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Full-front print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistory\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEsien Efik Duopeba — \"the twelve Efik clans\" — is the constitutional memory of the Efik nation: the seven original clans of the migration from Uruan joined by five recognized alongside them, together forming the body that stands behind the throne of the Obong of Calabar. Through these twelve houses ran the government of Old Calabar — Ekpe law, the ship trade, treaty-making with Europe from the 17th century onward — and from them came kings like Eyamba V and Eyo Honesty II whose names anchored the coast's diplomacy. 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Fourteen clans in a ring around the Mgbe rosette, each under its Ntoe: Big Qua, Akim, Nkonib, Ikpai-Omin, Ikpai-Ohum, Ediba, Nyanghasang, Eta-Nkpinghi, Bakoko, Okpan, Akim-Akim, Kasuk, Ifiang and Idundu. Keepers of Mgbe and Nsibidi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavy shirt carries ivory and fern-green ink; white shirt carries navy. Full-front print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistory\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Qua nation is the Calabar branch of the great Ejagham people whose forest country runs from the Cross River into Cameroon. Each of their fourteen clans stands under its own Ntoe, and the Ntoes together under the Ndidem, in a federation held by Mgbe — the leopard institution that carried law, rank and judgment through the whole region and gave the Efik their Ekpe. 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Eight clans around the crossing canoe from Usak Edet: Abua, Abua Creek Town, Abua Isu-Ekom, Ibonda, Ekondo, Ifako, Ukem and Mkpara. Under the Muri Munene. Seafarers, hunters, craftsmen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavy shirt carries ivory and sea-blue ink; white shirt carries navy. Full-front print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistory\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Efut nation traces its crossing from Usak Edet in the Rio del Rey country of Cameroon, Balondo seafarers who took to open water and made Calabar their landfall generations before the Atlantic trade. Their eight clans kept the sea crafts — canoe-building, deep fishing, hunting the mangrove country — and their settlement claim at Calabar ranks among the oldest on the estuary. 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