Efik Traders of Old Calabar Containing the Diary of Antera Duke Together With an Ethnographic Sketch and Notes and an Essay on the Political Organization of Old Calabar - African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century

Daryll Forde (editor)

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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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Book information

ISBN:	9781138586383
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	22 Aug 2018
DEWEY:	966.944
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	178
Weight:	406g
Height:	165mm
Width:	243mm
Spine width:	12mm