Igbo · Clan · Riverine Igbo
Egbema
Recorded in Rivers (Imo, Rivers). 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 Egbema
| Region | Rivers |
|---|---|
| State | Imo, Rivers |
| Division | Riverine Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Forde & Jones give no number of local communities for it. Okwuzi is its chief part, with five other small village groups and ten smaller villages and settlements.
Egbema is one of the groups between the Orashi and Sombreiro rivers that once came under the overlordship of Aboh.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 50-51, Table IX, notes and Distinctive Features
Towns
The 1 town recorded inside Egbema
- Okwuzi
Names
Names borne in Egbema
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Egbema 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 Egbema appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Egbema · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Egbema · the migrated subject label of the same name
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