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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: Etara Mgbè Burial: age-old legacies attacked by churches

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Etara Mgbè Burial: age-old legacies attacked by churches. Text and photographs (2015) by Dr. Ivor Miller and Dr. Abu Edet, Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Etara is an Éjághám-speaking community in Etung L.G.A., Cross River State. The Sacred Language of the Abakuá.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: If We Lose Our Monolith Heritage, We Lose Our Identity

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Monday, 20 July 2015. If We Lose Our Monolith Heritage, We Lose Our Identity. The Guardian, a national newspaper in Nigeria, published an article about Dr. Miller's research on Monolith Heritage in Africa (June 28, 2015). Introduction: Spirit Dancers, Water Deities and Mystics in the Cross River Basin and in Cuba. The Sacred Language of the Abakuá.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: Introduction: Spirit Dancers, Water Deities & Mystics in the Cross River Basin and in Cuba

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Introduction: Spirit Dancers, Water Deities and Mystics in the Cross River Basin and in Cuba. Map from Teugels et al. (1992). Bassey, (Engineer) Bassey Efiong. 1998/ 2001. Ekpe Efik: A Theosophical Perspective. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing. Vol 30 : 37-61. Vol II, no. 1 December : 105-114. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP. Urbana: U of Illinois Press.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: Cross River Monoliths: Nigeria's Stonehenge

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Monday, 20 July 2015. Cross River Monoliths: Nigeria's Stonehenge. Research reports from our surveys of the monolith sites in the Upper Cross River, January-March 2015. By Dr. Ivor Miller and Dr. Abu Edet, Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Upcoming film project: Seven year Ékpè ritual cycle.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. The Sacred Language of the Abakuá. Cuban ethnographer and writer Lydia Cabrera (1899 Havana — 1991 USA) compiled a 530 page dictionary of Abakuá language, originally published as La lengua sagrada de los Náñigos. Miami: Ediciones Universales, Colección del Chickerekú en el exile, 1988). We are translating this work as The Sacred Language of the Abakuá. Lydia Cab...

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: Chief Ekpenyong Oku — bead works

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Chief Ekpenyong Oku — bead works. The artist at work. Chief Ekpenyong Oku, born January 2, 1943, is from Ékpè Oku House in Mbarakom Ward, Creek Town. He is an Obong Ékpè at the Efe Ékpè Essien Ékpè, Mbarakom, Creek Town. He lives at #1 Oku Atai Street, Calabar South. The artist making a variety of caps. The top of an Ékpè. The top of an Ékpè. Craig D. Miller.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: James O. Agasi — Ùkárá cloth

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. James O. Agasi — Ùkárá cloth. James Agasi (right) displays an Ùkárá cloth at his workshop. James first buys the white cotton cloth in the market, and then draws the Nsìbìdì (coded) designs on it. He uses raffia thread to stitch the designs, and then dyes the cloth in indigo. The cotton cloth is stitched and ready to be dyed. A finished loincloth, ready for market.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: July 2015

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Monday, 20 July 2015. Cross River Monoliths: Nigeria's Stonehenge. Research reports from our surveys of the monolith sites in the Upper Cross River, January-March 2015. By Dr. Ivor Miller and Dr. Abu Edet, Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. If We Lose Our Monolith Heritage, We Lose Our Identity.

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora: Ntufam Bob Oku — literature, music and drawings

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Cross River Cultural Heritage: reports from home and from the African Diaspora. Ukara cloth detail, Etara community, Cross River State, Nigeria. Ntufam Bob Oku — literature, music and drawings. Ntufam Bob Oku (in front), dances during an Mgb è. Celebration at Agbokim Waterfalls, January 2015 (I. Miller photo). Institution who has been promoting traditional values through his artistic work. In 2008, Bob Oku founded the Abhon Arim ‘young spirits’ cultural troupe, that has been passionately expr...Culture, ...