{{short description|Ethnic group in Plateau State, Nigeria}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Anaguta | image = | image_caption = Anaguta cultural troupe | total = >10,000 | total_year = 2010 | total_source = SIL | total_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Iguta |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/nar/ |access-date=7 February 2019 |website=Ethnologue}}</ref> | regions = Plateau State (Nigeria) | languages = Iguta | religions = Christianity | related = Afizere, Berom, Irigwe, Buji, Rukuba, Ham, Jukun and other Platoid peoples of the Middle Belt, Tiv, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Efik and other Benue-Congo peoples of southern Nigeria }}
The '''Guta people''', or '''''Anaguta''''', is a minority ethnic group in Plateau State of Nigeria.<ref name="d362">{{cite journal | last=Isichei | first=Elizabeth | title=On Being Invisible: An Historical Perspective of the Anaguta and Their Neighbors | journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies | publisher=Boston University African Studies Center | volume=24 | issue=3 | year=1991 | issn=03617882 | jstor=219091 | pages=513–556 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/219091 | access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> Anaguta means "People of the Bow", the bow and their homes on the hills being the core symbols of their identity.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3C2tzBSAp3MC&pg=PA312|title=A History of African Societies to 1870 |volume= 1|first= Elizabeth |last=Isichei |date= 1997 |page=312| isbn=9780521455992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>
Anaguta ancestral lands are all located on high ground on the Jos plateau.
== Chiefdom == The traditional title of their paramount chief is called UJAH. The current king is Johnson Jauro Magaji II Ujah Anaguta Jos North (Head of Jos north Traditional Council of Chiefs).
The Anaguta chiefdom is made up of five clans: Anabor, Andoho, Anagohom, andugom, and Andirgiza.
==Notable people== *Emmanuel Maviram, Nigerian footballer.
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==Further reading== *''[https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/88592 A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Iguta (nar) Language of Plateau State, Nigeria]''
Category:Ethnic groups in Nigeria {{nigeria-stub}}