Origin of the Efik Communities - Onyeji Nnaji
Anybody claiming ignorant of the ethnic nationality collectively referred to as the Efik must have heard, seen or taken parts in the famous Calabar carnival conducted anually. The carnival evokes such conviviality that gains the attraction of people from different part of the world. To be precised, Calabar carnival has representatives from Brazil, Ghana and others. It forms the highest cultural ceremony celebrated in the southern part of Nigeria presently. The relevance of this cultural exposition in artistic form is that it circumnavigates through the cultures of the surroundings by serving as the primal avenue for the reminiscing of those cultural tools which colonialism had almost flushed out of history. Efik is a large community of people stretching from Calabar in Cross River State to certain parts of Akwa-Ibom State. One of the factors that jets Efik to prominence bothers on their relationship with the British crown domicile in London. As one of the settlers of the Atlantic coa