HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR BROTHER – STEVEN
We shall feed on the grace of your silence,
And the gentle strings that create warmth,
We shall move mountains, armed with the shields of love
For great things are possible even through the fears of a storm.
We shall sing through this moment of unknown melodies,
For what we have before our every eyes …
Is a chance to celebrate
A choice to liberate
the will to educate
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE- LOTS OF LOVE ALWAYS
Your seeds have painted the riddle of time,
with a warm dance and a spell of white roses,
Your silence was enough to reassure the flock of many new souls
We have enjoyed dance,
and the new lessons, embracing in the wind
for kind music is selfless
Its rays will live forever
REST IN PEACE MA
Tony Tokunbo Fernandez
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Eunice Johnson nicknamed Southpaw (for being a lefty), is a vibrant Broadcaster with remarkable experience in the Media Business. She has worked as a Television Presenter with Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, where she anchored series of programmes such as Insight, The Caregiver, Agro Techno, Career Choice, Telecom Today, a programme powered by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and a host of others.
She has also occupied leadership positions in this field which includes being the Head of Programmes at Television Nigerian (TVN), where she was a Newscaster and T.V Host after which she became Head of the News Department. Her varied career feats also include a stint as a Presenter with Daar Communications’ A.I.T/RAYPOWER, Aso Radio etc. Having freelanced for different News Magazines at different levels, you can conveniently say she has mastered the media trade at different levels.
Clearly, the Media Business is not the only thing that tickles her fancy as she delved into Public Relations which she equally practised at different levels from managerial to consultancy. As a Chatered Public Relations Officer and Member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), she went on to practice PR after obtaining different Professional Certificates in the field at some point in her professional career and thereafter, cutting her professional teeth by consulting for a few firms. She became the National Public Relations Officer (P.R.O) of an N.G.O of Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (UN) for a reasonable span of years before finding her way back into the Broadcast scene, particularly as a TV Presenter with the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA. She is also a member of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Aside also handling a good number of major Projects for different Organisations, she is a professional Events’ Comperè and she has comperèd at different corporate events both locally and internationally some of which include: an Award Ceremony and Side Event held in the United Nations Headquarters, New York City during the United Nations General Assembly. Another, is the Day Of The African Child event which had various African Ambassadors in attendance, Political Conventions, an F.R.S.C Summit where she represented a Veteran Broadcaster and many more.
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Before i go into the nitty gritties of this piece, i would briefly like to defend the use of 1474 as a starting date. It is believed that this was the year the Efik came in contact with the Portuguese who were ruled by King Afonso V.
The date is based on dates and events obtained from Halley’s comet and orally transmitted by the Efik Bard Adiaha Atiñ Anwa in 1910.[1]The earliest clothing worn by the Efik people was the raffia (Ikpaya). Ikpaya was a woven raffia attire comprising of a skirtlike wrapper and tunic. Several other Efik attires were fashioned out of tree bark such as Ofriyo (Mahogany tree).
With the inception of the Efik-Portuguese liasons and the triangular trade, several fabrics were imported into old Calabar. Unfortunately, many of these are very rare to find and a majority have gone extinct. I will go through a few that i’m familiar with and the few i’ve read about.Itu Ita: Oral tradition holds that this was the earliest fabric imported into Old Calabar by the Portuguese (Oboriki).
This material came in with the first masted ships that arrived Old Calabar in the late fifteenth century (a period still debated by foreign academics). The masts of the ship resembled the manatee known in Efik as Itu. Hence the name Itu Ita literally translates to three manatees.Nkisi:
This material was brought by the English. Nkisi is a corruption of Nkrisi which is the Efik translation of the word “English”. It was most likely the first fabric brought by the English as subsequent materials from Britain were given other names.Brutanya: A corruption of Brittania, this material was brought by the English. However, it had such little value that it was often used in adjectives to signify something worthless.Ekpañ: A cotton cloth woven in narrow strips and imported from Arochukwu and other parts of the Igbo interior. It was sometimes known as Ekpañ Inokon.
The women of Old Calabar were fond of several peculiar delights from the Igbo interior and would often wear clothing imported from the Igbo interior. Other igbo fashion imports included Mbọmọ (A type of cloth) and Ntuñ (Igbo brass anklets).
The latter went out of fashion by the first half of the 19th century.Other fabrics imported into Old Calabar during the period of 1474 and the 1850s would include, Ntañnsiọñ, Ukpo, Isadọhọ, Okosiri and Asantañ inim.Clothes and fabrics could be named after the people who first brought them such as Ukpọñ Asibọñ, named after a certain Asibọñ; Akaekpenyọñ, named after a certain Ekpenyong; Smit, named after a certain Captain Smith. Clothes could also be named after nations or nearby communities such as Nkisi, Ndam Okobo, Iban Obutọñ. Goldie’s dictionary reveals a minimum of 25 different fabrics that could be found at Old Calabar as at 1862.
Anklets of various kinds were also common in Old Calabar. Women wore a variety of anklets such as Ewọk – a heavy and uncomfortable brass anklets worn between the knee and ankle; Mme – Ivory Anklets which were particularly common among wealthy and influential women; Okpoho nyaña nyaña – worn by women during the fattening ceremony; Ndañ – Anklets used specially for a bride at her marriage ceremony. Necklaces of various kinds were popular among the female class such as Obukpe ñkwa, Ntọi ñkwa, Isanda, Mkpọrikpọ etc.
According to Captain Hugh Crow (1830),”The women of Calabar are, however, very grand in their own way on holidays, when they wear dresses of variegated colours, and have their hair tightly made up in the form of a cone, a foot or two above their crowns—a fashion which gives them a remarkable and somewhat dignified appearance.” [2]With the arrival of the missionaries in 1846, more foreign attire would be introduced to Efik women.
The Onyonyo (Victorian dress) would come with a lot of variants known by various names.
References
Recommended readingDictionary of the Efik language in two parts – Hugh Goldie (1862)A learner’s dictionary of the Efik Language – E. U. Aye (1991)Image Caption: A Three masted sailing shipImage source: Valejo Gallery
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FATHER
The dawn has been eager to embrace this day,
Its heart has bee waiting, before the motions of the sunrise.
Its palms are filled with fresh daffodils
Kissing the moments of a new celebration .
For what we have is this very moment,
Dressed in all pillars of gratitude,
What we share is a season filled with LOVE,
coloured with all shades of music
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD- WISHING YOU A BIRTHDAY FILLED WITH HAPPINESS AND MANY MORE YEARS OF LONG LIFE AND INNER PEACE
LOTS OF LOVE
TONY
TONY TOKUNBO ETEKA FERNANDEZ 