Kalabari · Nigeria
The lifeways of the Kalabari people.
Rivers State, Nigeria · Documenting now
An Ijaw people of the mangrove creeks and tidal channels of the eastern Niger Delta. Each of these sections is being written slowly, with the community. The outline is here — the articles are arriving.
- OverviewWho the Kalabari are, and where.
- HistoryFrom the early settlements to today.
- TraditionsCeremony, kinship, the calendar of life.
- Oral traditionsProverbs, songs, story, voice.
- Material cultureCloth, canoe, kitchen, ornament.
The language
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