Efik Traders of Old Calabar: Containing the Diary of Antera Duke together with an Ethnographic Sketch and Notes and an Essay on the Political ... Old Calabar (African Ethnographic Studies O)

Efik Traders of Old Calabar: Containing the Diary of Antera Duke together with an Ethnographic Sketch and Notes and an Essay on the Political ... Old Calabar (African Ethnographic Studies O)

by Daryll Forde (Editor), Daryll Forde (Editor)

Synopsis

Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, the rituals of the Egbo society and many details of domestic life of among the Efik. This volume includes an English translation to the diary which was originally written in Pidgin. .

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 182
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 13 Jul 2018

ISBN 10: 1138586382
ISBN 13: 9781138586383

Author Bio
Daryll Fforde from 1945 he worked at University College London, and built a school of American-style cultural anthropology there. From 1935 he worked in Nigeria with the Yako people. From 1945 to 1973 he was the director of the International African Institute