clan in the archive
Ibere
Recorded in Abia. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Ibere
The archive links no published history to Ibere 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 Ibere
No published record in this archive names Ibere in its own words.
Read as: Ibere. 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 Ibere
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| State | Abia |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The group has eleven local communities.
Its leading community is Mbinyang, a name that is an Ibibio word. Ibere is classed with Bende and Obero among the original Enyong Ibibio communities absorbed by Igbo incomers from the west.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, p. 43, Table V and notes
Archive records
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