Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction: The Man-Leopard Murder Mysteries
- 2 Of Leopards and Leaders: Annang Society to 1909
- 3 Resistance and Revival, 1910–1929
- 4 Progressives and Power, 1930–1938
- 5 War and Public, 1939–1945
- 6 Inlaws and Outlaws, 1946
- 7 Divinations and Delegations, 1947
- 8 The Politics of ‘Improvement’, 1947–1960
- 9 Echoes of Ekpe Owo
- Notes
- References
- Index
3 - Resistance and Revival, 1910–1929
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction: The Man-Leopard Murder Mysteries
- 2 Of Leopards and Leaders: Annang Society to 1909
- 3 Resistance and Revival, 1910–1929
- 4 Progressives and Power, 1930–1938
- 5 War and Public, 1939–1945
- 6 Inlaws and Outlaws, 1946
- 7 Divinations and Delegations, 1947
- 8 The Politics of ‘Improvement’, 1947–1960
- 9 Echoes of Ekpe Owo
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Whether by coincidence or by design the arrival of Europeans at the mouth of the Qua Iboe river was met with the same rites as were used annually to purge Ibibio villages of malevolent spirits and diseases. During the night, women swept the ground in front of their houses, roofs were beaten and torches carried around the village. This chapter examines the ways in which Ibibio and Annang made sense of colonialism and Christianity. It traces their cultural engagements with European rule and religion during the period that led up to the most significant watershed of the colonial period, the Women's War of 1929. It concerns the ways in which uneven relations of power, between men and women, educated and illiterate, titled and non-titled, were negotiated within shifting terrains of social, religious and political contest.
THE LANDSCAPE OF POWER
Territory on the south-western side of the Qua Iboe river joined the newly formed Abak District of Ikot Ekpene Division late in 1910 after being ceded from Aba and Opobo Districts. Repeated disturbances in this part of the District resulted in further troop deployments, and additional police were stationed at Ikot Ekpene until 1912. During this period the process of dismantling the apparatus of the slave trade continued, and in 1910 the compounds of slave-dealing chiefs in south-western Annang were burned, including those of Akpan ‘Uko’ Udo Ndok, the village head of Ikot Akpa Nkuk, and Inokon Uyo Ubong of Ikot Udo Obobo.
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- The Man-Leopard MurdersHistory and Society in Colonial Nigeria, pp. 82 - 129Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007