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ABAKUA IS THE SECRET SOCIETY CREATED IN CUBA BY THE ENSLAVED IBIBIOS OF IBIONO-IBOM ENYENISON ENKAMA: (kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJS9dodjmLJjh9E), In the song by ENYENISON ENKAMA, there is no mention of EFIK anywhere, but that doesn't discount the fact that they, though much less in number, were also involved in the creation of ABAKUA. In my opinion, the song is the ABAKUA IBIBIO version of "BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON." Nowhere in the song did they mention EFIK. So, how did the Efiks get the idea that ABAKUA was founded by the Efiks in Cuba? During the Atlantic slave trade era, Efik slave traders used to go on "hunting" raids up and down the Cross River and its tributaries, raiding the surrounding villages and farming communities for Ibibios to kidnap, transport to Calabar and ultimately deliver to European slave ships. IBIONO-IBOM, which shares a common border with ITU, was obviously the place where some of the Ibibios were seized. IBIONO-IBOM is a short distance from the ancient IBIBIO KINGDOM known as IBOM (now AROCHUKWU). IBIONO pronounced IBI-Y-IONO, means DWELLINGS. IBOM means NATION or KINGDOM. IBIONO-IBOM means the DWELLINGS of the NATION (KINGDOM). That sounds like a place where people (probably the priests, diviners, chieftains, elites and other important personalities) stayed after being forced out of IBOM following the loss of that territory to the victorious IGBO-ARO (AKPA?)-EKOI ALLIANCE. Prior to being sold to the slave ship captains, many of their victims were held in camps and sprawling compounds owned by Efik slave merchants. During the transit period, the Ibibio captives somehow formed what became known as NKA IYIP, or the BLOOD BROTHERHOOD. NKA means Brotherhood or Association. IYIP means Blood. NKA IYIP was probably organized for self-defense or morale boosting. IBIONO-IBOM members of NKA IYIP (Association of Blood Men) who were enslaved in CUBA later founded the ABAKUA SECRET SOCIETY, an offshoot of their ancestral EKPE and EKPO SOCIETIES. That explains why their Cuban descendants, adherents of ABAKUA, sing so many songs extolling the beauty, virtues and greatness of IBIBIO, IBOM, IBIONO-IBOM, EKPE, EKPO, and ABAKUA! READ MORE: "It will be suggested that its origins may also lie in the Nka lyip (Association of Blood Men) whose membership was mainly slaves in Old Calabar. The origins of the Blood Men may have been much earlier, possibly in the eighteenth century. The Abakua Secret Society may also have emerged much earlier than 1836 and possibly in the late eighteenth century." SOURCE: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240208704612?fbclid=IwAR1qKcPxfXGzsuEwSVIIATB3yyHXaF2QUzupt75fqdhC4ZF-QS3JvPfrHgE Besides, it's well-documented that the vast majority of people kidnapped from OLD IBOM (Arochukwu) and the non-Ibo areas were IBIBIOS. The Efiks were very, very small in number, and depended heavily on the Ibibios for practically everything, including the victims needed to support their nefarious trade in human beings. The Efiks are a branch of Ibibio. Their ancestors, numbering approximately 3, 000 - 4, 000, were chased out of Uruan after losing a bitter religious war. Uruan is an ancient city in Ibibioland. The Efiks trekked over to the territory now known as CALABAR where the QUAS, EFUTS and the EJAGHAMS gave them pieces of land to settle upon. That's why the Efiks of Calabar still pay dues to these ethnic groups to this day. The Efiks always brag about how they kidnapped and sold off their Ibibio brethren. The Ibibios who were kidnapped and taken to Calabar were usually kept in camps or compounds owned by Efik slave traders. Some of the captives-in-transit, including those from IBIONO IBOM, formed a secret society called NKA IYIP (BLOOD BROTHERHOOD), most likely for self-defense and morale boosting while awaiting the unknown. I would argue that it was the IBIBIO natives-- the enslaved NKA IYIP members of IBIONO-IBOM extraction--- who later created ABAKUA. There might have been some EFIK ELEMENTS among them, but in practically all Abakua songs I've heard on KZbin, the singers repeatedly extol the greatness, beauty and virtues of Akwa Ibom, Ibibio, IBIONO-IBOM, etc. None mentioned EFIK. There is no mention of EFIK anywhere in this song by ENYENISON EKAMA, but that doesn't discount the fact that they, though much less in number, were also involved in the creation of ABAKUA. The Abakua songs that I have heard are mostly songs of nostalgia and emotional yearnings after IBOM and IBIONO-IBOM. They're really the communal laments of Cuba's Abakua adherents about being exiled from their ancestral IBIONO-IBOM homeland. In the Bible as well as the Torah, PSALM 137 is the Abakua equivalent of such lamentations: www.chabad.org/…/b…/aid/16358/jewish/Chapter-137.htm If Dr. Ivor Miller said IBIONO-IBOM is the birthplace of ABAKUA, he was right. When you hear the Cubans themselves repeatedly singing about IBIONO-IBOM, why would anyone continue to perpetrate the falsehood that they're descendants of Efiks? Like I said, there is no mention of the word Efik in any of their songs. Another way of looking at it is that there was no such thing or name as "EFIK" during the time of those who were taken from Ibiono-Ibom and enslaved in Cuba. It could be that the name EFIK emerged long after they---the IBIONO-IBOM PEOPLE---had already left Africa. So, to them, everyone is IBIBIO. If that's true, then it means the name, EFIK, is really a mid-18th to late 18th century invention. OBIO IFIK means the land of oppression. OBIO = LAND or COUNTRY. IFIK = OPPRESSION. The oppression being a life in enslavement. The dwellers of that land---OBIO IFIK-- became known as EFIKS---THE OPPRESSED. In Ibibio, if you say, 'ESUK EFIK ENYE', that means he's being oppressed or they're oppressing him or her. To my knowledge, there are three other places in Nigeria named for SLAVERY and OPPRESSION. In the Niger Delta, there is the old slave city of FORCADOS. That means FORCED LABOR in Portuguese. ESCRAVOS is also in the Niger Delta. That name is the Portuguese word for SLAVES. In northern Nigeria, BAUCHI is the city named for SLAVERY. BAUCHI MEANS SLAVERY in Hausa! READ MORE: From the Niger to the Nile by Alexander, Boyd (1907) "It has a large market where not many years ago slaves were the chief commodity. In fact, the word " Bauchi " means " slavery " and the town was once one of the largest slave-markets in the Western Sudan." facebook.com/search/top/?q=bauchi%20amah%20jones%20&epa=SEARCH_BOX The translations below are not rendered in LINE-BY-LINE fashion. The words were picked and translated randomly, not in any particular order. The song's lyrics are really a mixture of mostly corrupted African words, but the IBIBIO words are the most prominent. In the song by ENYENISON ENKAMA, I hear corrupted Ibibio words like: "EKO'KO IBIONO MU NA TANG SE (SUE), EKO KO." IBIONO, IBIONO MU TANG SE (SUE)? They seem to be saying, EKOP, EKOP, IBIONO NTANG NSO? TRANSLATE: Hear me, Hear me, IBIONO, what I'm I saying?" "......TANG UYO MA YONG AKPABIO....." (SPEAK WITH A VOICE THAT HARKENS BACK TO THE FIRST NATION) ASIERE UBONG: UBONG = KINGDOM; ASIERE =THE BREAK of DAWN EKPE = (Lion or Leopard). "IBIAM AKUA" as mentioned in the song, appears to be the root words from which ABAKUA was formed. IBIAM is a corruption of MBIAM, an OATH. AKUA (AKWA) means MIGHTY. They could have corrupted the word IKUA which means SWORD, BLADE or KNIFE. In that case, it would be MBIAM IKUA. That means swearing an oath with a sword or blade. "IBIAM AKUA MA NKANIKA" ABAKUA DIVINERS with BELLS (as in church bells fastened to their waists). NKANIKA means BELLS. So, it would make sense to assume that IBIAM AKUA (MBIAM IKUA) in the song, is likely referencing the swearing of an oath with a sword, blade or knife. ETEYEN = FATHER of the CHILD. ETE = FATHER. EYEN = CHILD. The word ISUA means YEAR. USONGHO (ISONGHO) = BE STRONG. ABASI (God); Ekpe (Leopard or Lion); INYANG (Ocean); IBIONO = as in IBIONO IBOM; TANG (TALK or SAY) NSO (WHAT); SESE (Look); EYENE (To have or The owner or The beholder) ; EBONGO Ibom ( Exalt or Praise Ibom); ISANGHA IYONG (ISONGHO IYONG) = WALK BACK HOME; "OBONG EKPE 'FIONG KONKO". FIONG is OFFIONG = MOON IYENE SE SI ORU (IYENE SE SI ODU) = THERE'S NOTHING THERE (Ain't nothing there). The word ORU, as mentioned here, is not a corruption of URUAN as incorrectly stated elsewhere by DR. IVOR MILLER. OBONG EKPE is KING of EKPE. Or, are they saying ABAN EKPE? ABAN EKPE is an EKPE DIVINER. "IDEM EKA" = MOTHER'S BODY. IDEM = BODY. EKA = MOTHER. "EYEN EKA" = MY BROTHER or MY SISTER. IREME (IDEME) = WAKE UP EKAMA means to HOLD. If they say, EKA MMA ---i.e. TWO WORDS, that means BIG MOTHER. EKA means MOTHER. EKA could also mean BIG. MMA means MOTHER. EKA MMA, in this case means BIG MOTHER. EKAMA is just one word meaning HOLD. "EDEME, EDEME. EBONG-O IBOM O!" This means: "Wake up, wake up and let us praise, exalt or chant to IBOM. This song has nothing whatsoever to do with the YORUBA LANGUAGE or its rich culture. Rather, the song extols the virtues of IBIBIO EKPE and ABAKUA traditions. IBIONO IBOM is the origin of ABAKUA. SONG BY ENYENISON ENKAMA: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJS9dodjmLJjh9E