Igbo · Clan · Southern Igbo
Ihite
Recorded in Imo (Anambra, Imo). 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 Ihite
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| State | Anambra, Imo |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Ihite and Umuhu (C. No. 1) were once two divisions of a single clan, until Umuhu crossed the Imo. The group now consists of Ihite-Aminyi and five smaller village groups, and it holds that the founder of the two divisions came from Umueze (No. 5).
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 39-40, Table III and notes
Towns
The 1 town recorded inside Ihite
- Ihite-Aminyi
Names
Names borne in Ihite
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Ihite 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 Ihite appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Ihite · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Ihite · the migrated subject label of the same name
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