People / group
Efik
The Efik are a people of south-eastern Nigeria, living mainly around Calabar in Cross River State and speaking a language closely related to Ibibio. Settling on the Calabar River in the 17th century, they became middlemen in the Atlantic slave trade and later the palm-oil trade, governed through trading houses and the Ekpe society. Their language spread widely as a regional lingua franca and through missionary publications.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Efik. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/efik
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Efik’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/efik (Accessed: ).
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