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The Efik aboriginals who are recorded to have migrated from Palestine (Israel), following the Roman conquest in 63 B.C. and the resulting revolts against the conquest in the first and the second centuries A.D., drifted through Egypt. The Efik people felt disenchanted by the harsh treatment of the Israelites by the Egyptians of the time and moved out to establish on their own. From Nubia, the movement reached ancient Ethiopia which at some point in time became a world power. The birth, death, and resurrection of Christ ushered in a new world view and religion called Christianity and the Ethiopians and Egyptians both went that way. At a point in time another religion, Islam was born out of Arabia, a religion which sought to take things by force. It swept through Egypt and conquered it, with lots of death on its toll. When the Ethiopians (the Falashas) heard of the intention of the Muslims to invade Ethiopia, majority of their ancestors pulled out and thus begun the famous migratio