Igbo · Town · Riverine Igbo
Ashaka
Recorded in Delta. A register entry gathers the towns the sources list, the names borne there and the records the archive holds, instead of opening only one article.
The record
What the archive holds for Ashaka
| Region | Delta |
|---|---|
| State | Delta |
| Local government | Ndokwa East |
| Division | Riverine Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | town |
Ashaka is a town of Ndokwa East in Delta State, on the Kwale–Ashaka road in the Niger basin.
Ashaka is a town in Ndokwa East local government area of Delta State, in the Niger Delta basin near Igbuku and Uchie, on the road that runs from Kwale to it. Its postal code is 322124, and its climate is tropical monsoon.
The traditions of the lower Niger place it on the way down: in the account kept for Aboh, Ashaka is one of the places the founders of Aboh passed through before they reached the river town.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 49-51, Table IX and notes.
Towns
The 1 town recorded inside Ashaka
- Ashaka
Names
Names borne in Ashaka
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Ashaka yet. This is the state of the name material rather than a statement about the names people bear.
Archive records
Photographs, oral testimony and documents connected to Ashaka appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Ashaka · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Ashaka · the migrated subject label of the same name
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