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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 ...
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]
This led to conflicts and riots and the pressure was on the governor of Nigeria, Sir Arthur Richards who permitted the Tiv people to chose their own king. [7] There was a lot of politicking among the local chiefs and influential tiv sons of the time but in September 1946, the groups resolved to two contestants. [8]
Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.
The Tiv resented the Hausa control of the courts, political power and landed property...scarcely could the Tiv secure plots of land or find accommodation in Makurdi when they were in transit [11] Doki and some of the World War II veterans like Aemberga Samu, Tsenzughul Tyungu, Ishi Wayo, Gbir Agera started the agitation from Comilla, Bangladesh ...
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 ...
Kwagh-hir aesthetics are drawn from the patterns of the Tiv culture and depicts the Tiv understanding of their life. This is projected by the use of varied design concepts that are sewn into various styles so as to connote societal activities. The masks are elaborate and reflect the versatile aesthetic background of the Tiv people.
For example, the Tiv people, at the time the fourth largest ethnic group in the country, had always been extremely decentralized and therefore had no paramount ruler. The British created the office of Tor Tiv in 1947, appointing Makere Dzakpe as the first holder of this title, in order to have a "traditional ruler" to speak for the Tiv people. [10]