The power and energies of women, both creative and destructive (witchcraft), are central to Ebira masquerade performance ritual (eku), a male domain. The Ekuechi new year celebration is the major ...

Originally published in African languages and cultures (London) 3 (2) 1990, pages 181-202. The nature of the mask, the masker, or the masquerade is not as straightforward as one might first assume.

There is no better illustration of the small-mindedness of some Ebira people than in the treatment of minorities in their midst. In their myopia, whoever is perceived to be outside the dominant Ebira ...

Lagos — At about 1680 AD, when the Ebira people left their home base at Wukari, in the present day Taraba State, alongside the Idoma and Igala tribes, little did they know that they would end up in ...