Ozikoroclan in the archive
Umuchieze
Recorded in Imo. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
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Read as: Umuchieze. 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 Umuchieze
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| State | Imo |
| Division | Northern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Its towns are Lokpauku, Lokpanta, Lekwesu and Leru.
The group is counted both among the small isolated communities of the southern section of the eastern uplands and among those of the Nkanu plains in the south, which were peopled westward from the eastern uplands.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 28-30 and 33-36, Table II and notes
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