Igbo · Clan · Southern Igbo
Olokoro
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 Olokoro
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| State | Abia |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The source says it keeps no migration tradition of its own but that of the Ibibio villages it joined.
It is subdivided into three parts, named Umutogho, Epe and Azuiyi, the last of these associated with Umuahia.
Olokoro is one of the local groups Its towns are as having no migration tradition of its own. What it preserves is the tradition of the Ibibio communities with which it merged; those communities hold the senior, parent position among the local community's villages, and in some cases their Ibibio names survive.
Afigbo names Olokoro, with Ibeku and Ikwerre, on the slave route from Uzuakoli to New Calabar after the Aro expedition, and records that the force sent against Ibeku and Olokoro was then turned on Uzuakoli.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 43-44, Table V and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, pp. 258-261
Towns
The 3 towns recorded inside Olokoro
- Azuiyi
- Epe
- Umutogho
Names
Names borne in Olokoro
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Olokoro 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 Olokoro appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Olokoro · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Olokoro · the migrated subject label of the same name
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