Ozikoroclan in the archive
Mbanese
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 Mbanese
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Histories that mention Mbanese
No published record in this archive names Mbanese in its own words.
Read as: Mbanese. 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 Mbanese
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Okpuno, Mbakwu, Isu, Urum and Amanuke.
Amanuke, one of the five, is among the communities said to have shared in a single early clan headed by Nri, alongside Umueri and the Nsugbe, Nadi and Umuanya group. Otherwise Forde & Jones record no origin tradition, and the group lies in the Anambra valley.
Afigbo notes that federations with no single founding ancestor often took a name counting their member towns, and gives Mbanese as the five towns.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-31, Table I, notes and geographical survey; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, p. 36
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