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[[Énéagwu:Pristome|Pristome]] ([[Úkọ̀lá énéagwu:Pristome|úkọ̀lá]]) 07:48, 24 ochu ekejo 2026 (WAT) 0pgpvlemqqlejaumzodf84n1lvpf8hc Mbakara 0 2683 44355 2026-08-23T13:34:03Z AgnesAbah 9 Created page with "{{Short description|Word for westerners in the Annang, Efik and Ibibio languages}} {{More citations needed| date=April 2011}} '''Mbakara''' is a word in the Annang, Efik and Ibibio languages used for those in the Western world<ref>{{Cite book |last=Waddell |first=Hope Masterton |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511711473 |title=Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa |date=2010-09-16 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01669-8}}</ref> (Waddell 1891)...." 44355 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Word for westerners in the Annang, Efik and Ibibio languages}} {{More citations needed| date=April 2011}} '''Mbakara''' is a word in the Annang, Efik and Ibibio languages used for those in the Western world<ref>{{Cite book |last=Waddell |first=Hope Masterton |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511711473 |title=Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa |date=2010-09-16 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01669-8}}</ref> (Waddell 1891). Rather than be seen as a normative category, it is the description of a relationship between Africans in the West African coast of Calabar and their European counterparts from the West with whom they traded. The name ''Mbakara'' has been interpreted by various writers as a shortened form of the phrase ''Mbaka nkara'' in [[Annang]] and [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]] meaning "divide and rule". Among those groups, as elsewhere, Westerners came to be identified with colonialism. ==History== Mbakara was the highest grade of Abon, a masquerade representing the spirit of the dead among the Efik of the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, and was introduced by Asibong Ekondo in about the 15th century. Individuals who were initiated in the cult could not take the title until they were deemed fully qualified and few could attain the position.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} Membership was not an issue since by law no European could be accosted by the Abon or Ekpe. Usage of the title soon passed into the popular discourse and carried the connotation of power, influence and authority. Slaves taken from the area took the name with them and addressed the white Europeans as Mbakara. In the Caribbean and part of the Deep South of the United States, where the slaves were sold, the name was anglicized and it became Bacra, Buckra and Buckaroo and referred to a white master, slave hunter or someone with authority. ===Doubtful accuracy=== As the description was given by the white British researcher Waddell during the height of European colonialism, his account is possibly racially prejudiced, if not inventive in nature. The alleged association of ''mbakara'' with a negative deity, such as Abon, the spirit of death, might be an insider's joke played on the unsuspecting European outsider as well. It goes without saying that the ''mbakara'' as a putative figure of authority has not been corroborated by later reports. {{White people terms}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *Waddell, Hope Masterson (1891) ''Twenty-nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa''. {Reprinted: London: Frank Cass; reprint of 1863 ed., London: T. Nelson.} [[Category:Culture of Nigeria]] [[Category:Ibibio mythology]] [[Category:Ethnonyms]] [[Category:Pejorative demonyms]] teyby4z3s5h49vk5tbew8bflttr462a 44356 44355 2026-08-23T13:46:35Z AgnesAbah 9 44356 wikitext text/x-wiki '''Mbakara''' chi ukọla ki abọ Annang, Efik kpai ichi Ibibio aka lugbọ abọ ki di ọji ẹwọ ami ẹnẹfu<ref>{{Cite book |last=Waddell |first=Hope Masterton |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511711473 |title=Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa |date=2010-09-16 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01669-8}}</ref> (Waddell 1891). Ọọy ku ma ki ọdu ''Mbakara'' alu ki abọ wẹwẹ ki ya kọ’ọtakada kọ chi ''Mbaka nkara'' ẹfewọ [[Annang]] kpai [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]]. Ọfẹ ñwu chi “kpẹ kpai e’gbọji. ==Inabali== Mbakara was the highest grade of Abon, a masquerade representing the spirit of the dead among the Efik of the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, and was introduced by Asibong Ekondo in about the 15th century. Individuals who were initiated in the cult could not take the title until they were deemed fully qualified and few could attain the position.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} Membership was not an issue since by law no European could be accosted by the Abon or Ekpe. Usage of the title soon passed into the popular discourse and carried the connotation of power, influence and authority. Slaves taken from the area took the name with them and addressed the white Europeans as Mbakara. In the Caribbean and part of the Deep South of the United States, where the slaves were sold, the name was anglicized and it became Bacra, Buckra and Buckaroo and referred to a white master, slave hunter or someone with authority. ===Doubtful accuracy=== As the description was given by the white British researcher Waddell during the height of European colonialism, his account is possibly racially prejudiced, if not inventive in nature. The alleged association of ''mbakara'' with a negative deity, such as Abon, the spirit of death, might be an insider's joke played on the unsuspecting European outsider as well. It goes without saying that the ''mbakara'' as a putative figure of authority has not been corroborated by later reports. {{White people terms}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *Waddell, Hope Masterson (1891) ''Twenty-nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa''. {Reprinted: London: Frank Cass; reprint of 1863 ed., London: T. Nelson.} [[Category:Culture of Nigeria]] [[Category:Ibibio mythology]] [[Category:Ethnonyms]] [[Category:Pejorative demonyms]] 2jw3ina3ooy8ufw1nc85ow2klacs84k 44358 44356 2026-08-24T06:23:15Z Pristome 1620 44358 wikitext text/x-wiki '''Mbakara''' chi ukọla ki abọ Annang, Efik kpai ichi Ibibio aka lugbọ abọ ki di ọji ẹwọ ami ẹnẹfu<ref>{{Cite book |last=Waddell |first=Hope Masterton |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511711473 |title=Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa |date=2010-09-16 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-01669-8}}</ref> (Waddell 1891). Ọọy ku ma ki ọdu ''Mbakara'' alu ki abọ wẹwẹ ki ya kọ’ọtakada kọ chi ''Mbaka nkara'' ẹfewọ [[Annang]] kpai [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]]. Ọfẹ ñwu chi “kpẹ kpai e’gbọji. ==Inabali== Mbakara was the highest grade of Abon, a masquerade representing the spirit of the dead among the Efik of the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, and was introduced by Asibong Ekondo in about the 15th century. Individuals who were initiated in the cult could not take the title until they were deemed fully qualified and few could attain the position.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} Membership was not an issue since by law no European could be accosted by the Abon or Ekpe. Usage of the title soon passed into the popular discourse and carried the connotation of power, influence and authority. Slaves taken from the area took the name with them and addressed the white Europeans as Mbakara. In the Caribbean and part of the Deep South of the United States, where the slaves were sold, the name was anglicized and it became Bacra, Buckra and Buckaroo and referred to a white master, slave hunter or someone with authority. ===Doubtful accuracy=== As the description was given by the white British researcher Waddell during the height of European colonialism, his account is possibly racially prejudiced, if not inventive in nature. The alleged association of ''mbakara'' with a negative deity, such as Abon, the spirit of death, might be an insider's joke played on the unsuspecting European outsider as well. It goes without saying that the ''mbakara'' as a putative figure of authority has not been corroborated by later reports. {{White people terms}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *Waddell, Hope Masterson (1891) ''Twenty-nine Years in the West Indies and Central Africa''. {Reprinted: London: Frank Cass; reprint of 1863 ed., London: T. Nelson.} [[Category:Culture of Nigeria]] [[Category:Ibibio mythology]] [[Category:Ethnonyms]] [[Category:Pejorative demonyms]] {{Delete|Not written in the project's language}} if7xmocookz4uiv2c0zq5obioe60zm9