Ozikoroclan in the archive
Agbaja
Recorded in Anambra. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Agbaja
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Histories that mention Agbaja
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Read as: Agbaja, Nnewi. 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
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Nnewi, Orifite and Ichi.
The Nnewi district was colonised from the western uplands by large village groups that had gained a reputation for warfare in the past. Agbaja is the first of the four groups, the neighbouring groups, assigned to that district.
Men from the village groups around Nri and Awka, extending to Nnewi and other villages of the district, went abroad mainly as doctors, craftsmen and market traders, and migration on a small scale went from the south of the Nnewi district to the Cameroons plantations.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-31, Table I, notes, geographical survey and Distinctive Features
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