Ibrahim Tahir (died December 9, 2009) was a Nigerian sociologist, writer, and politician during the Second Republic and a prominent member of the Kaduna Mafia.
[1] Tahir was born in Tafawa Balewa, and received his early education at Kobi Primary School.
He then proceeded to King's College, Cambridge on a regional government scholarship where he earned a bachelor's and doctorate degree in social anthropology.
At the university, he was considered a foremost conservative who frequently clashed with progressives Bala Usman and Patrick Wilmot.
[5] In this he shared confidence with a group of Northerners known as the Kaduna Mafia, who were intellectuals, civil servants and military officers.