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Agbor Kingdom

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The Igbo Origins and Development of the Aboh Kingdom

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…

Place Aboh

The Rise of Agbor: Origins and History of an Ika Kingdom

Few towns matter as much to Ika history as Agbor. In A History of Ika, Egwubutor Iduwe traces it from an old indigenous settlement, held together by ancestral worship, to a political power whose reach eventually covered a large stretch of what is now Delta State. His account rests mainly on Agbor’s own oral traditions,…

Place Agbor