The Last Fallback

Abasiama Eduok | #Atauyem

Independently Published · Uyo, Nigeria · 2025

ISBN: 978-978-68-2620-2

What Is This Book?

The Last Fallback is a mirror, not a manifesto — a 214-page return to the cosmological, spiritual, and intellectual traditions of indigenous African knowledge, with particular depth on the Akwa Ibom peoples of southeastern Nigeria. The "fallback" here isn't retreat; it's alignment — a return to ancestral ways of knowing carried through memory, land, language, symbol, and story.

The Journey: Nineteen Chapters

The book moves through a decolonial arc, from origin to future:

Cosmology — beginning with Abansinsi, the primordial Source in Akwa Ibom metaphysics, and the nature of creation, divinity, and the unseen.

Identity — how colonial language, naming, religion, calendar and education reshaped African self-understanding.

Spirit & Memory — Iman, Ukod, Ayeyin: frameworks that once bound community, ecology, and responsibility together.

Sacred Knowledge — Nsibidi and symbolic traditions long dismissed through colonial lenses.

Contested Traditions — institutions like polygamy examined honestly, as living structures rather than relics.

Technology & the Future — can ancestral intelligence survive, and transform, in the age of AI and digital identity?

Political Economy — inherited economic models and development paths across Africa and the Global South.

This Book Is For You If

You're questioning inherited religious or cultural frameworks. You study African philosophy or decolonial thought. You're drawn to African cosmology and spiritual tradition. You sense something essential was lost — and believe it can still be recovered.

Method

Eduok works across anthropology, African philosophy, political economy, physics, and theology, moving between scholarly inquiry and ancestral reflection to ask hard questions about identity, memory, power, and the future.

From the Prologue

"We were not always disoriented. We had maps once..."

(continued inside)

Yák isoñ adodukana! 🔥🌍

239 pages · Reflective Nonfiction · Spiritual & Cultural Inquiry · Decolonial Philosophy

Independently Published · Uyo, Nigeria

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