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Kalabari. This settlement (town) was abandoned as the people moved to other fishing settlements. Portuguese settlers continued to maintain the name Calabari which became surrounded by the Efik people of
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tribes, but all of them are respected and they must be honored in the ceremony. For instance, the marriage cannot be complete until the ceremony of BIBIFE (buying the mouth) is being done.
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Kalabari people have one of the cheapest forms of legal marriage in the south-south region of
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There are a variety of traditional dishes (or native food) of the
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