The Utomo Obong is an annual parade and ceremony in honor of the Obong of CALABAR.
Carnival is only an English term for the parade which was transported by slave descendant to Brazil ,Cuba,Trinidad and Barbados .
The parade was later modified with elements of modernity and flamboyancy.

Sadly many Nigerians and Africans do not appreciate their own and even see carnival as imported from Brazil when in fact carnival is actually African culture adapted by slave descendants to keep to celebrate their African roots.
The carnival is not just any African culture but precisely Efik Calabar culture . Calabar was one of the major West African slave ports.

Efik Cubans and Brazilians

The Abakua mutual-aid society of Cuba, re-created in the 1830S from several local variants of the Ekpe leopard society of West Africa’s Cross River basin,is a richly detailed example of African cultural transmission to the Americas.

https://efiks.org/efik-of-the-new-world/efik-cubans/

maybe na efik people Dem carry go caribbean as slaves far back I no talk o

chuka5000:
maybe na efik people Dem carry go caribbean as slaves far back
I no talk o

Efiks enslaved and sold mostly Ibibios ,some present day Central Cross river, and Igbos from the hinterland who were captured by Arochukwu and sold to Efiks to be sold to the European Merchants. Some Efiks at the bottom of society were also sold by elite Efiks .
Efik culture was dominant and more influential. whether most of the slaves were Efiks or not, Efik culture and methods survived in the Americas.

I think a good example would be the fact that the English culture survived and thrived in North America even though the English were fewer in number. For example,you would be hard pressed to find a pure English descendant American founder . Most white Americans today are actually German,Dutch ,Irish,Scottish,Italian descendants who adopted English names to fit in , as oppose to the original English whose culture was Dominant though had smaller population. Donald Trump , George Bush, John Kennedy,Hulk Hogan are not English blood like George Washington , Bill Clinton,Abraham Lincoln, or Andrew Jackson.
And in the Akwacross area today you can see the same pattern played out as Ibibio and annang adopted original Efik names and methods .names such as Bassey , Essien, Ekanem,Edet, Inyang, Etim, Edem,Ansa,Ekeng,, etc. They were not allowed to adopt some elite Anglo Efik names such as Ironbar, Duke,Henshaw, Hogan,Yellow-duke,Archibong, Effiom, etc. Those names were maintained in small circles and traced to lineage.

jjhnja44es:
Efiks enslaved and sold mostly Ibibios ,some present day Central Cross river, and Igbos from the hinterland who were captured by Arochukwu and sold to Efiks to be sold to the European Merchants. Some Efiks at the bottom of society were also sold by elite Efiks .
Efik culture was dominant and more influential. whether most of the slaves were Efiks or not, Efik culture and methods survived in the Americas.

I think a good example would be the fact that the English culture survived and thrived in North America even though the English were fewer in number. For example,you would be hard pressed to find a pure English descendant American founder . Most white Americans today are actually German,Dutch ,Irish,Scottish,Italian descendants who adopted English names to fit in , as oppose to the original English whose culture was Dominant though had smaller population. Donald Trump , George Bush, John Kennedy,Hulk Hogan are not English blood like George Washington , Bill Clinton,Abraham Lincoln, or Andrew Jackson.
And in the Akwacross area today you can see the same pattern played out as Ibibio and annang adopted original Efik names and methods .names such as Bassey , Essien, Ekanem,Edet, Inyang, Etim, Edem,Ansa,Ekeng,, etc. They were not allowed to adopt some elite Anglo Efik names such as Ironbar, Duke,Henshaw, Hogan,Yellow-duke,Archibong, Effiom, etc. Those names were maintained in small circles and traced to lineage.

What fvckery!

So Duke and Wellington and henshaw that oyibo people named the slaves in their house for easy communication is now an elite name and aristocratic?

Oya na make we dey go brazil to warn them say na we get the culture. Lai Mohammed will help and sanction them.

Rubbish and buhari

truth be told, the only reason y this cultural act is loved n practiced in the Caribbean is because its a show of nudity...

ChoCho54:
What fvckery!

So Duke and Wellington and henshaw that oyibo people named the slaves in their house for easy communication is now an elite name and aristocratic?

Names like Ironbar,Duke,Henshaw,Hogan,Cobham, etc where adopted by Efik elite families to feel educated or higher in status than the commoners back then. today those names have become part of Efik culture and even pronounced with Efik intonation. But even before the arrival of the Europeans some elite Efik names were :Eyamba , Archibong, Eyo etc. (Eyamba, name of the ruling Efik House of Atakpa(Duke Town)

jjhnja44es:
The Utomo Obong is an annual parade and ceremony in honor of the Obong of CALABAR.
Carnival is only an English term for the parade which was transported by slave descendant to Brazil ,Cuba,Trinidad and Barbados .
The parade was later modified with elements of modernity and flamboyancy.

Sadly many Nigerians and Africans do not appreciate their own and even see carnival as imported from Brazil when in fact carnival is actually African culture adapted by slave descendants to keep to celebrate their African roots.
The carnival is not just any African culture but precisely Efik Calabar culture . Calabar was one of the major West African slave ports .



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Na everybody dey praise himself? What about the Jesus of Calabar that you transported to Jerusalem and now renamed Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Nonsense without ingredients.

We have rich cultural heritage in nigeria.

Beautiful people.

jjhnja44es:
Names like Ironbar,Duke,Henshaw,Hogan,Cobham, etc where adopted by Efik elite families to feel educated or higher in status than the commoners back then. today those names have become part of Efik culture and even pronounced with Efik intonation. But even before the arrival of the Europeans some elite Efik names were :Eyamba , Archibong, Eyo etc. (Eyamba, name of the ruling Efik House of Atakpa(Duke Town)

The Efiks has a rich history. But why are they called owners of Calabar, when the Quas have a king in Calabar and the Efuts also have their king in Calabar?

Exmilitant:

Efik language and culture is what is spoken and practiced in Calabar?Calabar is Efik land. Obong of Calabar is first class King . Efik Efut and Qua are one . The name of the Muri of efut is Effiong Okon Mbukpa which is Efik name, there's no such language . Go to Calabar and ask who is Efut or Efik or this and that and you would get a stare because such a thing does not exist .
Only jealous ,envious and evil people bring division and mostly blacks like doing that ,that's why Africa is at the bottom today.

jjhnja44es:
The Utomo Obong is an annual parade and ceremony in honor of the Obong of CALABAR.
Carnival is only an English term for the parade which was transported by slave descendant to Brazil ,Cuba,Trinidad and Barbados .
The parade was later modified with elements of modernity and flamboyancy.

Sadly many Nigerians and Africans do not appreciate their own and even see carnival as imported from Brazil when in fact carnival is actually African culture adapted by slave descendants to keep to celebrate their African roots.
The carnival is not just any African culture but precisely Efik Calabar culture . Calabar was one of the major West African slave ports .



Lalasticlala mynd44 frontpage

My father used to have a miniature replica of that masquerade(the one in the first picture) in his office.

I can't remember what he called it but he said it was presented to him when he was at the Eastern Command(Calabar to be precise) for some duty.

It used to be at our house but he realised I was scared of it and then he took it away.

@Topic we cannot wish it away, the longterm effects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade will always mean that the Caribbeans are largely a cultural extension of the African continent.

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ChoCho54:
What fvckery!

So Duke and Wellington and henshaw that oyibo people named the slaves in their house for easy communication is now an elite name and aristocratic?

jjhnja44es:
Names like Ironbar,Duke,Henshaw,Hogan,Cobham, etc where adopted by Efik elite families to feel educated or higher in status than the commoners back then. today those names have become part of Efik culture and even pronounced with Efik intonation. But even before the arrival of the Europeans some elite Efik names were :Eyamba , Archibong, Eyo etc. (Eyamba, name of the ruling Efik House of Atakpa(Duke Town)

You're correct. My name is Eyo though.

Proudly Efik, Proudly Calabar. But that short root of a governor messing up the state

The Abakua mutual-aid society of Cuba is a notable one.

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Carnival is not an African or efik culture

No culture has the monopoly of parade or carnival

Colourful

Africa is blessed just that we have bad leaders

Noted

Alright