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Guduf and Dghweɗe formed part of Gwoza Central district. The international boundary
shows the two Mafa villages in the southeast of Dghweɗe. Kughum is still part of Nigeria and
belongs here to the Gwoza LGA, while Huduwa is in Cameroon.
Figure 8: Boundaries of Dghweɗe administrative structure of 1994 (extract from figure 3)
Key:
'Gharguze' which became later 'Vaghagaya'
Figure 8 shows again the position of Durghwe as the most important mountain shrine at the
highest elevation, marking the border between Dghweɗe, Gudur and Chikiɗe. We describe the
role of Durghwe from the perspective of the Dghweɗe cosmographic view of the world in
Chapter 3.17.
Goze and Gharguze
Moisel's forementioned listing of 'Hirguse' as a settlement area in the centre of administrative
Korana Basa, which we marked in Figure 8 as Gharguze, then became Vaghagaya. Moisel
does not list Gharaza, Hudimche or Gudule, but lists most other modern wards. We identified
'Hirguse' to be the same as 'Gharguze' through our friends in the hills and Gwoza. 'Goso' is
listed on Moisel's map of 1913, where later Gwoza town developed and where the
descendants of the immigrants from 'Gharguze' were still remembered in 1994 as the firstcomers of Gwoza Wakane. We know that Zimmermann in 1906 refers to 'Goso'. We came
across different spellings of 'Gharguze' and wondered whether to spell it as two separate
words, as in 'Ghar Guze', but chose to write it as one. The word ghar means 'on top' while
'Guze/Goze/Gozo' is a reference to a group that once lived in former Gharguze. We have
chosen the spelling 'Goze', and in combination 'Gharguze' means: 'the Goze people from the
hills' or 'Gwoza on top'.
The 'Goze' were considered by my friends in 1995 to be former settlers of Korana from the
local ward of Hudimche. They particularly referred to Hudimche, Korana Basa, Korana
Kwandama and Gharaza as the former settlement of 'Gharguze'. According to them, the 'Goze
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