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Swem Is A Place. Swem Is A Thing
One of the few things that people who know Tiv history and even those who so claim to know but actually do not know will not argue is that Akighirga (Akiga) Sai was the first Tiv man to know how to write. “Rev. Zimmermann started to teach children how to read and write. Akiga Sai was said to be a […]
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Swem Is A Place And Not A Thing!
It is a Mountain in the Republic of Cameroon and not a pot or calabash or any other fetish object. Any person versed in Tiv history and culture will tell you that. It is Karagbe’s Swem (what is popularly called Swem Karagbe) that is a thing, an object, and fetish. The real Swem which is Divine and of God was displaced […]
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