The British ultimately prevailed through the Collective Punishment Ordinance, which allowed whole villages to be burned and crops destroyed, and through mass imprisonment of leaders. The last battles, at Akegbe and Nkwo market, ended in 1914. Some writers argue that Ekumeku influenced later anti-colonial movements elsewhere in Africa, though such claims remain tentative.
In Anioma the cultural memory persists in the phrase ozu akwagihi akwa: the restless souls of those who died unburied while resisting invasion.