Ozikoroclan in the archive
Ofemili
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 that mention Ofemili
No published record in this archive names Ofemili in its own words.
Read as: Ofemili. 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 Ofemili
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| State | Anambra |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Ugbene, Ugbenu and Awba.
In the Northern Igbo, yam growing for export is practicable in only a few places, where good land and thin population coincide, and Ofemili is one of them, with Ikem, Ehamufu and Nike. The group lies in the Anambra valley.
Afigbo cites the name as an instance of the purely geographical titles that federations of formerly separate villages adopted, giving its full form as Ndi Ofemili, those who live on the far side of the river.
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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