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Title: | Biase communities of South Eastern Nigeria: melting pot of cultures |
Author: | Ubi, Otu A. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Nigeria Magazine |
Volume: | 55 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 66-71 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | regional government state government |
Abstract: | In 1981 the government of the Cross River State of Nigeria created Biase Local Government Authority out of Akamkpa Local Government Area. The new Authority was made up of five clans: Umon, Egup Ipa, Erei, Ehom and Ubaghara. In constituting these clans into a Local Government Authority, the Cross River State government was fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the heterogeneous peoples who constitute Biase. In addition, the act concretized and formalized administratively a historical process whose beginning dates back to about the first decade of the nineteenth century. This paper examines the developments which led to the emergence of Biase ethnicity and the historical forces at play which sustain the concept. Notes, ref. |