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Shared Motifs, Shared Blood, Shared Borders: The Bamileke-Akpa Connection and the Identity Crisis of 4 Million Nigerians in Cameroon
Ultimately, the history of a people can be traced from a variety of sources, including motifs, language, artworks, archaeological excavations,…
MMA ESEKPA, YOSE AND JANENBOKU: RETHINKING MATRIARCHY AND MATRILINEALITY IN UGEP CULTURE, YAKURR, CROSS RIVER STATE
The evidence suggests that describing Ugep as a matriarchal culture in the strict political sense is anthropologically implausible. What exists…
No People is Pure: Migration, the Slave Trade, and the Peopling of the Niger Delta
Conclusion: What Dike’s account makes clear is that the Niger Delta, like much of Nigeria and Africa, is not the…
Joseph Greenberg and the Fourfold Classification of African Languages: Dismantling the Hamitic Myth American linguist Joseph
In essence, Greenberg's classification did more than organize languages; it restored intellectual agency to Africa. By proving that the vast…
The Fallacy of “Semi-Bantu”: An Obsolete Concept in the Light of Modern Anthropology and the Bantu Homeland
To continue describing any group as Semi-Bantu is to perpetuate a colonial typological error. The term has no linguistic validity,…
REDISCOVERING OURSELVES: LANGUAGE EXTINCTION, CULTURAL AMNESIA AND THE URGENT NEED TO RECLAIM OUR HERITAGE IN CROSS RIVER STATE
We are indeed getting closer to the re-discovery of ourselves. Our monoliths, our Nsibidi, our history of Princess Ibum and…
Language Shift in Cross River State: The Fate of Kiong among the Korup and Lubila among the Ojor People
A language is said to be endangered when it is no longer being transmitted to children and the number of…
FROM THE CROSS RIVER TO THE CARIBBEAN: THE ATAM IDENTITY AND THE AGWAGWUNE ECHO IN JAMAICA Rejoinder: Who Owns the Alok Ikom Monoliths?
The Alok Ikom Monoliths are not migrant art. They are in situ ancestral archives of the Ejagham-Bakor people who still…
The Fallacy of the Hamitic Theory and the Phenotypic Diversity of Africa
In sum, the Hamitic theory was not science but a colonial invention designed to deny Africa its own history and…
CULTURAL DYNAMISM AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF A UNIFIED NEW YAM FESTIVAL IN YAKURR: COSMOLOGY, AUTONOMY AND TRADITION
While the idea of a centralized New Yam Festival in Yakurr may appeal to modern sensibilities or administrative convenience, it…
From Tribe to Ethnic Nationality: The Yakurr Experience (1935–2026)
Statistically and demographically, a community that had a population of 26,000 in 1935 — and has since expanded into hundreds…
The Broom as a Symbol of Authority and Unity in Ugep Culture
Ugep is not only a growing urban center but also a cultural hub whose traditions continue to command respect. The…
