If they succeed in capturing Jato Acka, the Turan headquarters, then the entire Tiv nation will be at risk. Jato Acka is the ancestral home of the Tiv people, much like Ile-Ife is to the Yoruba.

Turan’s new book, “Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,” tells the story of MGM through the lives and partnership of the two men who ran the studio from its birth in 1924 ...