Akiga, 1898-1959
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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
Akiga, 1898-1959
Other forms of name
Akiga Sai, 1898-1959
Sai, Akiga, 1898-1959
Akiga
Date of birth
1898
Date of death
1959-05
Associated country
Nigeria
Field of activity
Ethnology--Nigeria
Tiv (African people)
Occupation
Authors
Authors, African
Ethnologists
Historians
Legislators
Associated Language
tiv
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- 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)