Toure Kazah-Toure

Kazah-Toure, born in 1959 in Atyapland, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now part of southern Kaduna State, Nigeria), was the son of Kazah Yashim, the second Atyap formally-trained teacher and first person from Southern Zaria (now Southern Kaduna) to be appointed at the District Council (of the defunct Northern Region) in 1954.

He came from a mixed Christian and Muslim family, with his dad being a Christian and a few other family members being Muslims, 12 of whom were killed in the 1992 Zangon Kataf crises, the aftermath of which he, himself, became a Muslim.

He lectured with the History department of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

He "" ...produced the best documentation of the nationalist struggle in Zangon Kataf even as he noted the many contradictions he embodied.""

- Dr. Zuwaqhu Bonat

Toure regarded the ideas of Nationalism and Christianity as the sell out of the Nigerian elite to imperialism, as he moved to Pan-Africanism from Nationalism, and got immersed in the epistemic community called the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

He, from early times was involved in organising people in his native area to support the radical ferments and gained the nickname "PRP", and did thought strategically and planned for the platform managing the Students' Union of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, the Movement for Progressive Nigeria (MPN), while still a student there.

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Toure Kazah-Toure (1959 - 1 July 2017) was a Nigerian academic, activist, and pan-Africanist.

His admiration for founding Guinean president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, led to his adoption of the name "Toure".

He was a history lecturer and researcher at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Nigeria, with a number of publications in his name.

He died of a long ailment at 1:30 PM on 1 July 2017, at the age of 58.