ABSTRACT

The Ibibio are found to the south and south-east of the Ibo in South-eastern Nigeria-mainly Calabar Province, save for the Itu Mbuzo sub-tribe in Bende Division, Owerri Province and certain villages of Obong (Anang) and of the Ika (Eastern Ibibio) which have attached themselves to the Ndokki (Ibo) of Owerri Province and now form one of its sub-divisions. A few fishing villages (a few thousand people in all) from the Riverain group now form a small tribe (Isangele) in the Kumba Division of the Cameroons.