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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…
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…
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…
Aboh belongs to the history of the Igbo of the western Niger. No single migration made it. It grew out of several Igbo-speaking groups moving, settling and slowly merging along the river. At the heart of the story is a meeting between the Ika Igbo, especially people from Agbor, and older riverine Igbo communities already…
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