Koro

Village of northern Nigeria, which finds its origin in the Jukun of northern Benué. Established in Nasarawa State, near Abuja, where the Hausa chief of Zaria took refuge, an area that remained outside the reformist movement of Usman dan Fodio, Koro they could keep their traditions. Koro, coming from the east, and the Gwari, coming from the west, are neighbors form separate groups, the latter being under the protection of the former. Some Koro leaders of the Ganagana group have been given titles in the court of the Amir of Abuja. The koro women and children of the Huntu group are simply dressed in leaves. His tombs, Pierre Vermel tells us, are shaped like a vertical well of meter and a half long depth in a horizontal pit of two meters in length. They practiced animistic cults, mainly the cult of ancestors. It is known mainly for its so-called anthropomorphic “cups”. These are statues with a large ventral cavity in the form of eight, intended to drink in them and to make libations with palm wine during ritual sacrifices or funeral ceremonies, especially at the second funerals, in addition to being used in divinatory rites and placed in the domestic altars. They also make pottery, plastered and painted pots.