OILING THE WHEELS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN EASTERN NIGERIA
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The Migration and Expansion of the Tiv
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Opening Paragraph One of the most obvious social situations in the middle Benue Valley is the expansion in all directions of the Tiv, who number some 800,000 and are the largest pagan tribe in Northern Nigeria. One of the most puzzling aspects of Tiv expansion has been that, alth…
Ikeŋga: the Ibo Ram‐headed God
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SYNOPSIS Among the Ibo of Southern Nigeria is a cult object known as Ikeŋga. It is associated with good fortune, success, ability and the strength of the right arm. It is represented by a carved wooden figure of a man with rams horns on his head and a machet in one hand and a hum…
African Political Systems: Indirect Rule and Democratic Processes
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DEMOCRACY, in the Western sense of government by a central legislative body nominated by the people, is, with the exception of Liberia, a recent development in West Africa. To date, the European colonies that have made the greatest strides in this direction have been the Gold Coa…
Federation for Nigeria
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The Nigeria Handbook
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Journal Article The Nigeria Handbook Get access The Nigeria Handbook. London: Crown Agents. 1954. Illustrated. Maps. 7 Appendices. 15s. Od. C. O. D. EKWENSI C. O. D. EKWENSI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 53, Issue…
The ‘Descent’ of the Tiv from Ibenda Hill
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Opening Paragraph The Tiv, a semi-Bantu people numbering some 800,000 who live in the middle Benue Valley of Northern Nigeria, have not, according to their tradition, always lived in their present location. They account for their entrance into the territory they now occupy and th…
Book Review
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Insult as an Offence in African Customary Law
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The writer, who is Simon Research Fellow in Manchester University, is author of Nigerian Land Law and Custom, and has recently paid a visit to Uganda.
Report by the resumed Conference on the Nigerian Constitution held in Lagos in January and February, 1954
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The Batwa: Who are They?
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Opening Paragraph There are no such people, any more than there were such people as the Philistines. In ‘L'origine du nom Fulani’, I showed that the words ‘Philistine’ and ‘Fulani’ come from a common root F-L which in the Indo-European languages means ‘foreigner, stranger, alien’…
La Nigeria
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Book Reviews
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Book reviewed in this article: Ethnology and Ethnography: The Southern Lunda and Related Peoples (Northern Rhodesia, Angola, Belgian Congo). Merran McCulloch. Bemba and Related Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. Wilfred Whitely The Coastal Tribes of the North‐Eastern Bantu (Pokomo, Ny…
Comparative Notes on Yoruba and Lucumí
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Lucumí is a term here used to refer to a language spoken in Cuba by practitioners of the religion known as Santería. In Cuba both the santeros and the language are often called Lucumí, a form of which the origin has been discussed by William Bascom. Bascom seems to have been the…
The Pilgrimage and Death of Sākūra, King of Mali
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It is recorded in a number of standard works on the western Sudan and northern Nigeria that about the year A.D. 1300 Sākūra, the usurping King of Mali, performed the pilgrimage to Mecca and was murdered by the Danakil on the return journey. Delafosse writes: ‘C'est en revenant de…
Concepts of Time among the Tiv of Nigeria
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The Integration of the new Economic Classes into Local Government in Western Nigeria
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The writer is attached to the West African Institute of Social and Economic Research. For 2½ years, he has been making a first-hand study of the traditional Yoruba system of government.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE COUNTY OF EKET, EASTERN REGION, NIGERIA
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The Nature and Structure of the Commonwealth
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The structure of the British Commonwealth of Nations is peculiar. If it did not exist, you could not invent it. Its peculiarities reveal themselves at once if we try to find an answer to what looks like a fairly simple question, namely: How do we know whether a country is inside…
Nigeria. Standing orders of the House of Representatives. (Lagos: Government Printer. 1952. Pp. 40.)
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