24 Dec 2025 Cultural Heritage Folklores Historical Studies House Systems and Trade Empires: How the “Efik House” (Ufok) Functioned as Both a Family Unit and a Corporate Trade Entity Map of Calabar. Photo credit; Wikipedia. The Efik of Old Calabar developed one of West Africa’s most sophisticated socio-economic institutions: the “House system,” known in Efik as Ufok. Far more than…
