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 the bleak future ahead of him, the
young Bakari planned an exit from his assigned uncle. Bakari arranged with a Fulani
herdsman who usually came to GAMBE on a (ritual) l annual dry season grazing,
when most areas northwards experience dry spell. The herdsman accepted to
assist my father to escape from his uncle’s care. At the end of the dry season,
the young Bakari left GAMBE in tow of the herdsman who usually leaves at the
end of the dry spell.
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