Ekpo Eyo

Ekpo Okpo Eyo (an haife shi a ranar 8 ga Yulin shekarar 1931 - ya mutu a ranar 28 ga Mayun shekarar 2011) masanin Najeriya ne wanda aka fi sani da aikinsa a kan ilimin kimiyyar Najeriya. Ya yi aiki a fannin ilimin kimiyyar tarihi, ilimin ɗan adam, da tarihin fasaha, kuma ya kasance mai aiki sosai a cikin shekaru da yawa yana jagorantar hukumomin tarayya da na ƙasa na kayan tarihi da gidajen tarihi a Najeriya. An bayyana shi a matsayin 'doyen da kuma ma'aikata a al'adun Najeriya'  da kuma 'babban ginshiƙi [...] na gidajen tarihi na Najeriya'. 

 Tarihin rayuwa 
Ya samo asali ne daga Jihar Cross River kuma bayan ya koma Jihar Legas, Eyo ya sadu da Surveyor of Antiquities a Najeriya, Kenneth Murray, wanda ya ƙarfafa shi ya bi karatu a ƙasashen waje: Eyo ya yi karatun ilimin kimiyyar tarihi da ilimin ɗan adam a Jami'ar Cambridge (BA) da ilimin kimiyyyar tarihi a Jami'an London (MA). Bayan ya koma Najeriya, ya sami digiri na biyu a Jami'ar Ibadan . Daga Shekarar 1968 zuwa Shekarar 1979, Eyo ya kasance darektan Ma'aikatar Tarihi ta Tarayya, kuma daga baya, har zuwa Shekarar 1986, darektan janar na sabuwar Hukumar Kula da Gidajen Tarihi da Tarihi ta Kasa. A cikin waɗannan mukamai, ya kula da juyin halitta na ayyukan archaeological a Najeriya, wanda ya haifar da cikakken sake kimanta al'adun prehistoric kamar Nok, Owo, ko Ife.Daga nan sai ya koma Jami'ar Maryland, College Park, inda ya kasance farfesa a fannin zane-zane da ilimin kimiyyar Afirka.

A farkon shekara ta 1980s, Eyo ta shirya baje kolin ƙasa da ƙasa kan Dukiya na Tsohon Najeriya', Landan ya nuna a karon farko kayan tarihi masu yawa na ilimin kimiyyar Najeriya ga masu sauraro na Amurka da Turai, wanda aka nuna a Detroit, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Calgary, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, da London.   Ya kasance Shugaban kungiyar PanAfrican Archaeological Association daga shekara ta 1983 zuwa Shekarar 1995.

 Daraja 

 1980 Fellow na Majalisar Gidajen Tarihi ta Duniya (ICOM) 
 1980 Jami'in Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) , tsari na cancanta na Tarayyar Najeriya 
 2004 Kyautar Jagorancin ACASA na Majalisar Fasaha ta Ƙungiyar Nazarin Afirka 

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 2011
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1931