Ekwumekwu
At the close of the term of the Oka Training Class, Mr. G. E. Reeks, on April 25th [1906], went down the River Niger to begin work with the Rev. and Mrs. Craven Wilson at Kaiyama, in the Ijo country.
The same day the Rev. S. R. Smith and Mr. Bradshaw (of the Industrial Mission) left Onitsha for Owerri to choose a site for a temporary house to be occupied by Archdeacon Dennis, who is going there to study the dialect with a view to a one-version translation of the Scriptures into Ibo.
Mr. Reeks has been succeeded at Oka by Mr. E. Dennis, who has in consequence been removed from the work to which he is so much attached at Idumuje Ugboko, on the Asaba, i.e. the western, side of the Niger.
The Africans in the hinterland of Asaba are giving the Government trouble, and there has been some fighting, though on a comparatively small scale.
The outbreak commenced with the murda of Mr. Crewe Read, the Divisional Commissioner of the Agbor district. So far as we know, none of the African Christians have been molested.
Miss F. M. Dennis (now at home) is of opinion that the outbreak has been caused by the anti-foreign secret society, the Ekwumekwu, which caused considerable damage in January, 1904.
Yams, Igboland 1880-1939 © The Trustees of the British Museum
The Church Missionary Intelligencer
Published 1906
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