Bicizà Explained

Official Name:Bicizà
Other Name:Mc Alley
Native Name:Bicizà
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Nigeria
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Nigeria
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Plateau State
Subdivision Type2:LGA
Subdivision Name2:Bassa
Subdivision Type3:Chiefdom
Subdivision Name3:Pengana
Leader Title:Ogomo
Population As Of:2006 Census
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:WAT
Utc Offset:+01:00
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Aw

Bicizà (Bichiza) which is today called Mc Alley or in some instances, Mista Ali is a small town in Buji district of Plateau state, Nigeria, that has boundaries with Jos North Local Government Area.It is the gateway to the State when coming from Zaria, Kaduna State and Kano State as well, in central Nigeria. Biciza (Bichiza) Means place of wasteland. It is a village to the Boze or Buji people, a dialect cluster of Kainji languages in Nigeria. Neighboring towns and villages close to Bicizà include Icizà, Zùku, Owoyoyo, Tipo, Bìdiri, Urakun, Bihol, Màlèempe, Gɔ̀rɔɔŋ, Rɛ̀woo, all in Buji district.The language of the people also forms part of the ‘Jere cluster’ and is in turn, part of the Northern Jos group of the East Kainji languages Jos[1] spoken north of Jos town in Central Nigeria.

Notes and References

  1. Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press.