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ezeagu:
Of course it's an offensive word used by the Efik as well, the word comes from Efik and Ibibio and they are not very different. Maybe now the word has been normalised to mean 'Europeans' but it originally meant evil (cruel) white spirit because of the slave trade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbakara

Call it what you want to call it. There are a lot more differences than similarities between the Efik and the Ibibio's, I should know because I am Efik who is engaged to an Ibibio. "mbakara" is Ibibio while "makara" is Efik, both means white people 

Your translators are wrong and the spellings of what you wrote is also wrong. Use the link below for better translations and spelling
http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Courses/Summer04/Lexicography/IbibioDictionary/ibibio_dictionary01.pdf

ezeagu:
Mbakara is the Efik/Ibibio version of 'Cracker' (offensive term for white people)

That is incorrect. Mbakara means European in Ibibio, not Efik and it is not an offensive word.