Bende

Before the war, Cross River Igbos would have been referred to as Bende people and not Imo people.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

Before the war, Cross River Igbos would have been referred to as Bende people and not Imo people.

Abidemi Sanusi on Tour 2006

Before the war, Cross River Igbos would have been referred to as Bende people and not Imo people.

Review 2006

Immersing himself in folk music, Yates developed a unique trumpet approach drawing on Celtic and other traditional folk inflections as well as jazz, and this warmly evocative album is a journey through those influences in the company of Romanian acoustic guitarist Zsolt Bende and percussionist Cormac Byrne.

Neil Yates: Five Countries – review 2011

A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon.

Neil Yates: Five Countries – review 2011

When in February she heard that the Roman Catholics were intending to settle at Bende her heart was heavy.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Bende, he said, was not the place it was supposed to be; the population numbered from two to four thousand; it was not likely to become a trading centre; whilst the overland transport was a disadvantage.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

The journey was by launch to Itu, by steel canoe up the Enyong Creek, thence by foot or hammock to Arochuku and Bende.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

She wrote to Dr. Adam, a Government friend in Bende, a soldier of the

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Iye, was a slave from Bende, light in colour and handsome, and was the property of one of the big women, who treated her with kindness and consideration.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone