Igbo · Clan · Southern Igbo
Ibeku
Recorded in Abia. 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 Ibeku
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| State | Abia |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Umuokpara, one of the three Ohuhu clans, traces its origin to Ibeku.
Its seven village groups are given as Ishieke, Ndume, Afarata, Afara, Osa, Emede and Amoforo.
Umuokpara, one of the three clans of the Ohuhu group, derives from Ibeku in the tradition recorded for that group, which makes Ibeku the parent of that clan.
Afigbo names Ibeku among the pottery centres of Igboland, and records that after 1902 the slave dealers at Uzuakoli sent their captives down by way of Olokoro, Ibeku and the Ikwerre country to New Calabar, which brought a British force under Major Heneker against Ibeku and Olokoro.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 42-43, Table V and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, pp. 140 and 258-261
Towns
The 7 towns recorded inside Ibeku
- Afara
- Afarata
- Amoforo
- Emede
- Ishieke
- Ndume
- Osa
Names
Names borne in Ibeku
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Ibeku yet. This is the state of the name material rather than a statement about the names people bear.
Archive records
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