08/02/2025
Kadara / Adara / Ajure / Ada / Azuwa / Ajuwa / Azuwa
The Kadara (also Ajuah (Ajure), Adaa and Adara) people make up one of the largest ethnic groups in southern Kaduna, an area south of the present state of Kaduna in Nigeria. Other names are the Azuwa, Ajuwa and Azuwa.
Kadara people speak the Adara language, a north Plateau language of Nigeria.
Location
Adara people can be found in the sub-saharan African Countries and they are only found in Nigeria. They can be found in Benue and some parts of Kaduna state like Kajuru and Kachia local government areas. Communities along the area include Magunguna, Idazo, Ungwan Galadima, Ungwan Guza, Etissi, Ungwan Ma’aji, Ungwan Dantata, Ungwan Araha 1 & 2, Ungwan Goshi, Ungwan Shaban, Ungwan Jibo, Ungwan Maijama’a, Ungwan Sako, Ungwan Maidoki and Ungwan Masaba.
Kadara People
Demographics
Kadara land covers an extensive area of about 8,090 square kilometers. There is an estimated population of about 3.9 million
people according to the 1973 census (National archives, Kaduna 1977).
Because of the teeming population of this ethnic group, the Kaduna state government recently created two new chiefdoms in Kadara land with Kachia and Kajuru as their headquarters.
Religion
The Kadara people believed in the existence of a supreme being, creator of the universe. He could be reached through much lesser
spirits found in the ancestral world, spirits of certain animals, stones and a host of impersonal forces. Also living among the Kadara are adherents to both Christianity and Islam.
About 55% of the Adara are Christians while some also adhere to Islam.
Culture and Life
The Kadara people are an ethnic group that enjoys living together in small villages as their settlements, with the organization of administration based on the village settling.
They are great farmers and hunters. Among the common and most stable food crops grown are Guinea corn, millet, maize,
rice, cotton, groundnuts, to***co, sugar cane, ginger, yams, beans and
