Ozikoroclan in the archive
Agbaja (Owerri)
Recorded in Imo. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Agbaja (Owerri)
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Histories that mention Agbaja (Owerri)
No published record in this archive names Agbaja (Owerri) in its own words.
Read as: Agbaja (Owerri). Counted where the name is written with a capital, because a lower-case occurrence of a name that is also an ordinary word is the word.
The record
What the archive holds for Agbaja (Owerri)
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
It stands at the head of the table's Eastern or Abaja-Ehime part.
It is placed in part B, Eastern or Abaja-Ehime, the name of which it shares.
Its six named members are Nguru, Inyiogugu and Isuobiangwu, with Umuhu, Lagwo and Ibeku, although Forde & Jones record seven local communities for the clan. The first two of them, Nguru and Inyiogugu, are said to dispute seniority.
The name Abaja recurs elsewhere: a village group of Isu-Ofe-Iyi within Isu-Orlu (No. 1) and a clan of Osu. Forde & Jones report no origin tradition for this clan.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 39-40, Table III and notes
Archive records
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