ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the formalized educational institutions, of which there are two in Nupe: the institution of the Koran school, concerned with Mohammedan religious teaching, and the institution of age-grade associations. The two educational institutions supplement each other in many respects and that, between them, they take in the whole field of 'education for citizenship'. The Mallam schools both in Bida and in the peasant districts are steadily increasing. Certain progressive Bida Mallams include the teaching of Hausa and elementary arithmetic in their syllabus, and many adults, traders and other native business men, attend their classes to acquire knowledge so invaluable to their trade. Bida age-grade associations of talaka and saraki alike adopt the highest ranks both of traditional and British society. Bida learning has a great reputation even outside Nupe; Mallams from Bida have been given important posts in other countries, and several Bida Koran teachers have established flourishing schools in Ilorin.
