguwan (ward) in Jada District of the former Trust Territory. My father, Malam Bakari, (Abubakar) was born about two and a half decade earlier in Gambe, a Chiefdom (Raiders and Refugees: History of Chamba a 1750-1950 by R. Fardon pp151). His father, Gangdaken was the twelve Chief of Gambe. My father left Gambe at the age of twelve years after the death of their father, GANGDAKEN. He left his birthplace to join his senior sister who was married to a faraway Fulani Ardo in a faraway Kugama, a Fulani settlement before Mayo Belwa now the district and the local government headquarters was established. Before my father moved to his sister in Kugama, he along with his other siblings were assigned to their uncles for proper upbringing. But as was the custom, assigned children were usually maltreated and even sometimes sold into slavery as a personal property. Sensing th