Atigba:
The Origin of Arochukwu, Ohofia, Abam, Ututu etc. - by Prof. J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku.

Around 16 century, the southern part of Igboland was originately inhabited by Oru people before some Igbos in the Northern part migrated to join Oru due to population pressure and depletion of quality of farmland.
*Note the Oru people who were the aborigines of The land stem from Igodomigodo.*

In addition to southward migration, another group of migrants, the Mben - Owan group, migrated from Igodomigodo/Edo State eastward across the Niger River and passed through Oru moving further eastward until they came to a place they called Be Ndi (Bende) Igbo, meaning Igbo territory. Some of the names of these immigrants who migrated from Igodomigodo and populated Bende were; Alayi, Igbere, Nkalu Itu, Abam, Ohofia, Ututu and Arochukwu.

These Igodomigodo immigrants aggressively displaced the original Anang and ibibio inhabitants of the area and claimed their forest and lands. The case of of Abam, Ohofia and Ututu was particularly poignant because of the brutal way they went about forest and land acquisitions. They faughtand virtually wiped out or displaced the aborigines. Thus, whereas the Igbo to Oru migration and settlement pattern were marked by pacts of mutual coexistence with the aborigines of Oru, the Mben - Owan trail to Bende was marked with incidences of displacement and subjugation.

J. Akuma-Kalu is an Associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore Studies and Anthopology at Western Kentucky University.

Source: Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States: Lessons from Folkloristic.

*Nnadi Kanu is from Afara Ohofia and his ancestors are from Igodomigodo, present day Edo State. He should stop deceiving uneducated Igbos about Jewish ancestry.

Atigba:
The Origin of Arochukwu, Ohofia, Abam, Ututu etc. - by Prof. J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku.

Around 16 century, the southern part of Igboland was originately inhabited by Oru people before some Igbos in the Northern part migrated to join Oru due to population pressure and depletion of quality of farmland.
*Note the Oru people who were the aborigines of The land stem from Igodomigodo.*

In addition to southward migration, another group of migrants, the Mben - Owan group, migrated from Igodomigodo/Edo State eastward across the Niger River and passed through Oru moving further eastward until they came to a place they called Be Ndi (Bende) Igbo, meaning Igbo territory. Some of the names of these immigrants who migrated from Igodomigodo and populated Bende were; Alayi, Igbere, Nkalu Itu, Abam, Ohofia, Ututu and Arochukwu.

These Igodomigodo immigrants aggressively displaced the original Anang and ibibio inhabitants of the area and claimed their forest and lands. The case of of Abam, Ohofia and Ututu was particularly poignant because of the brutal way they went about forest and land acquisitions. They faughtand virtually wiped out or displaced the aborigines. Thus, whereas the Igbo to Oru migration and settlement pattern were marked by pacts of mutual coexistence with the aborigines of Oru, the Mben - Owan trail to Bende was marked with incidences of displacement and subjugation.

J. Akuma-Kalu is an Associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore Studies and Anthopology at Western Kentucky University.

Source: Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States: Lessons from Folkloristic.

*Nnadi Kanu is from Afara Ohofia and his ancestors are from Igodomigodo, present day Edo State. He should stop deceiving uneducated Igbos about Jewish ancestry.

SlayerForever:
Every Igbo clan pre existed Igodomido, that's what revisionists like you on NL don't know. The Igbo are the oldest known group in the Nigerian space today. Get that into your cranium.

Atigba:
The Origin of Arochukwu, Ohofia, Abam, Ututu etc. - by Prof. J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku.

Around 16 century, the southern part of Igboland was originately inhabited by Oru people before some Igbos in the Northern part migrated to join Oru due to population pressure and depletion of quality of farmland.
*Note the Oru people who were the aborigines of The land stem from Igodomigodo.*

In addition to southward migration, another group of migrants, the Mben - Owan group, migrated from Igodomigodo/Edo State eastward across the Niger River and passed through Oru moving further eastward until they came to a place they called Be Ndi (Bende) Igbo, meaning Igbo territory. Some of the names of these immigrants who migrated from Igodomigodo and populated Bende were; Alayi, Igbere, Nkalu Itu, Abam, Ohofia, Ututu and Arochukwu.

These Igodomigodo immigrants aggressively displaced the original Anang and ibibio inhabitants of the area and claimed their forest and lands. The case of of Abam, Ohofia and Ututu was particularly poignant because of the brutal way they went about forest and land acquisitions. They faughtand virtually wiped out or displaced the aborigines. Thus, whereas the Igbo to Oru migration and settlement pattern were marked by pacts of mutual coexistence with the aborigines of Oru, the Mben - Owan trail to Bende was marked with incidences of displacement and subjugation.

J. Akuma-Kalu is an Associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore Studies and Anthopology at Western Kentucky University.

Source: Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States: Lessons from Folkloristic.

*Nnadi Kanu is from Afara Ohofia and his ancestors are from Igodomigodo, present day Edo State. He should stop deceiving uneducated Igbos about Jewish ancestry.

kingzizzy:


There is just one question that renders everything you wrote to be nonsense.

Why would Edo people migrate to present day Igbo land and give the area Igbo names?

Edo people migrated to present day Bende and gave the place an Igbo name "be ndi Igbo"? Do Edo people speak Igbo? I know that Igbanke people of Edo state speak Igbo but they are Ika-Igbo people who were carved into Edo state rather than with their Ika kith and kin in Delta state.

This is the same nonsense people say about the Ikwerre people of Rivers State, that they are Bini migrants who came to present day Rivers state, gave their villages Igbo names(a language they could not have known), dropped their Bini surnames and language and adopted Igbo ones. How can anyone be stupid enough to believe such a story?

Which migrant will move somewhere and the first thing he does is to call the place a name in a language he does not speak?

There is way too much stupidity on earth

Atigba:


Most of Igbo town and communities were founded in 15, 16 and 17 centuries.

SlayerForever:



Igbo has been discovered to have existed a millennium BC. Today ordinary Benin go dey talk rubbish. Saying Igbo groups came out from them, what nonsense.

kingzizzy:


There is just one question that renders everything you wrote to be nonsense.

Why would Edo people migrate to present day Igbo land and give the area Igbo names?

Edo people migrated to present day Bende and gave the place an Igbo name "be ndi Igbo"? Do Edo people speak Igbo? I know that Igbanke people of Edo state speak Igbo but they are Ika-Igbo people who were carved into Edo state rather than with their Ika kith and kin in Delta state.

This is the same nonsense people say about the Ikwerre people of Rivers State, that they are Bini migrants who came to present day Rivers state, gave their villages Igbo names(a language they could not have known), dropped their Bini surnames and language and adopted Igbo ones. How can anyone be stupid enough to believe such a story?

Which migrant will move somewhere and the first thing he does is to call the place a name in a language he does not speak?

There is way too much stupidity on earth

Atigba:
The Origin of Arochukwu, Ohofia, Abam, Ututu etc. - by Prof. J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku.

Around 16 century, the southern part of Igboland was originately inhabited by Oru people before some Igbos in the Northern part migrated to join Oru due to population pressure and depletion of quality of farmland.
*Note the Oru people who were the aborigines of The land stem from Igodomigodo.*

In addition to southward migration, another group of migrants, the Mben - Owan group, migrated from Igodomigodo/Edo State eastward across the Niger River and passed through Oru moving further eastward until they came to a place they called Be Ndi (Bende) Igbo, meaning Igbo territory. Some of the names of these immigrants who migrated from Igodomigodo and populated Bende were; Alayi, Igbere, Nkalu Itu, Abam, Ohofia, Ututu and Arochukwu.

These Igodomigodo immigrants aggressively displaced the original Anang and ibibio inhabitants of the area and claimed their forest and lands. The case of of Abam, Ohofia and Ututu was particularly poignant because of the brutal way they went about forest and land acquisitions. They faughtand virtually wiped out or displaced the aborigines. Thus, whereas the Igbo to Oru migration and settlement pattern were marked by pacts of mutual coexistence with the aborigines of Oru, the Mben - Owan trail to Bende was marked with incidences of displacement and subjugation.

J. Akuma-Kalu is an Associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore Studies and Anthopology at Western Kentucky University.

Source: Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States: Lessons from Folkloristic.

*Nnadi Kanu is from Afara Ohofia and his ancestors are from Igodomigodo, present day Edo State. He should stop deceiving uneducated Igbos about Jewish ancestry.

Atigba:


Igbos didnt come out from Benin. Benin kingdom was established in 12 century AD by prince Orominyan.

Benin kingdom is a portion of land in Igodomigodo. The Igbos migrated from Igodomigodo.

SlayerForever:
Every Igbo clan pre existed Igodomido, that's what revisionists like you on NL don't know. The Igbo are the oldest known group in the Nigerian space today. Get that into your cranium.

Dedetwo:


This is one of the idiotic conjectures I ever read on this forum. Where was the migration point of the people of Igodomigodo, including Bini?
The Igbo people, Igbo being derived from Gboo or Ndi gboo which means ancient people or original did not migrate from anywhere, There is not other place you can see people like Igbo people in world except in Nigeria.

Etinosa1234:
I'm Benin but this story na cruise..

Seun pls come and move this thread to the joke section abeg

SlayerForever:
Every Igbo clan pre existed Igodomido, that's what revisionists like you on NL don't know. The Igbo are the oldest known group in the Nigerian space today. Get that into your cranium.

SlayerForever:



Igbo has been discovered to have existed a millennium BC. Today ordinary Benin go dey talk rubbish. Saying Igbo groups came out from them, what nonsense.

Dedetwo:


People write about these migration as if it was done in the today's society where there are express roads and measured amount of civilization. Even as recently as when the British were writing treaties after treaties in Igbo land, it was very difficult to go from Amaraku to Owerri. Most of all these silly migrations were mere figment of author's imagination.

Dedetwo:


People write about these migration as if it was done in the today's society where there are express roads and measured amount of civilization. Even as recently as when the British were writing treaties after treaties in Igbo land, it was very difficult to go from Amaraku to Owerri. Most of all these silly migrations were mere figment of author's imagination.

Mraphel:
I knew all along Igbos migrated from Benin

Nwanyiogwashi:
How can a tribe of close to 50m people (Igbo) migrate from Benin that is not up 4m people You well so?

Atigba:
The Origin of Arochukwu, Ohofia, Abam, Ututu etc. - by Prof. J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku.

Around 16 century, the southern part of Igboland was originately inhabited by Oru people before some Igbos in the Northern part migrated to join Oru due to population pressure and depletion of quality of farmland.
*Note the Oru people who were the aborigines of The land stem from Igodomigodo.*

In addition to southward migration, another group of migrants, the Mben - Owan group, migrated from Igodomigodo/Edo State eastward across the Niger River and passed through Oru moving further eastward until they came to a place they called Be Ndi (Bende) Igbo, meaning Igbo territory. Some of the names of these immigrants who migrated from Igodomigodo and populated Bende were; Alayi, Igbere, Nkalu Itu, Abam, Ohofia, Ututu and Arochukwu.

These Igodomigodo immigrants aggressively displaced the original Anang and ibibio inhabitants of the area and claimed their forest and lands. The case of of Abam, Ohofia and Ututu was particularly poignant because of the brutal way they went about forest and land acquisitions. They faughtand virtually wiped out or displaced the aborigines. Thus, whereas the Igbo to Oru migration and settlement pattern were marked by pacts of mutual coexistence with the aborigines of Oru, the Mben - Owan trail to Bende was marked with incidences of displacement and subjugation.

J. Akuma-Kalu is an Associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore Studies and Anthopology at Western Kentucky University.

Source: Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States: Lessons from Folkloristic.

*Nnadi Kanu is from Afara Ohofia and his ancestors are from Igodomigodo, present day Edo State. He should stop deceiving uneducated Igbos about Jewish ancestry.