Ozikoroclan in the archive
Ibeku
Recorded in Abia. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Ibeku
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Histories that mention Ibeku
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Read as: Ibeku. 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 Ibeku
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| State | Abia |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Umuokpara, one of the three Ohuhu clans, traces its origin to Ibeku.
Its seven village groups are given as Ishieke, Ndume, Afarata, Afara, Osa, Emede and Amoforo.
Umuokpara, one of the three clans of the Ohuhu group, derives from Ibeku in the tradition recorded for that group, which makes Ibeku the parent of that clan.
Afigbo names Ibeku among the pottery centres of Igboland, and records that after 1902 the slave dealers at Uzuakoli sent their captives down by way of Olokoro, Ibeku and the Ikwerre country to New Calabar, which brought a British force under Major Heneker against Ibeku and Olokoro.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 42-43, Table V and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, pp. 140 and 258-261
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