Tag: Nicholas Said
Nicholas Said: Stolen from Borno, lost in America
In Haywood County, Tennessee, Nicholas Said mysteriously vanished from public view. Some believe he died in 1882, but no official…
Nicholas Said’s Encounters with American Racism
He suppressed his disenchantment with religion and, in March 1861, applied to the African Civilization Society, which was looking for…
Borno man who fought in America’s Civil War in the 1860s
Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a…