Mahmud Modibbo Tukur

**Mahmud Modibbo Tukur** (1944-1988) masanin tarihin Najeriya ne, masani kuma shugaban kungiyar malaman jami'o'i (ASUU) na 4 na kasa.Tukur ya kasance shugaban sashin tarihi kuma shugaban tsangayar fasaha da zamantakewa na jami'ar Ahmadu Bello a lokacin da ya rasu a ranar 15 ga Nuwamba 1988 a Zaria.

## Rayuwa
A lokacin da ya ke Jami’ar Ahmadu Bello,ya gana kuma ya yi karatu a wajen wasu jiga-jigan Masana Tarihi irin su Farfesa Abdullahi Smith da Farfesa Yusufu Bala Usman wadanda suka hada baki suka kula da karatunsa na digiri na uku a kan “The Imposition of British Colonial Domination on Sokoto Caliphate,Borno and Neighboring States (1897). -1914):Sake Fassarar Tushen Mulkin Mallaka”.Tun da farko dai batun Tukur ya kasance kan rawar da sarakuna suka taka a Arewacin Najeriya a karni na 20 amma a lokacin bincikensa ya yanke shawarar canza batun. Babban abin da ya yi tasiri a cikin shawararsa shi ne "raguwar bayyana yanayin al'ummomi da siyasar Arewacin Najeriya kafin mulkin mallaka na Birtaniya, da kuma dalilin da ya sa/dalili na mulkin mallaka na Birtaniya kamar yadda binciken da Margey Perham,Robert Heussler,SJ Hogben ya yi.AHM Kirk-Greene,HS Hogendorn da sauransu".Wani bincike da ya keɓe a matsayin babban abu shine Habila.Dissertation na O.Anjorin na digiri na uku wanda aka mika wa Jami'ar London a 1965. A yayin da Tukur ya ci gaba da karatunsa,kungiyar masu jarrabawar sun inganta karatunsa daga digirin digirgir (MA) zuwa digirin digirgir (PhD) bayan sun gamsu da aikin nasa.Farfesa Yusufu Bala Usman ya bayyana cewa binciken shi ne "kyakkyawan karatun digirin digirgir (PhD) da kowa ya rubuta,a ko'ina a duniya,ta kowane fanni na tarihin Najeriya tun 1960". 

Mahmud Tukur a matsayinsa na ’yan kwadago ya shiga ya jagoranci zanga-zangar da aka fara tun daga shekarar 1981.A waccan shekarar ne aka samu rikicin dalibai kan zargin rashin gudanar da kwangilar abinci,a wani bangare na kwamitin da aka dorawa alhakin gudanar da bincike kan rikicin,ya yi kakkausar suka ga mahukuntan da ke kokarin dora wa shugabannin daliban da malaman makaranta laifi.Wannan ya sa ya fara shiga harkokin siyasar jami’a daga baya ya zama mataimakin shugaban kasa sannan kuma shugaban kungiyar ASUU A wannan shekarar ne ya jagoranci yajin aikin ASUU na farko a fadin kasar tun zamanin gwamnatin Yakubu Gowon dangane da ‘yancin cin gashin kan jami’o’i da dimokuradiyya.   Kungiyar ASUU ta kuma bukaci da a mayar da malaman da aka kora saboda hannu a zanga-zangar Ali-Must-Go na 1978.A karkashin jagorancinsa,ASUU ta kulla alaka ta kut-da-kut da sauran manyan kungiyoyin kwadago na kasar nan kamar kungiyar kwadago ta Najeriya NLC da kungiyar dalibai ta kasa (NANS).   A shekarar 1984,kungiyar kwadago ta Soviet Union of Educational and Science Workers' Union (ESWU) ta gayyace Dr.Mahmud Tukur zuwa USSR amma ya kasa halartan tura tsohon shugaban ASUU na kasa Prof.Biodun Jeyifo maimakon ya wakilci ASUU.

## Ayyuka
* Mahmud Modibbo Tukur: *British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914. A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources*. Dakar, Amalion Publishing, 2016. 
* *The Essential Mahmud. Selected Writings of Mahmud Modibbo Tukur*, edited by Dr.Tanimu Abubakar. Zaria, Abu Press, 1990 WorldCat

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