Mumuye people

The Mumuyes are a people of Nigeria. They speak the Mumuye language. The Mumuyes constitute the largest tribal group in Taraba State of Nigeria and form the predominant tribes found in Zing, Yorro, Jalingo, Ardo-Kola, Lau, Gassol, Bali and Gashaka, all of which are local government areas of the state. Mumuyes are also widely found in many parts of the neighboring Adamawa State.

The Chiefdom of Kwajji

An introduction

2/29/2016

By Haruna Yakubu Tolenyashong

I Introduction

The chiefdom of Kwajji is a traditional administrative area created in the year 2005 by law of the Taraba state house of assembly along with a number of others in the state.

It forms with its counterpart the Mumuye chiefdom, a political territorial administrative area called Yorro local government council.

As a third class chiefdom, Kwajji is relatively little known both within the state and outside in the wider Nigeria.

Kwajji in the chiefdom sense is a name connoting the amalgamation of several cultural, traditional and administrative areas into one entity. This comprises three distinctive clans of the Mumuye ethnic group namely Kwajji, Manang and Mika. The areas occupied by people of these three clans form the territorial entity of the chiefdom of Kwajji.  In this light, it may be noted that the chiefdom derives its name from that of one of its component clans.

The chiefdom comprises three districts which in turn go by the clan names Kwajji, Manang, and mika that occupy the distinctive areas.  By this development therefore, the name Kwajji may refer to either the district or its mother chiefdom. The persistence of this name Kwajji has its strength from the political evolution of the area that dates back the British colonial times. When they established at the beginning of the 20th century, all forms of administrative contact with this area in reference was centered in Kwajji village. It was from here that governance radiated to the two other clan areas of Manang and Mika. 

II The name

By way of historical analysis, several factors probably came into play for the adaptation and establishment of the name Kwajji.

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