Ozikoroclan in the archive
Ikem
Recorded in Enugu. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Ikem
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Histories that mention Ikem
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Read as: Ikem. 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 Ikem
| Region | Enugu |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The group is placed in the northern section of the eastern uplands.
The Ikem area, with Ehamufu, Ofemili and the Nike group, is one of the few where good land and a thin population made it worth growing yams for sale outside the district. Forde & Jones record no origin tradition for the group.
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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