Kuje

Kuje is a settlement of the Gade people in the country south of Zazzau. Gade tradition tells of hunters who came from the direction of Doma and killed a buffalo at the place that became Kuje. The name is said to derive from their word for the animal. The old settlement was surrounded by extensive defensive earthworks, made with iron implements, and its people established a chieftaincy there. Other Gade communities settled at places including Gwargwada, Gaube and Kusaki.