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Utagba
Recorded in Delta. A place page gathers every related history, image, recording and document rather than opening only one article.
Connected writing
Histories about Utagba
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Histories that mention Utagba
These are published records whose own words name Utagba. A mention is not a history of Utagba, which is why they are listed here rather than with the histories about it.
Read as: Utagba. 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 Utagba
| Region | Delta |
|---|---|
| State | Delta |
| Division | Western Igbo |
| Ethnic group | Igbo |
| Recorded as | clan |
It divides into Utagba Uno and Utagba Ogbe, whose sections came from several neighbouring peoples.
It is divided into Utagba Uno and Utagba Ogbe.
Utagba Uno is made up of seven sections: four said to come from Onitsha and three from the Nsukwa area. Utagba Ogbe has five sections taken from Utagba Uno, and two more from Okpai and from Umuachi Afor.
Utagba is one of the groups the section names as representing the second arrival in the district, and its sections came from several neighbouring peoples.
Sources
Forde & Jones (1950), The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria, pp. 48-49, Table VIII, notes and Distinctive Features
Archive records
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