powerhouse3:
see ,let's not go the way of my state is better ,instead let's school op on real undiluted history..

What we have as Ekpe society was a cult for big men then ....which leads to inventory of the popular Nsibidi....the Italian have ceaser cypher...

Now Nsibidi was for elite,thier mode of writing ,for people not to decipher , say I want to sell a slave and I gave him a note to give to the buyer without the slave finding out the content of the note ..


low ba3....will continue later

purpleicious:
EFIK EDI MBAKARA!

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?

Lordmykel:
The way akwa ibom people tried to make themselves relevant on this thread and still got ignored is very funny �.

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)

Attakwu101:
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.


Don't know if you are right, but sounds interesting

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.

jjhnja44es:
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:
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.

donnie:


Efik Eburutu. Eburutu being a corruption of Hebrew-Ututu. Ututu, a town in Arochukwu where Efiks were know to have earlier settled.

EFIK ARE ISRAELILITES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5s1brMbDZI

FlamingGun:
"Efik edi mbakara". Nothing can negate Efikness or Efik-being than these words. That Efik people really believe that they are "mbakara", white, speaks encyclopedic volumes about the Efik psyche.

When will the Efik accept who they are - Efik- exclusively? What troubles the Efik so much that they strive so hard to proclaim they are "mbakara", arrogating themselves a perceived but totally imaginary whiteness? How can the Efik nation thrive when they must first equate their culture first to "mbakarism", then to Judaism?

But there is no surprise here. Effiong Ukpong Aye, their leading beacon now dead, once claimed the Efik had Ghanaian ancestry!

The Efik will never feel happy enough in his skin because fundamentally, the Efik feels inferior to all other surrounding communities. The Efik must seek other references for validation, even if those references fall totally outside the realm of logic.

This debilitating mindset defines the Efik and remains the most singular reason Efikland is doomed. Since the Efik feel superior to the Ibibios and nations of northern Cross River (the later whom they refer to dismissively as "Atam people", they have sadly fooled themselves into believing in their own delusions.

"Efik edi mbakara." Indeed�.

jjhnja44es:

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.

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:
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.

DissTroy:


You are a jackass! Ibibios have always dominated the AkwaCross region and beyond. Ibibios dominate what is today Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State and parts of Abia State (Arochukwu).

The Ekpe Society is headquartered in Ibiono Ibom LGA, Akwa Ibom State. The Ibibios even dominate Cross River, and the civil service too. You dare not hold positions in Akwa Ibom State as an Efik person but Akwa Ibom decides what becomes of the Efiks and Cross River as a whole.

When the 76 oil wells were ceded from Cross Rivers to Akwa Ibom State in 2009, no Efik or Cross Riverian could muzzle it back. In the grand scheme of things, you all have always played second fiddle to the Ibibios. In politics, education, social strata, economics and in the diaspora.

Lugard resided in Akwa Ibom, and administrated and Amalgamated Nigeria from there. The Efiks attempt to try to rub shoulders with the Ibibios quickly led to the disintegration of the old Cross River State and spilt to form Akwa Ibom State. Today, the Ibibios are better than Uyo as they always have.

The Efiks were renamed Duke and Henshaw by the Europeans because you were slaves. Just like they enslaved most of the Ijaws, washing away their history and names too.

Writing alternative facts wouldn't change the history.

powerhouse3:
op is really drunk....so ibibio means slave in efik language ?....


so a slave will now install your king....


if oku odu from uraun in akwa ibom state is not there to install your obong of calabar,can your king be recognize as legitimate?

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.

Adam09:


Uraun is Efik