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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]
In 1944, the governor of Nigeria, Sir Arthur Richard formally allowed the Tiv people to select a king. [11] Chief Jato Aka of Turan and Ikyaagba Akpeye of Kunav were some of the first to receive the news and because of the respect accorded to them by the colonizers, they were almost the most suitable candidates except for the fact that they ...
The Tiv World War II veterans felt the British treated their own kin with injustice through the indirect rule system of governance. The Tiv were divided into 3 factions and kept under the rulership of the Jukun minority at the North-East , Cross river at the South-south and Lafia division at the North-West .
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.
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 ...
The Jukun-Tiv crisis in Taraba was claiming a lot of lives and then internal boundary crises within Benue were inflicting harm upon fellow Tiv people. He emphasized the need for peace and unity among the Tiv people, and threatened to depose any district or clan head found to be instigating any crisis.