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Efik people

Index Efik people

The Efik are an ethnic group located primarily in southeastern Nigeria, in the southern part of Cross River State. [1]

45 relations: Akamkpa, Akwa Ibom State, Anaang people, Antera Duke, Arochukwu, Bakassi, Biase, Calabar, Cameroon, Christianity, Cross River (Nigeria), Cross River languages, Cross River State, Edikang Ikong, Efik language, Efik mythology, Eket, Ekoi people, Ekpe, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, English language, French language, Geopolitical zones of Nigeria, Hogan Bassey, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Ibibio people, Igbo people, Igboland, Ijaw people, Ikom, Iyanya, Kalabari Kingdom, Kamerun, Margaret Ekpo, Mary Slessor, Methodist Boys' High School, Oron, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nsibidi, Opobo, Oron people, Public domain, Rivers State, Shirley Bassey, Uruan.

Akamkpa

Akamkpa is a Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria.

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Akwa Ibom State

Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria.

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Anaang people

The Anaang (also spelled Annang) is a cultural and ethnic group native to "South South" geopolitical zone in Nigeria.

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Antera Duke

Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was an 18th-century African slave dealer and Efik chief from Calabar in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State).

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Arochukwu

Arochukwu, sometimes referred to as Arochuku or Aro-Okigbo, (pronounced Aruchukwu) is the third largest city in Abia State (after Aba and Umuahia) in southeastern Nigeria and homeland of the Igbo subgroup, Aro people.

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Bakassi

Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea.

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Biase

Biase is a Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria.

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Calabar

Calabar (also referred to as "Canaan City") is a city in Cross River State, in south southern Nigeria.

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Cameroon

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Cross River (Nigeria)

Cross River (native name: Oyono) is the main river in southeastern Nigeria and gives its name to Cross River State.

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Cross River languages

The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost Cameroon.

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Cross River State

Cross River is a state in South South Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east.

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Edikang Ikong

Edikang Ikong is a vegetable soup that originated among the Efik- Ibibio people of Akwa Ibom State and Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.

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Efik language

Efik proper; Efik.

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Efik mythology

In Efik mythology, Abassi is considered to be the Supreme Creator (God).

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Eket

Eket is the second largest city in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

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Ekoi people

Ekoi people, also known as Ejagham, are an ethnic group in the extreme southeast of Nigeria and extending eastward into the southwest region of Cameroon.

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Ekpe

Ekpe, also known as Ekpo, is a secret society flourishing chiefly among the Efiks of the Cross River State, the Oron, of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Arochukwu and some parts of Abia State, as well as in the diaspora, such as in Cuba and Brazil.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Geopolitical zones of Nigeria

The six geopolitical zones of Nigeria is a major division in modern Nigeria, created during the regime of president General Sani Abacha.

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Hogan Bassey

Hogan "Kid" Bassey MBE (3 June 1932 – 26 January 1998) was a Nigerian-British boxer; he was the first man of Nigerian descent to become a world boxing champion.

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Hope Waddell Training Institution

The Hope Waddell Training Institution (HWTI) is a school in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria founded by missionaries from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1895.

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Ibibio people

The Ibibio people are from southern Nigeria.

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Igbo people

The Igbo people (also Ibo," formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group native to the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria.

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Igboland

Igboland (Standard), also known as Southeastern Nigeria, is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people.

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Ijaw people

Ijaw people (also known by the subgroups "Ijo" or "Izon") are a collection of peoples indigenous to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, inhabiting regions of the states of Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers.

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Ikom

Ikom is a Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria.

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Iyanya

Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk (born 31 October 1986), better known by his stage name Iyanya, is a Nigerian recording artist and performer.

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Kalabari Kingdom

The Kalabari Kingdom, also called Elem Kalabari (New Shipping Port) is the independent traditional Kingdom State of the Kalabari people, an Ijaw ethnic group, in the Niger River Delta.

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Kamerun

German Cameroon (Kamerun) was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon.

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Margaret Ekpo

Margaret Ekpo (July 27, 1914 – September 21, 2006) was a Nigerian women's rights activist and social mobilizer who was a pioneering female politician in the country's First Republic and a leading member of a class of traditional Nigerian women activists, many of whom rallied women beyond notions of ethnic solidarity.

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Mary Slessor

Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria.

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Methodist Boys' High School, Oron

Methodist Boys’ High School (MBHS) Oron, Nigeria was established on 18 September 1905 following a proposal by Rev.

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Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Nsibidi

Nsibidi (also known as nsibiri, nchibiddi or nchibiddy) is a system of symbols indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria that is apparently an ideographic script, though there have been suggestions that it includes logographic elements.

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Opobo

Opobo is a city-state in the southern region of Nigeria.

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Oron people

The Oro people are comprised in five Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Akwa Ibom State, and Bakassi LGA in Cross River State.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria.

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Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).

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Uruan

Uruan is located in the south of Nigeria and is a Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efik_people

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