Ozikoroconfederation of clans in the archive
Owelli
Recorded in Enugu. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Histories about Owelli
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Histories that mention Owelli
No published record in this archive names Owelli in its own words.
Read as: Owelli, Ntebe-Nese. 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 Owelli
| Region | Enugu |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | confederation of clans |
Its towns are this entry with the Ntebe-Nese group, which it says is made up of four sections and the local communities called Ogugu, Abogugu, Ihe and Owelli, with Ituku, Isu, Oma Owelli, Obeeko, Ugbo, Obeagu and Obodo among the rest.
The fifth section of the same group, the Akunano group, is entered separately under Akegbe-Ozalla (No. 33). Owelli therefore stands at the head of a cluster of communities spelled Ntebe-Nese here and Ntebe-Nesi in later references to Akunano.
The group lies in the southern section of the eastern uplands, an area of small and isolated communities with little outside contact and no title system.
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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