Highlands of tin, apples, and many tongues
Plateau State was created on 3 February 1976 from Benue-Plateau, with Jos as capital. The Jos Plateau is a highland of cooler air, volcanic rocks, and a mosaic of peoples — Berom, Afizere, Anaguta, Tarok, Goemai, Mwaghavul, Hausa, Fulani, and many more. Tin mining in the colonial twentieth century remade Jos into a cosmopolitan camp-city; the mines are mostly memory, the hills remain.
Nasarawa was carved away in 1996. The slogan Home of Peace and Tourism names an aspiration that communal crises have sometimes broken; an honest account holds the scenery and the wounds together. Shere Hills, Riyom Rocks, the National Museum Jos (with Nok terracottas in its published collections), and the Jos Wildlife Park are the visitor map. Kurama, mining ponds, and apple-and-vegetable farms add a temperate-crop novelty in tropical Nigeria.
Heritage is geological and plural. No single emirate owns the plateau, though palaces and chiefs abound. Tourism here is weather, rock, and museum — not invented documentary photographs of 'lost white civilisations.' The terracottas are African, the tin was industrial, the peace is work.
Nasarawa was carved away in 1996. The slogan Home of Peace and Tourism names an aspiration that communal crises have sometimes broken; an honest account holds the scenery and the wounds together. Shere Hills, Riyom Rocks, the National Museum Jos (with Nok terracottas in its published collections), and the Jos Wildlife Park are the visitor map. Kurama, mining ponds, and apple-and-vegetable farms add a temperate-crop novelty in tropical Nigeria.
Heritage is geological and plural. No single emirate owns the plateau, though palaces and chiefs abound. Tourism here is weather, rock, and museum — not invented documentary photographs of 'lost white civilisations.' The terracottas are African, the tin was industrial, the peace is work.