The Annang/Ibibio Ufok Ndok (Secret Societies): Governance and Social Control
When we talk about the history of governance in Africa, our minds often run to chiefs, kings, councils of elders, or colonial administrators. But in many communities, real power and order were enforced not by men sitting on carved stools, but by societies that operated from behind the veil of secrecy. Among the Annang and … Read more
