How Idembia, Ancestral Headquarter Of Ezza, Fell In 1906

During that burning, an important sacred box from Okpoku shrine was taken. That box is today in British Museum store in London. It was registered in 1907. British Museum has not displayed it since.

What many don't know is that it was not only British that recorded it. Germans who were in Mamfe, Cameroon border that time also recorded it as Ezza uprising.

French Holy Ghost Fathers in Afikpo also recorded that Idembia was destroyed and Ezza people scattered. Even American missionaries in Unwana recorded refugees coming from Ezza after the war.

So the fall of Idembia in 1906 was known internationally at that time.

Our people who ran left Idembia and founded other settlements. That is why till today Idembia remains important in Ezza memory.

I am currently in Sao Paulo, Brazil gathering documents about this event to write a petition for our heritage.

If you are from Idembia, know that your town was once the capital of Ezza kingdom before 1906.

Ezaa!