Women of Esuk Mba community exchanging various food items at the weekly trade-by-barter market in Akpabuyo local government area of Cross River State.
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This practice, NAN learnt, has been upheld by members of the community and they do it on every market day since 1956. According to him, the market is also significant because it was also a point of activities during the period of the slave trade in Nigeria. “The market is close to the river side and our people here are predominantly fishermen. The community is not comfortable with the size of this market; there have been no expansion of the market since inception.
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