Igbo trading network centered on the Arochukwu oracle that dominated the Bight of Biafra slave trade.
The Aro Confederacy was broken up by the British Aro Expedition of 1901–1902, during which British forces destroyed the Long Juju oracle at Arochukwu and arrested Aro leaders; the Confederacy ceased to exist as a political and commercial network by 1902.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Aro Confederacy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1690 · 1749 · 1765 · 1884.
Shillington's survey covers the Igbo hinterland and the Aro trading and oracle network of south-eastern Nigeria.
The Atlantic slave trade the Aro network fed (broad context, not Aro-specific).
Igboland on the eve of colonial rule — the landmark African novel.