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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Akiga visited the mountain with Mr La Grange and Mr Brinks. Karagbe is a Nongov man [19] who brought a pot with shrubs to the Tiv people during the reign of the second Tor Tiv, Zaki Gondo Aluor and called it swem. [20] Thus the origin of swem karagbe which is used by less than 1percent of tiv people. [21]
This has been recorded as the bloodiest coup in Nigerian history. [63] Paul Unongo was arrested with the Tiv historian, Tesemchi Makar and other Tiv people. The basis for these arrests was suspicion of conspiracy to overthrow the government as they together with Gideon Orkar were Tiv people. They were arrested in Benue and taken to Lagos ...
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.
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 ...
Tarka was born on 10 July 1932 in Igbor, Benue State to the family of Tarka Nachi and Ikpa Anyam. His father was a village teacher of Tiv origin [2] who later became a headmaster and then chief in Mbakor, Gboko area.