Do You Hear Me? It Is Me, Akiga
Akiga's Storyand Akiga Sai'shistory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2103087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Fardon (SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 572-598 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0001972015000595 |
| OpenAlex | W2175829144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
The publication of a new translation of Akiga Sai'sHistory of the Tivinvites reappraisal of Akiga himself as a local intellectual. This essay presents a biographical account of this early Tiv convert to Christianity, locating his celebratedHistoryin its social, cultural, ethnic and historical contexts, and presents a provisional narrative of his career subsequent to the publication ofAkiga's Story, the version of theHistoryedited by Rupert East. As such, it is intended as an invitation to a full biography. The essay reconstructs, insofar as sources permit, the complex relationship between Akiga, East, the Dutch Reformed Church Mission and the International African Institute that led to the publication ofAkiga's Storyin the form known until now, comparing that version with the complete translation. Akiga'sHistoryemerges from this re-examination as a compellingly contemporary narrative engaged with the lived experience of ethnic identification under colonial rule
Art · Art history · Biography · Christianity · Colonialism · Ethnic group · Intellectual history · Literature · Narrative · Reflexive pronoun · Social history (medicine · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Classics · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
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Naming powers
Canada in Africa
An Unknown Nigerian Export
The Development of the British Colonial Administration Among the Tiv, 1900-1949
Enthnography and Administration
Akiga's Story; The Tiv Tribe as Seen by One of its Members
Ritual and Secular Uses of Vibrating Membranes as Voice-Disguisers
Studies in the History of Central Nigeria Area
The Migration and Expansion of the Tiv
The 'Descent' of the Tiv from Ibenda Hill
Extra-Processual Events in Tiv Political Institutions1
A Tiv Political and Religious Idea
Prologue
Do You Hear Me? It Is Me, Akiga
Diedrich Westermann
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |