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Mbanasa
Recorded in Anambra. 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 Mbanasa
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | section |
Its towns are Isuofia, Ezenifite, Uga and Aguluezechuku, then Ogboji, Oneh and Ikenga.
Forde & Jones record Aguluezechuku and Ogboji elsewhere as related to Agulu. The group's area is the Isuofia area, one of those the Ọzọ title system of the western uplands reached as it moved south.
Afigbo gives Mbanasa as a name of the counting kind rather than a descent name, meaning the seven towns.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-31, Table I, notes and geographical survey; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, p. 36
Towns
The 7 towns recorded inside Mbanasa
- Aguluezechuku
- Ezenifite
- Ikenga
- Isuofia
- Ogboji
- Oneh
- Uga
Names
Names borne in Mbanasa
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Mbanasa yet. This is the state of the name material rather than a statement about the names people bear.
Archive records
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