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Agueke
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 that mention Agueke
No published record in this archive names Agueke in its own words.
Read as: Agueke. 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 Agueke
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| State | Anambra |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | section |
Its towns are Ekwulobia, Oko and Mkpologwu.
Forde & Jones record no origin tradition or relationship for the group. Its area, with the neighbouring groups to 26, is counted as the Isuofia area, reached later by the title system of the western uplands.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-31, Table I, notes and geographical survey
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