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THE IDENTITY OF THE ABI PEOPLE – A CLARIFICATION
In conclusion, our Abi communities are Agbo and Bahumono — proud Upper Cross River peoples with a distinct history, language…
BEYOND BORDERS: HOW OKOI, EYONG AND OBONO LINK CAMEROON, CONGO AND CROSS RIVER
African names are deeply ethnic and carry strong connotations. While kinship, family ties or friendship can cause people from different…
UNITY IN DIVERSITY: THE CROSS RIVER BASIN AS A TAPESTRY
When diverse peoples live together, they are faced with a choice. They can live side by side in suspicion, or…
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…
