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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…
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…
Ogume is one of the old communities of Ukwuani (Ndokwa) in what is now Delta State. Its story is part of the larger story of the Igbo-speaking peoples west of the Niger, especially the Ukwuani towns that grew up along the river and the lands behind it. Origins and Settlement No single migration made Ogume.…
Igbodo is an Ika-Igbo community in present-day Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State. It is traditionally made up of six principal villages: Anikpekwu, Anieyime, Ilabor, Ndobu, Idumu-Obior and Idumu-Ozei. Its history is unusual because the community itself remembers being formed by people coming together from different ancestral settlements. The well-known saying “Igbodo…
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…
Akumazi is an Ika-Igbo-speaking community in present-day Delta State, and its history reflects the many movements and meetings of peoples in the western Niger region. Its traditions give more than one account of where it came from, so the oral histories are best handled with care and not squeezed into a single ancestral story. Akumazi-Umuocha…
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…
Oko and Okwe are old communities in the western Niger region of present-day Delta State, within the wider Enuani-Igbo cultural area. Their histories grew up along the Niger and its side waters, where farming, fishing, hunting and river trade kept communities on both banks in steady contact. The two are neighbours, but each has its…
Idumuje is an old Enuani-Igbo clan in what is now Delta State. It is made up mainly of two autonomous towns, Idumuje-Unor and Idumuje-Ugboko. The clan took shape in the western Niger Igbo world, where generations of migration, settlement, marriage and political joining brought different ancestral groups together. That is why Idumuje’s history cannot be…
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,…
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