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DeepZone
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These confraternities are popular among the ibos , ijaws, ibibioa and Efiks. i believe they are responsible for most ritual related kidnappings in iboland and are very very dangerous blood suckers.
My question is: why do we still keep an underlying culture like that in Africa? Is it something to write home about? Secret cults like this should be banished like the govt did to the university ones. What do y'all think?
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ifyalways (f)
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These confraternities are popular among the ibos , ijaws, ibibioa and Efiks. i believe they are responsible for most ritual related kidnappings in iboland and are very very dangerous blood suckers.
My question is: why do we still keep an underlying culture like that in Africa? Is it something to write home about? Secret cults like this should be banished like the govt did to the university ones. What do y'all think?
what a shallow and unfounded belief ! Such silly beliefs are better kept to oneself. Otondo  |
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DeepZone
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Are you or any of your family member in that secret blood sucking cult? How do you know for sure they do not do all those stuff listed above?
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ifyalways (f)
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If you want to know about something you have little or no knowledge about,do so politely and not jump out from the moons to spit rubbish.good day !
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DeepZone
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If you want to know about something you have little or no knowledge about,do so politely and not jump out from the moons to spit rubbish.good day ! Tell me about Ekpe confraternity, am all ears. Also let me into the ibo peoples new yam festival cult. |
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Outstrip (f)
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ifyalways where are you now and deepzone why don't you defend what you have written. People are waiting
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Aloy.Emeka
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Tell me about Ekpe confraternity, am all ears. Also let me into the ibo peoples new yam festival cult. Do you know the meaning of a cult or confraternity? Ekpe is a masqurade confraternity among ibibios and not even igbos. okonko is the same I think and I think those things are defunct in this christian era. there is nothing in igboland called new yam festival cult. new yam festival is not even a pagan festival. It's as plain as the name suggests. Whomever is telling you any different needs to have his head checked. |
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Outstrip (f)
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Oga that is not true. Ekpe is alive in igbo land
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Aloy.Emeka
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Oga that is not true. Ekpe is alive in igbo land madam you are wrong. Ekpe is a calabar culture. You may be talking of okonko. |
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plus_Queen
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Aloy,some parts of Igbo land have Ekpe
I am 100% sure
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Outstrip (f)
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No Emeka I am sure that Ekpe is in igbo land. In arondizogu to be precise which is pretty much the igbo heartland. I have never even heard of Okonko
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Aloy.Emeka
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Aloy,some parts of Igbo land have Ekpe
I am 100% sure My bad. Which part? I've always known Ekpe to be an ibibio thing but Okonko am very sure of. There are some igbos that live in the riverine area that have similar cultures with ibibios. same goes for those in ebonyi state that have a similar ogoja culture. But ekpe must have been an adopted culture. |
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plus_Queen
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These confraternities are popular among the ibos , ijaws, ibibioa and Efiks. i believe they are responsible for most ritual related kidnappings in iboland and are very very dangerous blood suckers.
My question is: why do we still keep an underlying culture like that in Africa? Is it something to write home about? Secret cults like this should be banished like the govt did to the university ones. What do y'all think?
he he he. You don't want to go there. do you know what location the ritualists travel to in order to obtain their "powers"  My sister from what I heard, It's none of the locations you mentioned The same area of Nigeria has even exported rituals and juju to other parts of the world. guess who they are? |
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Aloy.Emeka
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No Emeka I am sure that Ekpe is in igbo land. In arondizogu to be precise which is pretty much the igbo heartland. I have never even heard of Okonko I bu ada mazi? ekpe is no way in arondizuogu because that is where I come from. May be aro chukwu , the home land of the whole Aro people and it's possible because of it's proximity to the ibibios. Get your facts right because abu m ama ala, |
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plus_Queen
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My bad. Which part? I've always known Ekpe to be an ibibio thing but Okonko am very sure of. There are some igbos that live in the riverine area that have similar cultures with ibibios. same goes for those in ebonyi state that have a similar ogoja culture. But ekpe must have been an adopted culture.
Ikwuano areas of Abia state. They border cross river/Akwaibom that may explain the similarity in culture |
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Aloy.Emeka
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Ikwuano areas of Abia state.
They border cross river/Akwaibom that may explain the similarity in culture You see what I mean. That's why about 95% of igbos do not know what is ekpe. It's people like me that wangle and meager with women that knows the nitty gritty of these cultures. |
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plus_Queen
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arochukwu also
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Aloy.Emeka
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arochukwu also You see. Those areas have similar culture with akwa ibom and ibibios. |
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plus_Queen
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As a Christian of course I hate all these cultural things because they all believe in sacrificing chickens and goats to some god.
It's nothing like what people like deepzone would want you to believe.
I know people from those areas and during Ekpe festivals all they do is invite frends and cook and eat rice then go to the village square and watch the Ekpe kill a goat.
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plus_Queen
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You see. Those areas have similar culture with akwa ibom and ibibios.
I also hear some areas of Ngwa have it also and like you said all these areas have a common boundary with our Ibibio neighbours |
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Aloy.Emeka
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As a Christian of course I hate all these cultural things because they all believe in sacrificing chickens and goats to some god.
It's nothing like what people like deepzone would want you to believe.
I know people from those areas and during Ekpe festivals all they do is invite frends and cook and eat rice then go to the village square and watch the Ekpe kill a goat. They are mere masqurade societies for men and christians do not partake in them because it was a pagan culture. It's not a diabolic entity or supreme cult like Ogboni fraternity which Deepzone tactically ignored. |
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Outstrip (f)
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Aloy you are wrong. My family on my mother's side is from Arondizogu and I had family and might still have some living that are in ekpe.
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Outstrip (f)
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Aloy what's your family name?
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ifyalways (f)
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madam you are wrong. Ekpe is a calabar culture. You may be talking of okonko.
You are wrong here ! Ekpe is a festival celebrated in places like Arochukwu,Ihechiowa,Ututu,Ikwuano,Umuahia etc. Its a masquerade festival capped with native dances and wrestling in some places.  It might be pagan oriented but i know Christians alike still celebrate it.(cook,invite friends and have fun) Its has nothing whatsoever to do with ritual killings or sacrifices.  |
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DeepZone
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It might be pagan oriented Undecided but i know Christians alike still celebrate it.(cook,invite friends and have fun)
Its has nothing whatsoever to do with ritual killings or sacrifices. Yea right |
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ezeagu (m)
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Why don't people do research before coming onto the internet to insult people, who told you what happened in Ekpe and Okonko ceremonies, lol, their ancestors used these establishments to govern law, if not your sorry behinds might have been killed because there would have been nothing to protect your ancestors, have you ever heard of the free masons?
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romeo (m)
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Just when you thought stupid people don't register in Nairaland anymore, new one will just pop out from nowhere  |
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presido1
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Aloy you are wrong. My family on my mother's side is from Arondizogu and I had family and might still have some living that are in ekpe.
Arondizogu and ekpe not too sure, what they do is IKEJI FESTIVAL. As for Okonko my villa do that one, every 3rd month of the year. Its just festival to usher in the new planting season. The wkend is always lively, peops come from far and wide to celebrate it. Just when you thought stupid people don't register in Nairaland anymore, new one will just pop out from nowhere When something is free what do u expect. |
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shotster50 (m)
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Ignorance is a very dangerous disease,
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