Ozikoroclan in the archive
Ugwuochi
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 about Ugwuochi
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Histories that mention Ugwuochi
No published record in this archive names Ugwuochi in its own words.
Read as: Ugwuochi. 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 Ugwuochi
| Region | Anambra |
|---|---|
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Amichi, Ulubi, Ekwulu and Azu Igbo.
Forde & Jones record Azu Igbo as having split off from Igbo, a community of Agugu Agu. Ugwuochi is one of four groups in the Nnewi district, an area settled from the western uplands by large village groups.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28 and 31, Table I, notes and geographical survey
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