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The Tiv believe they moved into their present location from the southeast of Africa. It is claimed [6] that the Tiv left their Bantu kin and wandered through southern, south-central and west-central Africa before returning to the savannah lands of West African Sudan via the River Congo and Cameroon Mountains and settled at Swem, the region adjoining Cameroon and Nigeria at the beginning of ...
When they got back to Nigeria, The Tiv world war 2 veterans felt the British treated their own kin the Tiv people with injustice with their indirect rule strategy of governance. The Tiv people were divided into 3 factions and kept under the rulership of the Jukun minority at the North-East , Cross River state at the South-south and Lafia ...
The Tiv people were traditionally monotheists, and local accounts state that the Tiv come from an individual called Takuluku. Their origin story is a bit similar to that of other Bantu groups; [2] the Zulu, for example, refer to this original individual as Unkulunkulu. [3] Takuluku was created by a God called Aondo.
Paul Iyorpuu Unongo (September 26, 1935 – November 29, 2022), [1] commonly known as Wantaregh Paul Unongo among his kinsmen, the Tiv people, was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, statesman, teacher, and philanthropist. He founded the Community of Tiv Students and is regarded as one of the fathers of modern Tiv politics. [2]
Doki and some other war veterans were conscripted into the Nigerian army in 1965. He was still in the army during the Nigerian Civil War in 1967. He fought on the Nigerian side with Lieutenant Colonel Akaahan Joseph Agbo. [8] In 1972, two years after the Nigerian civil war ended, he retired as a second lieutenant to his home town at Mbaduku.
Orchivirigh Dr. Alfred Akawe Torkula was born in Tse-Torkula, Mbadwem District, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. He commenced his education at the Tiv N. A. Elementary School, Gboko, from 1953 to 1958, followed by St. Theresa’s Catholic Primary School, Naka, in 1959.
Akiga Sai (1898–1959) was an early Nigerian autobiographer and historian, known for his History of the Tiv. [1]Sai's Tiv language manuscript was edited and translated into English by Rupert East, and first published in 1939.
The Tor Tiv is the head of Ijirtamen also known as the Tiv Traditional Council (TTC), the highest policy-making body in charge of the Tiv people. It comprises all the chiefs in Tiv land. The council sits at least once in a year. [2] The Tor Tiv, according to Tiv tradition, arbitrates disputes among Tiv people without impartiality, irrespective ...