The Northern Tribes of Nigeria

Record summary

C. K. Meek's The Northern Tribes of Nigeria surveys religious ideas, divination, omens, dreams and specialist ritual roles across several northern Nigerian societies. It can generate comparative leads about how claims of hidden knowledge are institutionalized and tested—or rejected—within communities. The source is a colonial ethnography, not a psychical-research experiment, and its classifications may reflect administrative convenience more than local identity. Researchers should trace each statement to its named group and consult later studies that correct Meek's translations, typologies and assumptions.