What is "mbakara"

Mbakara is a word in the Annang/Efik and Ibibio language used for those in the western world. (Waddell, 1891) Rather than be seen as a normative category, it is rather the description of a relationship between Africans in the west African coast of Calabar and their caucasian counterparts from the west that they traded with. The name, Mbakara, has been interpreted by various writers as a shortened form of the phrase Mbaka nkara in Annang, and Ibibio meaning divide and rule. Among these groups as elsewhere, westerners came to be identified with colonialism.