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Interview with Etubom Bassey Ekpo Bassey, now the new Obong of Calabar,
2/25/08 A progressive journalist, he favors exchanges with the Cuban Abakuá.
Angel Guerrero:
Abakuá from Pogolotti, 2/08 Etubom Bassey Ekpe Bassey on Ekpe and Cuban Culture, English and Español, Calabar, Nigeria, 8/06 See a new Efik site: www.eburutu.org Etubom Asuquo Etim: Maskmaker, musician, 12/05
The Investiture of Lady Elizabeth
Ayo Eremie into the Ekoretonko Lodge, Calabar, Nigeria, 9/05
International Ekpe Festival Efiks of Cuba Write Obong of Calabar: We're coming home, Weekend Chronicle, Nigeria, 2/05
Cuban Abakuá Participate in the Ekpe Festival, Nigerian Census: Igbo group protests exclusion of religion, ethnicity, 5/29/05 Roman Díaz y Omi Odara |
AbakuáAbakuá members derive their culture from the Efik and Efo of the Cross River Delta in Nigeria. They are organized in a set of over 130 potencias located mainly in Havana, Matanzas, and Cardenas. The Abakuá societies have a male-only membership, their equivalent in the Cross River Delta are called lodges in English, they are fraternities. There is an Efo cultural manifestation organized along family lines, the Brikamo, carried by the Calle family in Matanzas. In 2001, the Efik National Association in the US began to have contact with Cuban Abakuá. There is evidence of prior contacts between the Abakuá and the Efik in Cuba, but the contact has not until now been sustained. Among such evidence is a plaque hanging on the walls of a potencia in Havana given by an Obong, a traditional leader of the Efiks. The Abakuá gave us the rumba, one of Cuba's principal musical traditions. The Calle family, for example, is of Efo origin and is said to have invented the guaguanco, a type of rumba.
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El íreme Abakuá / Bárbara Balbuena Gutiérrez. Ciudad de La
Habana :
Editorial Pueblo y Educación, c1996.
Ecorie Abakuá : cuatro ensayos sobre los ñáñigos cubanos / Tato Quiñones.
[La Habana] : Ediciones Unión, 1994.
Abakuá : una secta secreta / selección de textos Adriana Pérez Pérez,
Norma García Cabrera. Ciudad Habana, Cuba : Publicigraf, 1993.
Afro-Cuban religious experience : cultural reflections in narrative /
Eugenio Matibag. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.
Como suena un tambor abakuá / Arturo Lino, Neira Betancourt. Ciudad de La
Habana: Editorial Pueblo y Educación, c1991.
AfroCuba : an anthology of Cuban writing on race, politics and culture /
edited by Pedro Perez Sarduy and Jean Stubbs. Center for Cuban Studies.
Melbourne, Vic. : Ocean Press ; London : Latin American Bureau ; New York,
NY, USA : Distributed in the USA by the Talman Co., 1993.
The Afro-Hispanic Abakuá : a study of linguistic pidginization / by
Raphael A. Núñez-Cedeño, Roberto Nodal, [and] Rolando A. Alúm. Milwaukee :
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1982.
La Sociedad Abakuá y su poesía / Julio A. León and René León ; preface by
Antoine Oubari. Charlotte, N.C. : [s.n.], 1975.
The Abakuá language in Cuba : a glossary / compiled by Roberto Nodal.
[Milwaukee] : Dept. of Afro-American Studies, University of
Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1976.
Linguistic folklore in the latin caribbean : a selected glossary of the
Abakuá language in Cuba / by Roberto Nodal, Rolando A. Alum, Rafael
Núñez. [Milwaukee]: Department of Afro-American Studies, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1977.
On Abakuá rhythms
www.cse.ogi.edu/Drum/groove/abakua.html
Album des photos prises en parallèle au film "Jour des Rois, jour Abakua" le 6 janvier 2008 (jour des Rois) par Daniel Chatelain et José Antonio Betancourt. picasaweb.google.com/ritmacuba/JourAbakua - plenty good photos here!
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