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The Anioma people encompass and are native to the nine northeastern Local Government Areas of Delta State and the Ika-Igbo communities of Edo State. Politically, the Anioma occupy the Delta North Senatorial District where they are the majority group. Today, the population of the Anioma is estimated today to be at approximately 1.8 million.
During the war, Anioma people and other Igbo peoples who remained in Benin City faced what can be described as genocide. [32] Before the federal army arrived in Benin City, the Urhobo and Isoko people attacked their Anioma and Ika neighbors. [32] Law enforcement did not help the people who were being hunted. [32]
The Ekumeku Movement is unique in Anioma history and Igbo history in general for two reasons. First, the length of time the movement endured, comprising Military campaigns over a period of thirty-one years. Secondly, it is an outstanding example in the Anioma Civilization of an attempt to unite previously disunited states to resist the colonial ...
Don Cukwudumebi Ohadike, born in Jos, Nigeria in 1941 to Igbo parents of Anioma extraction, Don was one of the foremost scholars of Igbo history. Ohadike's work emphasized the importance of his inherited culture, which he demonstrated in part through his continued and passionate interest in rescuing oppressed voices of African peasants and other silenced groups.
Ethnic group: Igbo, Anioma, Igede, Igala, Idoma, Ijaw, Kalabari, Ibibio, and Ogoni. Proposed state: Republic of Biafra (defunct) Separatist movements: The Indigenous People of Biafra, Biafra Zionist Movement, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra; Militant organization: Eastern Security Network
The Ika people are found primarily in Delta State Nigeria & Edo State, they are a ethnic group The Ika people have two(2) Local Governments (Ika South and Ika North East Local Government Areas) in Delta State, and are also indigenous to Igbanke, Ekpon and other communities of Orhionmwon, Uhunmwonde and Igueben Local Government Areas in Edo State.
He bore several sobriquets throughout his life time but was predominantly known in the mid-1990s as Eddy Nawgu, alternatively spelt as Eddie Nawgu among Igbo people. [5] An alternative form of this name, Eddy na Nawgu , which translates to Eddy in Nawgu , came about because he was from the Nawgu community, a town situated in the Dunukofia LGA ...
Igbo is a tonal language, and there are hundreds of different Igbo dialects and Igboid languages, such as the Ikwerre and Ekpeye languages. [28] In 1939, Dr. Ida C. Ward led a research expedition on Igbo dialects which could possibly be used as a basis of a standard Igbo dialect, also known as Central Igbo.