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Read the register entry for Amai · the register places it in Delta
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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…
Ezionum is one of the nine communities inside Ukwuani Local Government Area in Delta State, Nigeria. This place is special among the Ukwuani people who are a subgroup of the larger Igbo tribe and it has many histories and cultures that connects it to Niger Delta. Before Colonialism came to Nigeria, Ezionum had a…
Ezhionum community like most Anioma towns turned out to be part of the representation of defiance to colonial oppression from the British government. The people of Ezhionum aggressively stopped the British from appointing warrant chiefs and establishing native courts. The forceful revolt started when James Davidson, deputy district commissioner of Kwale, who…
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