User:Coffeea22/Tiv people/Bibliography

Drama

The Tiv use a style of performing arts called Kwagh-hir.[1] It's a storytelling method which uses carved masks and puppetry as a form of masquerade. Masquerade is used as a way for individuals of Tiv culture to express themselves. The Tiv use this style as a way to hide their identity and take the role of a spiritual being known as an adzov.[2] The performers hide their identity, only to be revealed by their individual styles and at the end of the performance.[3]

Tiv Plays

The Tiv used their plays as a way to tell traditional legends, recent events, and politics.[4] A few popular plays in Tiv culture include:

  • A Close Shave- Chris Kyoive
  • Sons of Akpe- Boniface Leva


  1. ^ Ikyer, Godwin Aondofa. "Matatu: Journal for African Culture & Society." 2016, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p309-334. 26p
  2. ^ Harding, Frances. “To Present the Self in a Special Way.” African Arts, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter 1998, p. 56. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2307/3337624.
  3. ^ Harding, Frances. “R. C. Abraham and the Tiv People.” African Languages and Cultures. Supplement, no. 1, 1992, pp. 147–161. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/586685. Accessed 13 Oct. 2020.
  4. ^ HARPER PEGGY. (1997). The Kwagh-hir of the People of Tiv: a Note on Dramatised History Telling and Constructions of Nature among the Tiv of Southern Nigeria. Environment and History, 3(3), 371–376.


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