clan in the archive
Aboyikata
Recorded in Enugu. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories that mention Aboyikata
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Read as: Aboyikata. 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 Aboyikata
| Region | Enugu |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Inyi and Awlaw. The group is counted in the northern section of the eastern uplands.
Forde & Jones record no origin tradition, migration story or relationship with a neighbouring group for Aboyikata. The northern uplands is the only wider context Forde & Jones give for it, and they name no clans or further settlements within the group.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-30 and 33-36, Table II and notes
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