Ukawe

It has the same brief entry as Ugulangu, the two being clans recorded as having broken away from Ezza, the largest group of the section. As with Ugulangu, it is a village group although it is also treated as a clan, and its own subdivisions and towns are not recorded.

Its settlement pattern, like that of the other communities entered as village groups in this section, is described as similar to that of village groups in the Eastern Plains rather than the hamlet pattern of the section's five large groups. Otherwise Forde & Jones add nothing specific for Ukawe: a growing population and too little land are reported for the area as a whole, with expansion possible only northward, into drier country, where settlers from Ezza have taken up pepper and groundnuts.

Afigbo names Ukawe with Okposi, Ikwo and Ezza among the peoples the British, based at Afikpo and Obubra Hill, were trying to reach an understanding with before the Ezza turned their emissaries away.

Where it is: Ebonyi State, Onicha local government area. The Onicha local government area names Ukawu among its communities; Ukawe is the earlier spelling of it.