clan in the archive
Idodo
Recorded in Enugu. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Idodo
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Histories that mention Idodo
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Read as: Idodo. 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 Idodo
| Region | Enugu |
|---|---|
| State | Enugu |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Ogbaho, Amankanu, Oruku, Owo and Amechi. Amechi, the last of them, came off the Ntebe-Nese group's Akunano section.
The group lies on the northern Nkanu plains, an isolated and under-populated area colonized mainly out of the eastern uplands.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-30 and 33-36, Table II and notes
Archive records
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