The Jju people, or Ba̠jju (exonyms: Hausa: Kajje; Tyap: A̱jhyuo, are an ethnic group found in the Middle Belt (Central) area of Nigeria.
The Ba̠jju, Irigwe, and Afizere tribes collectively called themselves 'Dangi' (meaning 'those of same stock', rendered in the Hausa language) because they share cultural and linguistic similarities.
[citation needed][8] Two brothers named Zampara and Wai were said to have left ‘Dangi’ settlement and migrated South of the Plateau.
Considering that the forefathers of both the Ba̠jju and Chawai (Atsam) people had family ties, it made both of the nations affiliated.
It was because of this close relationship that the Atakat and Ba̠jju people made it a tradition and a religious law never to intermarry.
Tuan – the second son had the following children: Zankirwa, A̠tutyen, Kukwan, Vongkpang, Zat, Furgyam, Sansun, Ka̠mantsok, Dinyring, A̠mankwo, Kpong, Zantun, and Dichu'a̠don.
Kanshuwa – the fourth child had the following children: Jei, Dihwugwai, Zagwom, Ta̠bak, Baihom, Bairuap, and Zambyin.
The previously mentioned Ba̠ranzan (son of Zampara, and brother of A̠kad) left Hurbuang and cleared a place by a riverside called 'Duccuu Chen'.
Although it is unclear from oral history when the migration occurred, but evidence suggests that the Ba̠jju were in their current location since the early 1800s, Gaiya (2013).
[citation needed] There are many rites in Kajju land such as things like rain, farming, harvest, new house, pregnancy, and child-naming.
This practice involved offering an elderly woman poisoned hungry rice (called 'Kasap') to end her suffering of physical infirmity.
[19] Women: Men: Men could swear the following oaths: Women could swear the following oaths: Ba̠jju people like any other tribe in African believe in life after death in the sense that they acknowledge that ancestors performs some function to enable human happiness and prosperity.