Ozikoroclan in the archive
Obia
Recorded in Rivers. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Obia
The archive links no published history to Obia yet. Its neighbours’ histories are not shown here, because a link to another community is not a history of this one.
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Histories that mention Obia
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Read as: Obia. 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 Obia
| Region | Rivers |
|---|---|
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Obia is culturally distinct from the other Ikwerri groups and keeps a five-day week. Its constituents are Woji, Umuokoroshe, Diobu, which is the native town of Port Harcourt, and thirteen further villages.
Obia's distinct culture and its size set it apart inside a body of groups that has no shared feeling of unity. The Ikwerri area is rich in land, with wealth drawn mainly from palm kernels and palm oil, from food sold to denser neighbouring districts, and from tolls on travellers going south to trade, while yams remain a small crop because of the rainfall.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 41-42, Table IV and notes
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