Masquarades of Itam People Itam is found mostly in Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom state, Itam was visited by the early Europeans; a base of pioneering late Mary Slessor, a Scottish missionary, who established the first leper colony in the West Africa and built a general hospital in the area before she died in 1915. Itam is located in the southeast of Nigeria Itam covers and share the same boundary with Ibiono, Uruan, Ini, Ikono, Ibom and Uyo local government area. Itam a clan in Itu Local Government Area has three lineage groups of villages namely Afaha, Ekit Itam and Ibiaku villages . Ibiaku Itam has 26 villages, Ekit Itam has 14 villages and Afaha has 7 villages. Itu have five clans: which are Itam Itu Ayadehe, Okuiboku, Mbiabo with 79 villages are recognized in Itu. It has a population of 82,719 according to 1991 population census. The greatest asset in Itu is its fertile land, which produces rich soil that favors cultivation and growing variety of food and tree crop
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