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My thoughts on the following quote:

7. Ah Affoe Way Cah: It's a corruption of the Igbo words "Afor Nwoke"(pronounced Ah-for Wo Keh). Afor means a lot in Igbo - Year, Stomach, name of a market day -. Nwoke simply means man.
Page 24, "...They calculated our time, and foretold events, as their name imported, for we called them Ah-affoe way-cah, which signifies calculators or yearly men, our year being called Ah-affoe..."

Ah Affoe Way Cah

Ah Affoe =>Oke Afor => Yearly Man
Nwa Afor => Son of the Soil
OR
Ah Affoe => Aha Afor => Name the Year
=> Namer of the Year
(like the Chinese do e.g. Year of the Dragon)



Way Cah => Nwa Eke => Son of God,
The Creator
(Eke Kere Uwa => God Who Created The Earth)
OR
Way Cah => Wu Nka => Is This

Therefore,

Ah Affoe Way Cah
=> Yearly Man, Son of God, The Creator
OR
=> Son of the Soil, Son of God, The Creator
OR
=> ...THE NAME OF THE YEAR IS THIS...
=> ...THE NAME OF THIS YEAR IS...

Compare also with

1 Chronicles 12:32 (KJV) And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

Postscript

Finally, the following just might be the correct translation of [7]

Ah Affoe Way Cah => A ha afor, enwe nka
=>
when they calculate|compute|describe|share the year, we shall have long life

AGAIN

Essaka=>Isseke =>Issachar-tribe of Yearly men
=> Issachar is a progenitor of this lineage?