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Mbanano
Recorded in Anambra. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Mbanano
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Histories that mention Mbanano
No published record in this archive names Mbanano in its own words.
Read as: Mbanano. 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 Mbanano
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| State | Anambra |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | section |
Its towns are Abakete, Umuoji, Nkpor and Uke.
Forde & Jones record no origin tradition or link with a neighbouring group for Mbanano. It lies with the other groups of the Onitsha lowlands, ground settled early by expansion westward from the uplands toward the Niger.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-31, Table I, notes and geographical survey
Archive records
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