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Aja

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Ute-Okpu: An Ika-Igbo Clan and Its Nri Roots

Ute-Okpu is one of the major clans of Ika land in Delta State, and Ika is an Igbo subgroup of western Igboland. Its history matters because the clan holds a strong tradition of eastern Igbo migration across the Niger, and both local oral history and older ethnographic records preserve it. The same records also note…

Place Ute Okpu

Spiritual Hygiene In Igbo Spirituality

Igbo people believe in the spiritual and physical sides of life. In their traditional religion, Odinani, they believe that everything that happens in the human world, Uwa Mmadu, comes from the spirit world, Alammuo. The concepts of pollution and purification are essential in Odinani since they affect both the spiritual and physical parts of life.…