Tribal Map of Africa including the Afizere. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Over 500,000 (2012)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Nigeria | |
| Languages | |
| Izere, Nigerian English | |
| Religion | |
| African religions, Christianity, Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Irigwe, Atyap, Bajju, Berom, Jukun, and other Platoid peoples of the Middle Belt of Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbo |
The Afizere people (Other: Afizarek, exonym: Jarawa) are an ethnic group in Nigeria that occupy Jos East, Jos North, parts of Jos South and Mangu Local Government Areas of Plateau State and parts of Toro and Tafawa Balewa Local Government Areas of Bauchi State, Nigeria. The Afizere are speakers of Izere language.[2] The neighbors of the Afizere to the north are the Hausa and Jarawan Dass. To the east and southeast are the Zari, Zaar and Pyem. To the south and southwest are the Berom while the Irigwe and Bache (or Rukuba) lie to the west. Northwest of the Afizere are many ethnic groups, the closest of which are the Anaguta, Bujel, Ribina, Kayauri and Duguza; more distant ones include Buji, Gusu, Sanga, Jere, Amoa, and Lemoro.[3]
- ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (2005). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Vol. V (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 236. ISBN 0195170555.
- ^ "Dialects and Clans - Afizere People". afizereworld.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-25. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
- ^ Ajiji, D. N. (2011). Colonialism and Intergroup Relations in the Central Nigeria Highlands: The Afizere Story. Ibadan, Makurdi, Nigeria: Aboki Publishers. p. 66.