Ozikoroclan in the archive
Otanzu
Recorded in Imo. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Otanzu
The archive links no published history to Otanzu yet. Its neighbours’ histories are not shown here, because a link to another community is not a history of this one.
Named in other records
Histories that mention Otanzu
No published record in this archive names Otanzu in its own words.
Read as: Otanzu. 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 Otanzu
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Umulolo, Umunna and Okwe. Five further local communities are mentioned without being named.
Uturu (No. 27) is described as an offshoot of this clan, and the Aro section known as Ndizorgu holds many outlying settlements scattered over Otanchara and Otanzu country on land bought from them. The local communities of Otanzu and Otanchara are intermingled.
The group lies in the southern uplands, among communities of little outside contact and no title system, and in the broken country of the Imo river headwaters. Forde & Jones record no origin tradition for Otanzu itself.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-30 and 33-36, Table II and notes
Archive records
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