Igbo · Clan · Southern Igbo
Osu
Recorded in 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 Osu
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The source treats it and Ehime (No. 5) as a single clan.
It is placed in the peripheral part D and called transitional between the Western and the Eastern Isu. Its country lies in the northern belt of dense settlement held by the Isu, Osu and Abaja-Ehime.
Its towns are Umuduru, Umunumu and Nzerem, then Obiohuru, Mbeke and Angana, with a number of smaller village groups besides.
Ehime (No. 5) and Osu are treated as one clan, in which Umueze is the senior village group and Onicha (Dim Neze) the second. Osu's clans are Umueze, Umuezeala, Abaja, Umukabia and Umunakanu. Forde & Jones record no separate origin tradition for Osu.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 39-40, Table III and notes
Towns
The 11 towns recorded inside Osu
- Agbaja
- Angana
- Mbeke
- Nzerem
- Obiohuru
- Umuduru
- Umueze
- Umuezeala
- Umukabia
- Umunakanu
- Umunumu
Names
Names borne in Osu
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Osu 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 Osu appear here with their provenance.
- The knowledge-graph record for Osu · the archive’s own entry, with the histories linked to it
- Records filed under Osu · the migrated subject label of the same name
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