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Igbo genealogy

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Abbi: A Settlement Built on Migration and Belonging

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…

Place Abbi

Anam: Origins of a Riverine Igbo Community

Anam is an old riverine Igbo community in present-day Anambra State. Its people came together through several waves of migration from different parts of the Igbo-speaking region and from neighbouring areas. The name is traditionally understood not as that of one founding ancestor but as a collective label for people who arrived from different places…

Place Anam