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    HISTORY OF MIGRATIONS AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN LAFIA AREA FROM 1200 TO 1960
    (DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY FACULTY OF ARTS NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, 2019-11-25) Akwe, Musa Agbadu
    The thesis is on the migrations and peopling of Lafia Area. Lafia Area is made up of a number of peoples whose traditions indicate various periods of migrations into the area. The research work therefore tried to chronicle these peoples migrations into the area. The purpose is to have a concise document as to the migrations of these peoples into the area, the reasons for their migrations from their original homes into Lafia Area, the nature of intergroup relations that arose there from and their settlement patterns. The scope of the study therefore is from the pre-colonial to the colonial period. Using the probability sample of the population archival material; books, pamphlets, it was discovered that within this period there were different stages of migration into Lafia Area including pre-colonial migration into Lafia Area which was mainly though not solely from Kwararrafa zone, the Jihad period and the colonial period. It was also discovered that these peoples developed different settlement patterns and forms of intergroup relations between them. The study concluded that the peopling of the area was mainly a product of immigration and that the migrations into Lafia Area within the Jihad and colonial periods each affected the settlement patterns and inter group relations of the area in its way. While in the Jihad period it led to increased hostilities amongst the peoples and the invaders, building of city walls, changes in economic activities, modes of marriage and enforcing Islam as a religion, the colonialists come with new migrants like Igbo and Yoruba, establishment of schools thereby producing class of educated elites, new form of marriage among others. xv