Abasi Throws an Ax into a Latrine (Efik/Nigeria)
The Efik, who originally lived with other Ibibio groups at Idua, a town near the Oron area, migrated during the first half of the seventeenth century because of a quarrel concerning an ax borrowed from an Ibibio woman by an Efik woman named Abasi.
While chopping firewood, Abasi, a legendary woman, broke the ax and, instead of returning it to the owner, left it on the ground. When the Ibibio woman found the broken ax, she told Abasi to repair it. Instead, ...