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THE MYTH OF IGBO COMMUNITIES IN CROSS RIVER STATE – A REBUTTAL OF EXPANSIONIST HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE TRUE ETHNOGRAPHY OF ABI, ISOBO AND UKELLE-EFFIUM
All these forceful claims by some groups in Nigeria to subsume other distinct peoples into their own agenda or construct…
IKA IS NOT DELTA IGBO: My Reflections on Agbor and Its Unique People
The Ika people are simply a reflection and embodiment of the mosaic complexity of Nigeria, where sometimes cultures or people…
IKWERRE IDENTITY AND THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION: BEYOND LANGUAGE AND COLONIAL LABEL
The labels — Eboe, Lower Ibo, Upper Ibo, and even Bight of Biafra — were external conveniences created by traders…
Leboku – The Sophistication of Our Progenitors on Display
by Okoi Obono-Obla Leboku is dance, celebration, thanksgiving and drama all rolled into one. Kudos to the sophistication and ingenuity…
YAKURR UNITY IN DIVERSITY: Onun Ekor, Blood Brotherhood, and the Historical Bridge Between the Lower and Middle Cross River
This is the cordiality and brotherhood which we must now resurrect, re-enact, and recalibrate in modern times for our betterment…
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…
