What is "adamu"

Adamu is a surname. People with this surname include:

• Semira Adamu (born 1978), a Nigerian refugee.
• Abdullahi Adamu (born 1945), a Nigerian politician.
• Baba Adamu (born 1979), a Ghanaian footballer.
• Charles Adamu (born 1977), a Ghanaian boxer.

Adamu may also refer to the forename of:

• Adamu (lived c. 2400 BCE — c. 2300 BCE), an Assyrian king.

Adamu was an early Assyrian king, and listed as the second among the, "seventeen kings who lived in tents" within the Mesopotamian Chronicles. The Mesopotamian Chronicles state that Adamu succeeded Tudiya. The Assyriologist Georges Roux stated that Tudiya would have lived c. 2450 BCE — c. 2400 BCE. The earliest known use of the name “ Adam” as a genuine name in historicity is Adamu. Next to nothing is otherwise known about Adamu's reign.