Igbo · Clan · Southern Igbo
Etche
Recorded in 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 Etche
| Region | Rivers |
|---|---|
| State | Rivers |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
It divides into the regional groups Ogugu, Mba (Umuaturu) and Egwi, and its people are among the better yam farmers of the north.
The clan is divided into three regional groups: Ogugu, Mba (Umuaturu) and Egwi. Forde & Jones record no separate origin tradition for Etche.
The Etche and Oratta groups, which lie to the north of the Ikwerri, are better yam farmers than the Ikwerri though less wealthy than them. Yam production is said to be comparatively small in the area because of the heavy rainfall.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 41-42, Table IV and notes
Towns
The 3 towns recorded inside Etche
- Egwi
- Mba
- Ogugu
Names
Names borne in Etche
- Akwaugo · The egg of an eagle; an eagle's egg
- Chiletam · My God should look after me.
- Enyinna · His father's friend
- Ezeji · Lord of yam
- Iheanacho · What everyone desires; precious / what everyone seeks
- Ikpeazu · The final one; 1. Secret judgment. 2. The last
- Iroanya · The eyes of an enemy
- Jamuike · Spur me on/encourage me; spur me on OR INSPIRE me OR encourage me
- Ndụkakụ · Life is better than wealth; life matters more than wealth
- Nwagbara · A child from the agbara goddess (agbara is the goddess of fertility)
- Nwaji · A child holds wealth. In other words, one's child inherits his wealth
- Nwanyịbụakụ · A girl is wealth
- Nwaogu · Child of battle
- Ogonna · A father's favour; favour from God
- Onyemauche · Who knows the mind?
- Ozuluonye · Who has no problem?; who has it all?
Archive records
Photographs, oral testimony and documents connected to Etche appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Etche · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Etche · the migrated subject label of the same name
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