1931 Public Employees Jrnl. Sept. 1 (in figure) N.U.P.E...National Union of Public Employees.

1932 Public Employees Jrnl. Mar. 21/1 (heading) Why N.U.P.E. is winning its way every day.

1955 W. W. Craik Bryn Robert & National Union Public Employees iii. 45 The history of NUPE from its earliest years is the history of a trade union confining its membership and its service to public employees.

1985 Financial Times 12 Oct. 6/2 An item in his curriculum vitae states baldly: ‘Organiser in all Nupe strikes from 1978’.

1829 H. Clapperton Jrnl. 2nd Exped. Interior Afr. i. 25 He hoped that we should settle the war with the Nyffee people and the Fellatah.

1888 G. T. Bettany World's Inhabitants vi. 614 Gando..includes the territory of the Nupe negroes.

1903 Man 3 151 The grass hat made in the Nupé and lower Benué provinces, whilst a good type of weaving, is notable for the fact that no attempt is ever made to fit the hat to the forehead.

1920 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 50 401 At Soso, the inhabitants of which were originally fugitives from Nupe raiders, the body is washed on the second day.

1974 Afr. Encycl. 375/2 The Nupe people live in valleys of the middle Niger and Kaduna rivers in Nigeria... They are famous for their work in glass, silver, bronze, and brass.

1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. xxviii. 514 The Nupe forces, Fulani cavalry armed with firelocks, swords and spears, were expected to outnumber them by at least ten to one.

1841 J. F. Schön Jrnl. 14 Sept. (1842) 119 The Nufi Language is spoken to a considerable distance, even beyond Rabba.

1885 Standard Nat. Hist. VI. 320 We meet the Ibo language on the lower course of the Niger, and the Nupe from the Benne up.

1970 Stud. Afr. Linguistics 1 100 (heading) Nupe tonology.

1993 Fiddlehead (Nexis) Sept. 177 Everyone began fingering the cloths and discussing them in their Nupe language.

1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 250/1 Animal names of Costa Rica... Leopard or tiger... Nupe (Afr.), nampa.

1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 228 At Lokója, at the confluence, Nupé is the principal language, though others are spoken.

1942 S. F. Nadel Black Byzantium vi. 70 The people in the capital regard the Nupe spoken in the districts and on the borders of the country as an inferior brand.

1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World iii. 350 Other important languages [in Nigeria] are..Urhobo..in Mid-Western state south of Benin City; Nupe..near the junction of the Niger and Kaduna rivers; and Idoma..in Benue-Plateau state.

1984 Word 35 248 Apart from organizing a few workshops aimed at providing standard orthographies for some minor languages such as Urhobo, Nupe, Idoma and Igala, no significant work has yet been done.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 465/1 The river people, Kyedye, with colonies as far south as Onitsha, speak Nupe.

1885 Standard Nat. Hist. VI. 321 The Nupe..are genuine negroes in complexion and form of face, and indisputably one of the best-formed tribes in Africa.

1892 A. F. Mockler-Ferryman Up Niger xiii. 151 The Mohammedan Nupe lives the life of a man-about-town.

1932 J. Cary Aissa Saved iv. 24 The new town on the waterside, inhabited by Hausas, Nupes, Yorubas, the mixed population of a harbour.

1942 S. F. Nadel Black Byzantium iii. 27 The Nupe have only one work for kinship, dengi, which defines relationship in the widest as well as in a more restricted sense.

1966 Amer. Hist. Rev. 71 1034 The Landers describe vividly the peoples they encountered: kings and peasants,..the energetic Nupe, [etc.].

1985 O. Imasogie Afr. Trad. Relig. (ed. 2) ii. 23 Leaving the Ibos of the Eastern Nigeria and the Nupes of the north for the Edos of the Southwest, one is confronted with the same finding concerning the concept of the supreme God.