Culled from ChannelsTV
All over the world, differences exist between man
and woman only by their sexes, but in the Ubang community in Obudu Local
Government Area of Cross River State the dissimilarities have transcended
genital organs, as the men have different words for communication from their
women counterparts.
Call it the land of impossibilities both in tourism
and in all facets of life and you would not be far from the truth. To some, it
might be a mystery, to others a fairy tale, because you would not believe or
have imagined that a community in Nigeria, which prides itself as the only one
in the world have its people speaking two separate languages, the men speak
separately from the women.
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The beauty of it is that the man and the woman
understand each other without inviting an interpreter, but the law is, the man
must not be caught speaking the same language of a woman, vice-versa.
With no concrete documentation to how it evolved,
some of the residents in the Ubang community, who spoke with Channels Television,
appears to be proud of their ancestral heritage which according to them is as
old as the community itself and it is second to none in the world.
According to them, this tradition, which they cannot
challenge or change, forbids women from speaking the same language used by the
male counterparts, is like a law which the people must obey at all costs.
In other words, in a home, the husband must speak a
different language from the wife, while a man must find a way to communicate
with his daughter and vice versa.
The Village head of the community, Joseph Aleinyang
said in spite of the language dissimilarities amongst his kindred’s Ubang since
its inception has remained one of the most peaceful in the state, promoting
communal living and are also the food basket of the state in terms of cocoa and
other agricultural produce, but has remained in abject poverty due to its bad
road network to transport its produce for better sales to the outer
communities.
There is also a major challenge of employment among
its youths, lack of access to portable drinking water as the only source of
water supply to the entire community is a stream which requires long distance
to access most especially, during the dry season.
There is still more mysteries that lies in the
domain of the Ubang community which needs to be harnessed, one of the Ubang
Mountains called Okwe Asirikwe, a gigantic rock bearing a supernatural foot
print, which no one has been able to unravel the source, no human being living
or dead had the size of the foot print, which makes residents believe that it
was the foot print of God.
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