clan in the archive
Ugiri
Recorded in Imo. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Ugiri
The archive links no published history to Ugiri 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 Ugiri
No published record in this archive names Ugiri in its own words.
Read as: Ugiri. 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 Ugiri
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
It belongs to the table's Western or Isu part.
Its towns are the village groups as Ugiri, Obollo and Ogbo, then Oka, Umuneke and Ibeme. Forde & Jones report no origin tradition for the group.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 39-40, Table III and notes
Archive records
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