Ozikoroclan in the archive
Obero
Recorded in Abia. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Obero
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Histories that mention Obero
No published record in this archive names Obero in its own words.
Read as: Obero. 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 Obero
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The source says it remembers no migration tradition of its own.
Nine local communities are reported for it, while eighteen local communities besides Mbiokpong are counted.
Mbiokpong, the leading community, is given as an Ibibio word and as derived from Mbinyang. Among the communities making up the group are two Aro villages and one derived from Idima Abam, an Eastern Igbo group.
With Bende and Ibere, Obero is classed among the original Enyong Ibibio communities absorbed by Igbo incomers from the west. It is also named, with Olokoro and Isuorgu, among the local groups that remember no migration tradition of their own.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 43-44, Table V and notes
Archive records
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