Ozikoroclan in the archive
Anike
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 about Anike
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Histories that mention Anike
No published record in this archive names Anike in its own words.
Read as: Anike. 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 Anike
| Region | Enugu |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Enwen, also called Mgbidi, Ezere, Awgunta, Nkwo, Ugwueme and Lengwenta. The last two are reported to have come from Isuochi (No. 22).
The group is a parent of several smaller ones: Awgu (No. 21) is described as a village group of small size that came out of Awgunta, Lengwe (No. 37) as derived from Lengwenta, and Mbowo (No. 38) as derived from Enwen, also spelled Mbidi. Isuochi, for its part, claims Lengwenta and Ugwueme as related to it.
Anike is counted among the small and isolated communities of the southern section of the eastern uplands, where contact with the outside was slight and titles carried little importance. Forde & Jones record no origin tradition for the group itself.
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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