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the Guduf saddle to the Zelidva spur.3 The other is from Gvoko down to the western foothills
to Uvagha, then from Gwoza of today across the Guduf saddle and into the eastern plain. This
is the way the Glavda allegedly moved, who then even began to occupy the northern part of
the Moskota massif, from where they were pushed out and back again into the eastern plain
by the arriving Mafa, eventually forming the most recent ethnic group there.
Figure 10 shows how the Glavda tradition separates from the Tur tradition as the main
migratory highway into the Gwoza hills described above. We also see how the Wula-Sakon
tradition overlaps with the Tur tradition in the south, which indicates that the two crossed
route at this point, with the Wula-Sakon tradition going across and around the southern part of
the Ziver-Oupay massif, to go north again along its eastern slopes into the DGB area. I have
studied the migratory traditions of the DGB area in great detail (Muller-Kosack 2003, 2008,
2010) and we know that the Wula-Sakon were eventually pushed northwards by the incoming
Mafa.
Figure 10 : Migratory traditions of the wider subregional context
The Mafa
are
an
ethnic
melting
pot
of
many
different
traditions
of ethnic
origin and
we have
only
marked
the Gozla
as one of
them due
to the fact
that they
are
the
most
important
rainmaker
clan in the
DGB area.
We
can
see
that
they are of
Muktele
origin
(Figure 4)
and can be
found as
far
as
Huduwe, to the immediate south of Dghweɗe (Figure 8). We will discuss this further in the
chapter about the bull festival and how there they refer to themselves as ‘Gaske rainmaker’.
3
Tijani (2010:23), in his PhD thesis about the Gamergu (Malgwa), mentions the colonial report of
Harford (1927:21), who claims that the Gamergu came originally from 'Zaladiva Peak' [Zeliva spur].
We do not discuss this further here, but it is an interesting statement considering the close link of the
Gamergu with the Wandala of Kirawa and the Montagard inclusion of the latter into the Tur tradition.
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