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The Ibibio - Rhythm and Dialects
The Ibibio (in excess of 5million population) have lived in the Akwa-Ibom/Cross River area of modern day Nigeria for several hundred years, and while written information about them only exists in colonial records from the late 1800s on, oral traditions have them in the region much earlier than this. Anthropologically they speak dialects of Efik-Ibibio, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family.
They comprise the following major divisions: Southern (Oron), Delta (Ibeno, Ikot-Abasi, Eket), Annang-Western (Ikot-Ekpene, Ukanafun), and Eastern and Central (Uyo, Ikono). Right up till the Second World War era all these ethnic groups regarded themselves and were seen as one.
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