Ozikoroclan in the archive
Ishielu
Recorded in Ebonyi. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Read as: Ishielu. 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 Ishielu
| Region | Ebonyi |
|---|---|
| State | Ebonyi |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Nkalagu, Nkalaha, Ezillo, Umuhale, Obeagu, Iyono and Amezu.
It is counted the isolated and thinly peopled groups of the northern Nkanu plains, settled mainly out of the eastern uplands.
Afigbo records Nkalagu as one of the two important slave fairs, with Ibagwa Nkwo, that came under the domination of the Nike-Aro axis in the nineteenth century, and notes that a major trade route then ran from Idah by way of Ibagwa and Nkalagu to the salt centre at Uburu.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-30 and 33-36, Table II and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, p. 109
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