Aindrea Emelife Instagram – During this research trip to Nigeria, I’ve revelled in learning about the Bakor Monoliths with the help of Ferdinand Saumarez-Smith & Otto Lowe from the Factum Foundation team.
These objects were once naturally shaped in riverbeds, and afterward embellished with human intervention, decorated with carvings of facial features and markings, which distinguishes each monolith as an ancestral clan leader.
Taking their name from a group of linguistically and ethnically related communities (‘clans’) in an area of approximately 350 square miles in the Middle Cross River region in which they are exclusively found, the word ‘Bakor’ translating as ‘come and take’, a name that was chosen as a collective title because the phrase is identical in the languages of each of the original eight clans that make up the Bakor people.
@factum_foundation | Posted on 16/Nov/2022 20:51:43
