By Kelvin Ololo To mark this year’s International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the New Calabar LEO Club engaged not less than 60 students in an educational visit to the Calabar Slave History Museum, offering a powerful encounter with one of Africa’s darkest chapters. The visit, which involved
By Jeremiah Archibong Becheve is a clan of 16 communities in Cross River State, Nigeria. It hosts the famous Obudu Cattle Ranch and the Obudu Mountain Resort, two of the state’s biggest tourism centres. But inside Becheve is also a very terrible and harmful culture where parents and relatives give out girls as young as
Goree Island is located on the great western bulge of Africa, just 3km off the Senegalese coast. It is the nearest point on the African continent to the Americas. Historically, the Senegalese people called it Ber. The Portuguese renamed it, Ila De Palma. But the name was again changed to Good Reed by the Dutch
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Modern-day sex slavery takes on many forms. In the Keyi community of Cross River State, it is Okenegoro — a practice in which young girls, at birth…… as young as five years old, become “brides” to older men to repay debts. This horrid practice turns girls into de facto slaves stripped of