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Umu-Iguedo

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.

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What the archive holds for Umu-Iguedo

RegionAnambra
StateAnambra
DivisionNorthern Igbo
Ethnic groupIgbo
Recorded asclan
Also known asUmuiguedo, Umuigwedo
Part ofUmu-Eri (clan)

The four communities descended from Iguedo, daughter of Eri, who is remembered as their mother: Ogbunike, Awkuzu, Umuleri and Nando, with Ogboli in Onitsha. The survey prints the group as Umuigwedo and its towns as Ogburike, Umuleru and Nnando; those spellings are the survey's, and the names above are the ones the towns use.

Its towns are Ogbunike, Umuleri and Nando; the older spellings Ogburike, Umuleru, Nnando and Awkuzu are also recorded.

Afigbo records the same group, spelt Umuiguedo, as the communities descended from Nri's only daughter — Awkuzu, Umuleri, Nando and Ogbunike — which he calls the tertiary segments of the Umueri fraternity, alongside the Umunri, the segments descended from Nri himself.

The tradition makes Ogbunike the first son, Awkuzu the second and Umuleri the third, with Nando the last born, where Iguedo is said to have lived and to be buried.

Sources

Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 30-31, Table I and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, pp. 36-37

Towns

The 5 towns recorded inside Umu-Iguedo

  • Awkuzu
  • Nando
  • Ogboli
  • Ogbunike
  • Umuleri

Names

Names borne in Umu-Iguedo

No names recorded

A name is attached to a place by its documented origin, and no published name in the register names Umu-Iguedo yet. This is the state of the name material rather than a statement about the names people bear.

Archive records

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