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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by richidinho(m): 3:45pm On May 06, 2015
vheMa:
And y is the masquerade looking so identical like that seed that normally makes ppl dance,when its drops on the body I mean weyreypelipsrsealed

You can talk erhn

If I be ur boyfrnd that ur small waist for don break
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Nobody: 3:49pm On May 06, 2015
richidinho:


You can talk erhn

If I be ur boyfrnd that ur small waist for don break
you can notice person ern

If I be your GF that you bald headlipsrsealed for don grow hair grin

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Yosifperfect(m): 3:50pm On May 06, 2015
;DNnyin idi mbakara

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by nseud: 3:53pm On May 06, 2015
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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by ubyways(m): 3:54pm On May 06, 2015
they are the first tribe to embrace western education, take it or leave it
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by baybeeboi: 3:54pm On May 06, 2015
glin:
Op u forgot to add that they circumcise their female children.
Which is too bad!
but that wasn't practiced only by Efiks nau.
let's say you just added one.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by JBismarck(m): 3:57pm On May 06, 2015
I disagree with u on the education aspect. Western educattion reached Lagos long before 1895. At least CMS Grammar School would have been like 40 years old before Hope Waddel College was established. Check the dates.i

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by richidinho(m): 3:58pm On May 06, 2015
vheMa:
you can notice person ern

If I be your GF that you bald headlipsrsealed for don grow hair grin

Which of the bald head?
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 4:03pm On May 06, 2015
braintext:
I'm Annang

Just curious, what is the difference between Annang and Ibibio?

The language sounds similar, the customs are similar so where is the difference?
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by dorin27(f): 4:10pm On May 06, 2015
Babybeeboi are you not the yemen guy who hates, kill and hang Nigerians? How come you know about efik? The last time I checked Efik is a language spoken in cross-river, and cross-river is a state in Nigeria. You can lie for Africa sha.....Smh.

#ProudlyAkwa-Ibomite#
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Skoopy(m): 4:14pm On May 06, 2015
Talk of education, you remind me of Nigeria's first professor, Prof. Eyo Ita an efik man.

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by ezeagu(m): 4:18pm On May 06, 2015
aim5:


Yup especially the Efiks and Ijaws. You can see it in their liberal culture and abundance of English surnames.

They were 'liberal' before Europeans, in fact the Europeans that influenced them, the Victorians, were not liberal at all.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by ezeagu(m): 4:20pm On May 06, 2015
baybeeboi:
ORIGIN: The Efiks are believed to be originally from Uduak Eset (Isangele) in Cameroon before they migrated to Nigeria as far back as 8,000 BC.

The Efik migrated from their Ibibio homeland in the 1500s, changed their system of government, got rich and the rest is history.

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by leonprince: 4:22pm On May 06, 2015
OP plz get your date right Nobody was alive by 8000BC. Even Adam from now is believed to be 6000 years back and jesus is 2000 years back. So I like ur write up bt abeg change the date to the correct one.

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Pinkieblue(f): 4:25pm On May 06, 2015
They are neat and g00d c00ks

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by gsparks01(m): 4:27pm On May 06, 2015
are there no Efik speaking ppl in Akwa Ibom??
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by braintext(m): 4:29pm On May 06, 2015
mmsen:


Just curious, what is the difference between Annang and Ibibio?

The language sounds similar, the customs are similar so where is the difference?


I dnt really know ooo...but my parent do
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Queenybliss(f): 4:30pm On May 06, 2015
indeed "efik EDI mbakara" em proud 2 b a dauta of d soil

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Nobody: 4:31pm On May 06, 2015
The Efik had interesting traditions with one of them being the Fattening Room practice. Here, virgins were overfed, massaged and made to sleep for long periods to become the perfect, robust bride
This is also practised in Okrika Kingdom
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by shiki(m): 4:40pm On May 06, 2015
Here, virgins were overfed, massaged and made to sleep for long periods to become the perfect, robust bride.

Nowadays, it seems there's NO virgin here in calabar smiley
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 4:47pm On May 06, 2015
leonprince:
OP plz get your date right Nobody was alive by 8000BC. Even Adam from now is believed to be 6000 years back and jesus is 2000 years back. So I like ur write up bt abeg change the date to the correct one.

'Lucy' is 3.2 million years old and the oldest known human.

Homo sapiens are said to be 195,000 years old.

Your Bible is a book of fairy tales not historical fact.

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by baybeeboi: 4:57pm On May 06, 2015
shiki:
Here, virgins were overfed, massaged and made to sleep for long periods to become the perfect, robust bride.

Nowadays, it seems there's NO virgin here in calabar smiley
una d allow girl be virgin again?
As e d comot na so una d disvirgin am.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by seeker121(m): 5:02pm On May 06, 2015
And "bedmatic" skill omo i doff my hat for them gonna those days when i was serving in cross river,s*x should be your last problem because they are always within ur reach.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by mmsen: 5:06pm On May 06, 2015
aim5:


Yup especially the Efiks and Ijaws. You can see it in their liberal culture and abundance of English surnames.

Those 'English' surnames came about because the English were too lazy to pronounce Efik names properly and also English was the language of trade - so 'Nsa' became Henshaw.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by Nobody: 5:07pm On May 06, 2015
aim5:


Yup especially the Efiks and Ijaws. You can see it in their liberal culture and abundance of English surnames.

Definitely not Ijaws. The Ijaws of old were timid and generally avoided the white men and vice versa. Another group that dealt largely with the whites was the Itsekiris.
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by sparkleRed(f): 5:08pm On May 06, 2015
glin:
Op u forgot to add that they circumcise their female children.
Which is too bad!

Dats a lie! Ee ahahaqh
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by TheSonOfMark(m): 5:09pm On May 06, 2015
okooloyun1:
Their traditional attire dey scare kids away

You mean like the gully-like tribal marks of your Yoruba tribe? smiley

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by baybeeboi: 5:09pm On May 06, 2015
dorin27:
baybeeboi are you not the yemen guy who hates, kill and hang Nigerians? How come you know about efik? The last time I checked Efik is a language spoken in cross-river, and cross-river is a state in Nigeria. You can lie for Africa sha.....Smh.#ProudlyAkwa-Ibomite#



you know nothing,dorin27
#proudly Yemenis
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by TheSonOfMark(m): 5:11pm On May 06, 2015
seeker121:
And "bedmatic" skill omo i doff my hat for them gonna those days when i was serving in cross river,s*x should be your last problem because they are always within ur reach.
okooloyun1:
Their traditional attire dey scare kids away

At least they not use unsuspecting people for rituals like your tribe. smiley
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by hardbody: 5:15pm On May 06, 2015
Queenybliss:
indeed "efik EDI mbakara" em proud 2 b a dauta of d soil

Ndiongoke ke afo edi eyen efik. Ami nko ndi ata eyen isong.

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Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by TheSonOfMark(m): 5:15pm On May 06, 2015
barcanista:
This is also practised in Okrika Kingdom

Same with the Ibibios. We call them 'Mpopo'smiley
Re: 5 Facts You Should Know About The Efik People by TheSonOfMark(m): 5:18pm On May 06, 2015
hardbody:


Ndiongoke ke afo edi eyen efik. Ami nko ndi ata eyen isong.

Ikpa, Ibibio ke afo wed ado idogo Efuk. There are differences in their semantics and pronunciations. smiley

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