clan in the archive
Umuhu
Recorded in Imo. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Umuhu
The archive links no published history to Umuhu 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 Umuhu
These are published records whose own words name Umuhu. A mention is not a history of Umuhu, which is why they are listed here rather than with the histories about it.
Read as: Umuhu. 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 Umuhu
| Region | Imo |
|---|---|
| State | Imo |
| Division | Southern Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
Umuhu stands among the four entries grouped together as Ngor, with Obike, Emerienwe and Okpala.
Its towns are Ngor and Umuhu, together with four further small village groups, as its constituents. Beyond that grouping Forde & Jones record no origin tradition for Umuhu.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 41-42, Table IV and notes
Archive records
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