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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…
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