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Amai is an Ukwuani-speaking community in Ndokwa land, Delta State, set in the hinterland of the Niger Delta. Obiaruku lies to the north, Ezhiokpor to the east, Aragba, Orogun and Umuebu to the west, and Ogume and Ezhionu to the south. It is one of the historic Ukwuani communities, whose language, customs and social institutions…
The history of Abbi, in present-day Delta State, is kept in traditions of migration, settlement, kinship and the slow absorption of different families into one community. The founding story centres on Amacha, said to have come from Achalla-Ukwu, east of the Niger, and to have eventually settled in the area now called Abbi. According to…
Aboh belongs to the history of the Igbo of the western Niger. No single migration made it. It grew out of several Igbo-speaking groups moving, settling and slowly merging along the river. At the heart of the story is a meeting between the Ika Igbo, especially people from Agbor, and older riverine Igbo communities already…
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