Ekori is a community in

Yakurr Yakurr is a Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. Its capital is the town of Ugep. The local government area (LGA) was carved out of Obubra local government in 1987. Yakurr has an area of 670 km and a population of 196,4 ...

, Nigeria.

Language and culture

The native language is Lokaa. English is the official language; other languages spoken in Ekori include pidgin English, which most West African people understand. Leboku is the New Yam festival or harvest thanksgiving often celebrated in Ekori during the month of September. Another fascinating cultural event in Ekori is popularly known as KEPU (wrestling), practised when celebrating men and women who have attained a certain age bracket. According to Daryll Forde, 1964 (Yako Studies) this community is the second largest in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The people of Ekori living outside the community also contribute through Ekori Progressive Elements League (EPEL), and through age-grade associations known as (Ekoh). EPEL members are primarily women, most of whom live in Calabar, Lagos, and Abuja. The age grades, on the other hand, are composed of individuals of the same age or younger or older by at most two years....

Religion

The people of Ekori are mainly

Christian A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the wo ...

with about 2% of the population identifying with traditional religions. More than half of the population are subsistence farmers; they plant mainly

cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes. Although ...

, maize, Yam and vegetables. Eighty percent of the cassava is processed into

garri In West Africa, ''garri'' (also known as ''gari'', ''galli'', or ''gali'') is the flour of the fresh starchy cassava root. In the Hausa language, ''garri'' can also refer to the flour of guinea corn, maize, rice, yam, plantain and mille ...

. They also have civil servants and Entrepreneurs. Commercial farmers mainly owners of small-holding oil palm estates can be found in the community.

Communities

Communities of note in Ekori include; Three (3) major Ward: (1). Ajere,(2).Ntan and (3). Epenti, other few of the many communities are Lekpankom, Benini Ekori Epepe, Aferekpe, Epenti Beach, Ajere Beach, and Ntinton.

References

Populated places in Cross River State {{CrossRiverNG-geo-stub