ISLAM IN KINNUPE The story of Islam in KinNupe had been deliberately distorted by Colonial historians to their imperialist advantages. The unfortunate problem here, however, is that post-Independen ce historians of Nigeria have continued to peddle the nonsense the Colonialists have spurned as the history of Islam in KinNupe and in Nigeria in general. Very few, if any at all, researchers and historians have taken the initiative of challenging the conventional story of Islam in ancient KinNupe and ancient Nigeria as concoted by Colonial historians working on the payroll of colonial administrators who, best exemplified by anti-Nupe imperialists like George Taubman Goldie and Frederick Lugard, were out to destroy everything positive about the past of the Nupe Nation. In the following paragraphs and sections we present a less conventional, and more constructive, history of Islam in KinNupe. Among others we discuss, in details, the fact that Islam has been in KinNupe far longer than the ...