Ozikoroclan in the archive
Elele
Recorded in Rivers. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Elele
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Histories that mention Elele
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Read as: Elele. 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 Elele
| Region | Rivers |
|---|---|
| State | Rivers |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The Ikwerri share no sense of tribal unity.
Its constituents are Elele, Umudioga and Egbeda, together with eight smaller village groups or villages. The neighbouring groups are called Ikwerri collectively even though they feel no tribal solidarity and vary considerably from one another.
The Ikwerri area is described as having plenty of land and a good supply of labour coming in from the north. Yams are a comparatively small crop because of the rainfall, and farms are worked by men and women alike, the women growing cassava and cocoyams besides yams.
Afigbo records that political officers stationed at New Calabar attributed the resistance they met at Elele and its neighbourhood to the Aro, who in this period were urging local populations not to deal directly with the British and the coastal traders.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 41-42, Table IV and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, p. 250
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