Akiga, 1898-1959
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- Akiga. History of the Tiv, 2016:p. 2 of cover (Akiga Sai; first Tiv man to declare himself a Christian in 1912; first Tiv to read and write; first Tiv to write a book) p. vii (Akiga; his History of the Tiv provided the first detailed and comprehensive account of Tiv history, philosophy, religion, language, ecology, cultural traditions, and grammar of values)
- Dictionary of African biography, 2012:p. 246 (Sai, Akiga; 1898-1959; historian and writer during Nigeria's colonial period; editor of monthly Tiv newspaper Mwanger u Tiv; elected in 1951 to Northern Nigeria House of Assembly where he represented Benue Province for five years; collected oral histories from Tiv people in northern Nigeria for twenty years)
- Fardon, R. "'Do you hear me? It is me, Akiga: Akiga's story and Akiga Sai's History." Africa, 85(4), 2015:page 572 (Akiga Sai, Akiga, died in May 1959)
- Akiga. Akiga's story, 2003:t.p. (Akiga.)
- LC database, Feb 28, 2006:(hdg.: Akiga)
Wikipedia description:
Akiga Sai (1898–1959) was an early Nigerian autobiographer and historian, known for his History of the Tiv. Sai's Tiv language manuscript was edited and translated into English by Rupert East, and first published in 1939. In 2015 a full edition was published and several other articles published about Sai (by Fardon, Pine and Martin Luter Akiga among others). Fardon (2015: 572), citing the Tiv historian Atah Pine accords Akiga Sai the following Tiv "firsts": "the first Tiv man to be baptized as a Christian, the first Tiv man to read and write, the first Tiv man to write a letter, first Tiv parliamentarian, first Tiv newspaper editor, and first Tiv man to write a book." In Sklar's book on Nigerian political parties, Sai is listed on as a Benue state member of the National People's Congress for 1958.
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