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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…
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…
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…
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,…
Situated within the Ika region west of the River Niger, Delta state, Abavo people whose history have long been shrouded in conflicting narratives and limited historical documentation. Many colonial reports and local oral traditions have offered contradictory claims for decades. Some claimed to come from the ancient Benin Kingdom, others tracing the lineage of Abavo…
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