THE FORESTS OF AFRICA From the Breaking of the Vessel to the Handover, Responsibility, Deliverance and the Mantle DA EFFIONG DANIEL AFRICAN HOLY LAND --- INTRODUCTION When I speak of “The Forests of Africa,” I am not referring to one forest alone. I am bringing together a series of distinct places, physical events, oral testimonies, personal experiences, dreams, and prophetic interpretations that, over the years, became connected in my understanding of God's dealings concerning Africa. The forest repeatedly appears throughout this testimony as a place of confrontation, transition, clearing, preservation, responsibility, handover, captivity, deliverance, and assignment. At Abanannang, the forest became associated with the breaking of an earthen vessel. At Ikot Ekon–Ikot Udu, the forest became a place of clearing and cultivation. Through the virgin girl and virgin soil, African soil became part of a prophetic testimony extending toward America. At Akai Itike, land and soil became ass...
EKA ABIAKPO AND THE CULTURAL CONTINUITY OF THE ABIAKPO PEOPLE FROM JERUSALEM TO ANNANGLAND: AN ORAL-HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND PROPHETIC INVESTIGATION DA EFFIONG DANIEL AFRICAN HOLY LAND ABSTRACT This article examines the tradition of Eka Abiakpo as the ancestral homeland of the Abiakpo people and investigates cultural continuities associated with Abiakpo identity within Annangland and southeastern Nigeria. The study forms part of the wider Abia Continuum , a research framework that brings Scripture, history, culture and prophecy into conversation in examining possible relationships between biblical Abia/Abijah and African Abia/Abiakpo traditions. Published material on Annang oral history records the tradition that Abiakpo came to the northern range of Annang from a place called Eka Abiakpo . This tradition is therefore an important subject for oral-historical investigation. Within the prophetic interpretation advanced by this research, Eka Abiakpo is identified with Jerusale...