21/08/2025
According to the 2005 census results in Cameroon,[46] there were 87,252 [47] Tivoid people at Akwaya sub-division, located at the south-western border of Cameroon Manyu division, with Mamfe as its capital, which is 74 km away from the south eastern Nigerian border. The Cameronian Tiv are well educated and live in Anglophone Cameroon as their ancestral land, while a few others live in the francophone region. They are mostly farmers but others work in the government. Some of their towns and villages are Njawbaw(Njobo), Assumbo, Ballin, Batanga, Bagundu, Bakinjaw, Assaka etc.[40]
The Ikyurav-tiev of Katsina-Ala were some of the last Nigerian Tiv people to migrate from here. They are still known in Cameroon as the Ekol.[48]
Although some Nigerian Tiv people are unaware of some of the Tiv groups of the Cameroon because of the international border but, these groups always consider themselves Tiv because they are basically the same people lost in undocumented history. Some of them have an additional dialect to the main Tiv language. They also constitute some of the major Tiv clans in Nigeria like the Iyon(Kwande), Utange(Ushongo) etc.[45]
The Cameroonian Tiv groups are; Bitare, Mesaka, Iyive, Ceve or Becheve, Evant, Eman, Ipulo, Caka, Undir, Oliti etc. They together with the Tiv in Nigeria share the same culture, language, History, Religion, and Tradition. They occupy a total of 99 villages in the Akwaya sub-division covering an area of 3,682 square kilometers, which is their major homogenous population.[7]