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Charles Kingsley Meek FRGS FRAI, often noted as C. K. Meek (24 June 1885 – 27 March 1965), was a British anthropologist. He wrote about the northern tribes of Nigeria and studied the Jukun people. Meek took photographs during some of his field work.
Meek studied theology at Oxford. In 1912 he joined the colonial service and was posted in northern Nigeria in 1912. He was made Government Anthropologist under governor-general Frederick Lugard who sought to extend his policy of indirect rule south and wanted to know more about local practice.Meek attained the rank of Resident and transferred to the southern provinces of Nigeria in 1929 before resigning due to health issues in 1933.
In 1925 he published The Northern Tries of Nigeria and in 1931 A Sudanese Kingdom about divine kingship among the Jukun-speaking peoples. He did scholarly research with R. R. Marett and C. G. Seligman. He was a fellow in the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Anthropological Institute which awarded him its Wellcome Medal.