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Anaang — Description
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West Africa in 1050 CE by upvoteanthology

West Africa in 1100 CE by upvoteanthology

Disclaimer: As with previous this will be done in the Hetalia format to inform people of the history of the tribe.

In 7500BCE Anaang left the land of Egypt to find better opportunities with many smaller tribes following behind her. In 7000 BCE she initially settled in Ghana, being given refuge by the Akan tribe. She then moved to Cameroun in 6500 BCE before finally moving into the lower regions of what would become Nigeria and met the initial inhabitant, a tribe named Ibibio. the two shared their tools and technology as they slowly began to each develop their own unique skills in various areas but for millennia the two tribes would have peace with each other. With the union of Ibibio and Anaang there would be many smaller sub-tribes that would be produced in the coming millennia that would strike out on their own but whilst other tribes were starting to move in to what would become Nigeria around 5000BCE it was on different regions and far away from where Ibibio and Anaang resided.

That changed in 4500BCE with the arrival of a tribe named Umuleri-Igbo. Umuleri began a peaceful relation as well with Ibibio and Anaang with no record of conflict between the three and even produced sub tribes of his own with Anaang like Ibibio did. One of those tribes was Akpa-Ibom-Isi. Over the millenia their children sprang up into various smaller tribes like Biase, Eket and so on and as Umuleri-Igbo passed away the smaller tribes began to take up their places.

Upon the death of Umuleri-Igbo around 800CE, Ibibio, Anaang and the other newer tribes erected a shrine in the Arochukwu region called the Long Juju of Arochukwu which all the various tribes used as a sort of judge, the guilty would have to go into the cave where the shrine was and stay with the Juju and disappear.

As an accord of this, Anaang developed personal taboos depending on the region where she resided. Certain foods in certain regions she would refuse to eat which served as a marker for the region and some of the smaller tribes adopted this attitude like the Afaha (no squirrel) and Ekpenyong (albino python) amongst many others. Anaang's major personal taboo being yams. Which sometimes put her at odds when trading with Nri-Igbo in the early years, as Nri-Igbo was a huge trader in yams in her early years.

Relations with Efik soured and this became present when the Europeans arrived, Efik painted Anaang as a cannibal in order to keep trade away from Anaang and Ibibio. The Europeans were genuinely afraid of Anaang, thinking her to be a mad cannibal thanks to the words of her estranged son Efik. This would change when Christian missionaries would arrive in the region in the 19th century. Anaang's first official recognition of existence by the European world came in 1854. On a foraging trip Efik captured her and sold her into slavery to Portugal. The ship was followed by a British warship which freed Anaang and all the captured slaves and she was recorded then returned to her home nation. As thanks she began trading with England in Palm oil.

This angered Opobo and his King named Jubo Jubogha (also known as King Jaja) as his agreement with Aro-Igbo ensured that he had the monopoly on Palm Oil. Thus he declared war on Anaang with Aro-Igbo at his side for backup whilst Ibibio came to the aid of the Anaang whilst this was all recorded by the British. The war was called the Ikot Udo Obong Wars and they were a bloody conflict, even after Aro-Igbo exited the war to focus on his own interests Opobo continued to decimate Anaang and Ibibio. England then stepped in on the side of Anaang and beat Opobo, captured King Jaja and sent him into exile whilst setting up bases in Opobo's territory to help, "police" the region which Anaang and Ibibio noticed as England placing his marker for colonialism.

Under England's rule in 1904 Anaang secretly provided support to Aro-Igbo and Ekumeku-Igbo though England was never able to prove it. England then banned her practice of hunting wild game for food. Anaang and her Okot warriors (her elite fighting force) did not like this idea one bit and continued to do so which England stated was an example of "the Barbarism of Africans". After fighting in the Second World War for England, unlike the other tribes that took a page from Gandhi after meeting him she stirred up violent uprisings. In response England declared her a cannibal (blaming her for the rash of leopard attacks because civilized people could not be attacked by wild animals). In 1945 England grabbed her and her sub-tribe Ikot who had been helping her and slaughtered many of the civilians that were just passing by. By 1948 England captured 77 and executed 99 Anaang tribe members that were helping Anaang in her attempts to resist England.

England put further pressure by banning Anaang's religion and forcibly tried to force her to convert to Christianity, held at gun point. Anaang took the shots and still refused to convert, as part of her culture involved being able to take blows from weapons as she regularly tested the sharpness of Machetes, spears and bows on herself.

In 1966 she supported Nri-Igbo's decisions which angered Fulani-Fula who added her to the genocide of the Igbo people in 1967. The Anaang population dropped significantly as Fulani-Fula pushed her and her troops into a region where the only food available was her taboo food, yams. Her conviction was so strong that she kept starving for most of the war, only able to eat when Nri-Igbo managed to bring her something, and the same occured for many of her fellow tribes that practiced the same taboos. When Ngas called for reform after the end of the Nigerian civil war reparations were not given to her which broke her economically.

Nri-Igbo called for Anaang to recieve a percentage of the oil money but Ngas would not hear of it. So Nri-Igbo would subtly try to support her, but it was not and Anaang to this day continues to protest her situation to the Nigerian government though it falls on deaf ears even after the government became democratic in 1999.