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Their colurful loin cloth and ubiquitos bowler hats tell the story of the age long marriage between the traditional African society and the 19th century Europeans. The Urhobo are well known as a family of people that have given the world more than its fair share of dandy men, elegant women and the much sought black gold, petroleum." Read on

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Eyo Festival: A play of the masquerades 

ADAMU Orisa was introduced to Lagos by Ejilu and Malaki brothers to Olugbani, the Olori to Oba Ado. Oba Ado was the first ruler of Lagos to have his seat of government at Iga Iduganran.

One source stated that Ejilu and Malaki first visited Lagos during the funeral of Oba Ado and as their contribution to the funeral, they brought their set of Adamu Orisas (that is, Adamu, Oniko and Ologeda) to take part in the funeral rites.
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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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