Ozikoroclan in the archive
Olokoro
Recorded in Abia. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Olokoro
Named in other records
Histories that mention Olokoro
These are published records whose own words name Olokoro. A mention is not a history of Olokoro, which is why they are listed here rather than with the histories about it. Records already listed above are not repeated.
Read as: Olokoro. 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 Olokoro
| Region | Abia |
|---|---|
| State | Abia |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
The source says it keeps no migration tradition of its own but that of the Ibibio villages it joined.
It is subdivided into three parts, named Umutogho, Epe and Azuiyi, the last of these associated with Umuahia.
Olokoro is one of the local groups Its towns are as having no migration tradition of its own. What it preserves is the tradition of the Ibibio communities with which it merged; those communities hold the senior, parent position among the local community's villages, and in some cases their Ibibio names survive.
Afigbo names Olokoro, with Ibeku and Ikwerre, on the slave route from Uzuakoli to New Calabar after the Aro expedition, and records that the force sent against Ibeku and Olokoro was then turned on Uzuakoli.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 43-44, Table V and notes; Afigbo (1981), Ropes of Sand: Studies in Igbo History and Culture, pp. 258-261
Archive records
Photographs, oral testimony and documents connected to this community would appear here with provenance.
Add knowledge
Corrections to a community record are reviewed before they are published, and a published record is never silently replaced. The review trail stays visible.