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Umunede is an ancient Igbo kingdom of the Ika, one of the Igbo subgroups of western Igboland, west of the Niger. It sits in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State. Umunede is counted among the major Ika-Igbo towns, alongside Agbor, Owa, Ute-Okpu, Ute-Ogbeje, Igbodo, Mbiri, Akumazi and Otolokpo, and it has long been…
Owa is one of the historic kingdoms of the Ika people of Delta State. Its centre is Owa-Oyibu, in present-day Ika North-East Local Government Area. The kingdom belongs to the wider Ika cultural and linguistic region of western Igbo country, and historical and ethnographic sources place the Ika area within that western Igbo zone. Owa’s…
The cultural identity of the Anioma people the Western Igbo of present-day Delta State is inextricably woven into the threads of a pristine, white hand-loomed textile known as Akwa Ọcha. Literally translating to “white cloth,” Akwa Ọcha is more than mere attire; it is a “social parchment” that records the purity, status, and communal belonging…
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