Undressed Adam and Eve Still Alive in Taraba, Nigeria

This may look like a screen shot from the popular movie 'The gods must be crazy' but hey!! this is real and yeah, they literally still live in the stone age. Poverty and diseases ravage their land, like locusts.
A good number of them still dress in the manner of, the Biblical Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden -- stark Unclad -- with fresh leaves for a little covering. You are welcome to the top of the Gerinjina mountain in Gashaka Local Government area of Taraba State.

It was like a story from Mars when a casual talk to the hearing of this reporter indicated that there was a community up the mountain that lived worse than those of the Koma people who were discovered in the mid-1980s by a group of National youth corps members in the then Gongola State, now split into Adamawa and Taraba states. While the Koma community resides in Adamawa State, the new Stone Age people are in Taraba State.


They are called, the Jibu people and they are descendants of the Kwarafa Kingdom who lived for centuries in nine communities scattered around on the mountains in Gashaka.

Historical accounts have it that the people lived together with their fellow brothers in the kingdom until about 1807 when Fulani Jihadists invaded the kingdom.

They were said to have run to the mountain top where they now live and are completely cut off from other tribes, and by extension the whole world. Not even the activities of the colonial masters reached them, largely because of the difficult terrain of their new abode. The mountain top is characterised by rivers, deep gullies and huge rocks.

Just like any other group of human beings, the Jibu people have their ways of life. These include collective circumcision of boys born within the same age group, a ceremony performed with the use sharp objects.

It is considered a test of strength and character for their boys not to cry during the ceremony. The circumcised are kept on bamboo beds and covered with fresh leaves that are gathered and burnt after the wound has healed.

For a young Jibu man to get a wife, he must serve the family of his bride for five years. Nonetheless, the marriage is determined by the capacity of the woman to conceive. This is measured by a dried long firewood that is set on fire for at least three months, within which if the woman does not become pregnant, the simple communication is the gods do not want the marriage.

Pregnant women work on the farms to the day of their delivery.

They have a communal life and are ruled by the Waziri Garinjina, Tann Shidin Zunbi, who confirmed in an interview with the Nigerian Compass on Saturday that maternal and child mortality rates are high among them.

The Jibu people are neither Christians nor Muslims. Rather, they believe in their own gods and the ancestors.

In an event of violation of their natural laws by any individual, animals are slaughtered to appease the land. It is also a similar story during every cropping season. The harvests are brought before the Waziri for sacrifice to the gods, after which their brand of liquor is prepared for everybody to drink in merriment. Incidentally too, the Jibu people believe that some gods are not friendly with women. Thus, throughout the period of ritual preparations, women remain indoors to avoid being exposed to the gods who could be harmful to them.

When our correspondent visited Gerinjina, their condition of living was worse than that of the much-talked about Koma people. There is no access road. They drink water with animals from the same rivers. In their scattered settlement system, there is no school around except for some missionaries who have a thatched space for that purpose but is yet to have any student. After a day's job on the farm, their women still have the task of grinding raw corn with heavy stones before food is ready for their male counterparts.


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How many tribes do we have in this country

Seriously

But if they are so cut off from civilisation, how did the second person come accross a slippers?
Did they make it themselves?

Tank u..Gud question

style$co:
Seriously

But if they are so cut off from civilisation, how did the second person come accross a slippers?
Did they make it themselves?

Why they come use leaf cover their yansh now? Shebi them be uncivilised people.
And one of them dey wear slippers self! Slippers for stone age! Wonders shall never end.
And the one wearing slippers is tieing a white cloth aroung her waist. She must be their Prime Minister!
Methinks these are just ritualists worshipping their gods.

And I won't be suprise to here that the tribe has local government chiarman, counsellor or even house of rep member.

i wonder what africa could have been like without the white man colonising it, and educating our forefathers

They drink frm same water with animals, do they also communicate with them like the real stone-age?

There was also one in Bauchi during my NYSC yrs

[quote
author=ebamma 3]i wonder what africa could have been like without the
white man colonising it, and educating our forefathers









we w'ld have been happy ignorantly with d wrong God!

Dotman01: For a young Jibu man to get a wife, he must
serve the family of his bride for five years.
Nonetheless, the marriage is determined by
the
capacity of the woman to conceive. This is
measured by a dried long firewood that is
set
on fire for at least three months, within
which
if the woman does not become pregnant,
the
simple communication is the gods do not
want
the marriage.

Chei! So I go become slave for 5years before I marry, fiiiiiive solid years? After I graduated at age forty come add anoda five years join am? Oti o. To even think of their condition of conception in order to get married is bizarre. What if there's fertility problem? They are indeed very backward.

But the other one is browsing with I pad

style$co:
Seriously

But if they are so cut off from civilisation, how did the second person come accross a slippers?
Did they make it themselves?

Missionaries probably.

...and i wonder what those two at the end are doing

I can't beliv dis...Nigeria is §ø fackin large wif dfrent tribes...only God knws ~Ho̶̲̥̅̶̷̩̥̊͡ many more are yet to be found...ermm D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ shud olso chek d bak of aso roCk too

style$co:
Seriously

But if they are so cut off from civilisation, how did the second person come accross a slippers?
Did they make it themselves?

. IT fell froM the gods

This means civility hasnt gotten to someplaces

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Africa would have been fine without the white locusts invading us. Who told you they came with the right God? Think well, my friend and stop looking at the world through the lenses of the whiteman.

Gamji007:

I guess you aren't brave enough to stick to you culture,are you?
Abeg drop the white man's gadget,put off your clothes,get a leave to cover your mojo, climb a donkey and go back to the caves and meet your Maguzawa family.

Embrace you culture fully, not just on Nairaland!

you know scientists made a new discovery. that you are an a$$hole .

what has culture got to do with civilization? The Japs,Indians and Chinese still maintain their culture and religion even though they are the oldest and most advanced civilizations today.

The whiteman has destroyed our way of life, therefore today, it is our birthright to mkae use of his inventions. today one cannot get a decent job without education to fill our stomach. The bush is empty of animals, our way of life is gone. they destroyed our system of government and livelihood. Now its our birthright to make use of their stuff to come up in life.

If today we could survive without education, I would not waste my time studying.

btw we Maguzawa dont live in caves. maybe your tribe lives in caves. we live in HOUSES.

we had one of the greatest kindoms in the past in Hausaland.

style$co:
Seriously

But if they are so cut off from civilisation, how did the second person come accross a slippers?
Did they make it themselves?

Maybe a Youth Corper could have left the slippers with them.
I served in Bauchi, and went with others on an endurance trek. We entered a village enclosed by the hills and no access to a motorable road.
So many villages like this abound in the North.