Ozikoroclan in the archive
Ekpeya
Recorded in Rivers. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Ekpeya
The archive links no published history to Ekpeya yet. Its neighbours’ histories are not shown here, because a link to another community is not a history of this one.
Named in other records
Histories that mention Ekpeya
These are published records whose own words name Ekpeya. A mention is not a history of Ekpeya, which is why they are listed here rather than with the histories about it.
Read as: Ekpeya, Ekpaffia. 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 Ekpeya
| Region | Rivers |
|---|---|
| Division | Riverine Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
It is a clan with a dialect and customs of its own, made up of four constituent clans (Akoli, Ube, Orupata and Igbuduya) and of seventy-two villages and small settlements, Ahoada among them.
The men of Ekpeya do no farming. They live instead on palm oil, hunting and fishing, and leave the cultivation to the women, apart from clearing the bush. In the other Riverain Igbo groups the men are farmers as well as fishermen.
The group is noted as well for a style of wrestling of its own, in which leg holds are not allowed.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 50-51, Table IX, notes and Distinctive Features
Archive records
Photographs, oral testimony and documents connected to this community would appear here with provenance.
The archive holds no photographs, recordings or documents filed to Ekpeya yet, so this section is empty rather than filled with something else.
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