Preamble This paper is presented in the souvenir program of “Ogbo Ekpe Amuvi”. The Ogbo Ekpe celebration, organized by the Arochukwu people, stands as a profound testament to the preservation and advancement of African Traditional Religion, a spiritual foundation that has quietly nurtured many of the world’s major religions though its story often remains untold....

Dr. Ivor Miller (Boston University, USA) The Ékpè ‘leopard’ society represents a centuries-old institution that provided the supreme functions of governance in communities of the Cross River region of Nigeria and Cameroon, before the colonial intervention. Possession of this graded initiation society with representative body-masks confirmed the autonomy of a principality. Ékpè had four major...

By Comrade Oji Ujah Oji  ooji@fpno.edu.ng ojiujahoji01@gmail.com Social Sciences Department          Federal Polytechnic Nekede,Owerri  Imo State, Nigeria. Abstract  This study examines the dynamic role of the Ekpe Society in the transformation of Arochukwu’s religious and cultural landscape through a process of Christo-cultural renaissance. Rooted in sacred tradition, the Ekipe Institution historically functioned as the moral, judicial,...

By Nnamdi Anyaogu Okorie, Esq* In his article titled ‘From Integration to Bifurcation: The Internalization of Calabar Boundary Regime in the Context of Border Conflicts and Management in Africa’, Michael Omang Bonchuk (2015), held that one of the dominant themes in the history of the Cross-River region of Nigeria and Cameroun is the secret societies....

I recall I had a number of invitations to contribute articles on issues pertaining to the history and people of Arochukwu Kingdom. On those many occasions I did not decline out of the necessity of time or duty of care but was rather riddled with a phenomenal feeling of insufficiency to rise to such top...