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please I heard the aro was the dominant force in the Eastern region before colonialism.Do I want to know if they colonized other tribes there. I heard they colonized the Efik/Ibibio

Sinzumoney:
please I heard the aro was the dominant force in the Eastern region before colonialism.Do I want to know if they colonized other tribes there. I heard they colonized the Efik/Ibibio

It depends on what you mean by 'colonize'.

If you mean 'colonize' in the sense that the British colonised Nigeria, then no.

But they established influential trading colonies among the Annang/Ibibio and other groups; and were active traders and oracle agents throughout the old Eastern Region, and that includes Bonny and Kalabari.

Their Long Juju was even known and consulted from as far away as Nembe.

Sinzumoney:
please I heard the aro was the dominant force in the Eastern region before colonialism.Do I want to know if they colonized other tribes there. I heard they colonized the Efik/Ibibio

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The truth is that people like you are illiterates of the highest order trying to console yourself with miseries of the past, Arros are nothing to any of the above tribes but a terror to every other Igbos.
The entire slave taken out of the coastal areas of Itu, Ikot Abasi( Opopo), Bonny and the mother port CALABAR were Ibos.
The Ogons had no dealings with any tribe except the Ibibios and it is known that they never married any except themselves and Ibibios.
Arros never saw any inland port of the Ibibios not to talk of the Atlantic ocean, they had no dealings with the Europeans, they colonized Ibos and were only suppliers of IBO's slaves to the Ibibios middle men.
Arros are IBO's, Ibibios, Akpas, mixtures I can say an hybrid of IBOs, together with Abribas and Bende tribe that practices the Ibibios cultures but never dared control Ibibios, Ogonis, etc but did colonized the ibos

VIPERVEN0M:
The ibibio man is a crafty snake that can not be trusted.
Ibibio is not Efik and Efik is not Ibibio. stop getting things mixed up and always wanting to claim other's glory. you have your own state now . get your point straight. Efik and ibibio are the same ethnic group but not the same people just as Idemili and Aro or Owerre are not the same . Ibibio were also enslaved and influenced by Efiks and that's why these days ibibio copy Efik culture and typical Efik names.
Afang soup,Afia efere,Abak soup etc are all efik foods. The traditional ibibio dressing are alladopted from Efik's . these names are all Efik names : Bassey,Essien,Archibong,Inyang,Ekpe,Edet,Ekanem,Ekpeyong,Effiong,Okon,Edem,etc in addition to Victorian era influenced names which have become part of Efik Culture :Duke ,Henshaw ,Ironbar , Cobham , Hogan etc.
These days ibibio try to copy Efiks or wanting to be more enlightened by taking on some silly English surnames like Charles ,Carter,Markson etc lol
What happened between Efiks and Aros /Ohafia was business partnership,cultural affinity and exchange and admixtures. Efiks influenced the Aros. It wouldn't be far fetched to insinuate many Aros might originally be Efiks. Meanwhile Aro,Ngwa and other igbo groups were always at loggerheads with ibibios and annangs.

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Honestly you must be very stupid,copy who? I don't recognise who you say you are, except for some group of people kicked out by their kinsfolks from Uruan and Oku Iboku several years ago.
Duke, Ironbar, Henshaw, Hogan are purely English/Scottish names so cut the stupid crap of Victorian influenced garbage as for those Ibibios names you mentioned as non-Ibibios maybe you need that head of yours reexamined.
Charles, Markson, Carter which Ibibio answer such nonsense, are they not Victorian Influenced names you copycats also use?

VIPERVEN0M:
We know you are Jealous and Envious of Efik/Calabar.

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Envious of what? I can smell your inferiority complex, you don't know your history. Where have you see a tree jealous of the branch

VIPERVEN0M:
It seems you lost the plot and don't even know what you're doing. It's visible and audible to the blind and deaf that you are envious and have inferiority complex towards Efiks. That's why you are everywhere on this forum ,facebook,Wikipedia ,etc posting baseless fallacy, trying hard to discredit and tarnish Efik/Calabar,and wishing Efik Calabar evil . Very funny. I don't know why Akwa ibom people have such wicked hearts. I just don't get it . Even if Efiks ever migrated from Ibibio which is false , Efik is not Ibibio and ibibio is not Efik. Efik language is more refined and appealing than Ibibio,annang and Oro language. Efik culture and history is richer and more appealing.
No one gives you time of day despite your cunning ways. Efiks do not hate Akwa ibom people , just want you to stay your lane . Efiks are wiser now and actions going forward will reflect that , Since your true colors has been revealed.

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I can see you are a gutter rat trying to get my attention, you can check my old posts I have dealt with your kind a guy called Beachside before he went for a name change.
I can very well see your mentality is primitive and disgusting for my liking, I only specialise in dealing with the other major ethnic groups instead of bantering with minorities like me and not to talk of a people I see as one
I have plenty of ego puffing Yoruba's, Ibos and Hausa to feed on, I don't share in your local Ibibio/Efik, Oro, Ejahgham mentality cause I never lived in that whacked environment as a child so don't drag me into such local rants

VIPERVEN0M:
Lol, You sound really dumb and i'm only responding to you . Ibibio environment and mentality is local and inferior , Efik/Calabar is Superior and all Efiks around the world no matter where born and raised are proud of Efik/Calabar land,culture,food, history, and language.
And do you know anything about me to magically know were I was born or raised? Your sneaky and wicked ways make Efik distrustful of you. keep crying.
Many people create change monikers for different reason. One reason could be to avoid haters like you, lol

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Shut ur dirty mouth, run ya lose mouths to your fellow prawn and periwinkle selling greedy lots kicked out from their folds many of years ago, you own which calabar?
You only occupied the estuaries and creeks, the Efuts and Quas owns calabar....you were raised in the creek and you stink of it

VIPERVEN0M:
Lol ,Cry baby , keep crying .
The entire Calabar (Southern Cross river) is Efik land . Keep crying.

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Calabar south that ancient slum you mean to say...clap for urself!

nsiba:
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The truth is that people like you are illiterates of the highest order trying to console yourself with miseries of the past, Arros are nothing to any of the above tribes but a terror to every other Igbos.

The entire slave taken out of the coastal areas of Itu, Ikot Abasi (Opobo), Bonny and the mother port CALABAR were Ibos.

The Ogonis had no dealings with any tribe except the Ibibios and it is known that they never married any except themselves and Ibibios.

The Arros never saw any inland port of the Ibibios not to talk of the Atlantic ocean, they had no dealings with the Europeans, they colonized Ibos and were only suppliers of IBO's slaves to the Ibibios middle men.

Arros are IBO's, Ibibios, Akpas, mixtures I can say an hybrid of IBOs, together with Abribas and Bende tribe that practices the Ibibios cultures but never dared control Ibibios, Ogonis, etc but did colonized the ibos

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On the contrary, NOT all the slaves sold through the Southern Nigeria slave ports of Bonny Island, Calabar, Itu, Ikot Abasi (Opobo), etc, where from the interior Ibos who were largely captured and brought to the coast by the Aro slaves traders.

Based off of my advanced historical knowledge and readings (since the early 1980s right till date), the slave ship records from the archives that I have seen from the late 1780s to the early 1800s CLEARLY indicate that majority of the slaves brought by the Aros from the Ibo interior (and sold through the indigenous Ijaw middle men of Bonny Island to the American and European slave traders) were indeed Ibos with females constituting 80% of the Ibos (Eboes) sold at Bonny. BUT other ethnic or tribal groups existed as well among those sold. There were surprisingly to me even Hausa slaves sold at Bonny who were rescued with others on a slave ship in the 1800s and liberated in Freetown, Sierra Leone.


Second, indeed I once read a Punch interview about 10 years ago where the Head of the Ogoni Traditional Council in Rivers State CLEARLY stated that the Ogoni ethnic group came into existence as a result of the ancestral mixture of Ibibios and migrant fishing people from Ghana. Even one of the prominent Ogoni politicians who was a Senator stated on his Website that the IJAWS are made up of migrant fishing/boat people from Ghana (and this explains the mystery about the odd culture of matriarchy practiced by Ijaws in a LARGELY patriarchal Nigeria, and the Ijaw language which is different from other nearby Nigerian languages in terms of structure) who clearly began to evolve prominently in relatively recent history in what is now modern Nigeria within the last 500 to 600 years NOT longer as FALSELY claimed on Ijaw supremacist or propaganda Websites.

So, the Ogoni king or traditional ruler referenced above was very BLUNT in the Punch interview which I appreciated him for when he further said Ogoni language contains many words which are similar to those used in Ghana thereby affirming the part Ibibio and part migrant Ghanaian ethnic origins of the entire Ogoni people and language. However, he did NOT say what ethnic groups in Ghana these migrants boat and fishing people from Ghana are. He didn't say if the are Ewes, Ga, Akans, etc.