Toure Kazah-Toure

**Toure Kazah-Toure** (1959 - 1 July 2017) be one Nigerian academic, activist, plus pan-Africanist. Ein respect plus admiration for de founding Guinean president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, make am adopt de name "Toure". He be history lecturer den researcher insyd Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Nigeria, plus ein name dey top plenty publications.

## Early life
Dem born Kazah-Toure insyd 1959 for Atyapland, Northern Region, British Nigeria (wey now dey part of Southern Kaduna State, Nigeria), be son of Kazah Yashim, wey be de second Atyap teacher wey get formal training den de first person from Southern Zaria (wey now be Southern Kaduna) wey dem appoint for de District Council (of de defunct Northern Region) for 1954. He come from one mixed Christian plus Muslim family, wey ein poppie be Christian den some oda family members be Muslims—twelve of dem die during de 1992 Zangon Kataf crises, wey after dat matter, he turn Muslim.

## Working career
He lecture plus de History department of de Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. He" ...produce de best documentation of de nationalist struggle insyd Zangon Kataf even as he note de many contradictions he embodied." — Dr. Zuwaqhu Bonat 

## Activism
Toure take see Nationalism plus Christianity as wetin de Nigerian elite use sell out give imperialism. He comot from Nationalism enter Pan-Africanism, den begin follow de epistemic community wey dem dey call Council for de Development of Social Science Research insyd Africa (CODESRIA). From early times, he dey involve in organising people for ein area make dem support de radical movement, den people begin call am "PRP". He use strategic thinking plus plan well for de platform wey dey run de Students’ Union for Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria—wey be de Movement for Progressive Nigeria (MPN)—even when he still be student.

## Academic publications

; Sole author

He author de following:

* "Inter-Ethnic Relations, Conflicts and Nationalism in Zango Katab Area of Northern Nigeria: Historical Origins and Contemporary Forms" (1995) (A paper presented at the 8th CODESRIA General Assembly, Dakar, Senegal.)

* "The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflicts and Governance in Southern Kaduna, Nigeria: [De]Constructing a Contested Terrain" (1999)

* "Ethno-religious Conflicts in Kaduna State" (2003)

* "A Discourse on the Citizenship Question in Nigeria" (2005)

* "Transcending Myths and Mystifications: Challenge of Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Northern Nigeria in the 21st Century" (A paper presented at the 21st CODESRIA General Assembly, 5-9 December, 2011, Rabat, Morocco.)

; Co-author

He sanso a co-author insyd de following works:

* "Ethno-religious Conflicts in Northern Nigeria" (co-authored with Professor Jibrin Ibrahim)

* *Inclusive citizenship and democratic governance in Nigeria* in "The geographies of citizenship in Nigeria" (2003)

* "Beyond State Failure and Collapse: Making the State Relevant in Africa" (2007)

* *Identity Conflicts: Belonging and Exclusion in Zangon Katab* in  "Citizenship and Indigeneity Conflicts in Nigeria" (2012).

* *The Imposition of British Colonialism on Atyapland, 1902-1928*; and *The Atyap Anti-Colonial Movement, 1929-1960* in "A Short History of the Atyap" (2019).

* "newsfrom the Nordic Africa Institute" (2020)

## Conferences
He be mentioned insyd conferences such as:

* African State-Formation and Bureaucracy in Comparative Perspective conference: Held between 16 – 18 September 2013 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

## Death
He die of a long ailment at 1:30 PM on 1 July 2017, at de age of 58.

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