Igbo · Town · Southern Igbo
Owerri
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 Owerri
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| State | Imo |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | town |
| Part of | Oratta (confederation of clans) |
The group is the town of Owerri together with four smaller village groups, which are not named. The Oratta entry in this file covers that group as a whole, of which this is one part.
Forde & Jones record no origin tradition for Owerri itself, and nothing further is said about how its four smaller village groups are composed.
The Oratta-Ikwerri groups as a whole are described as having abundant land, wealth drawn from palm kernels and oil, from food sold to the more crowded districts nearby, and from tolls on travellers, with farming done by both men and women.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 41-42, Table IV and notes
Towns
The 1 town recorded inside Owerri
- Owerri
Names
Names borne in Owerri
No names recorded
A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Owerri 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 Owerri appear here with their provenance.
- Records filed under Owerri · the migrated subject label of the same name
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