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Igbo Peoples (village-group Igboland)

1000 – 1900
CultureAfrica

The Igbo world east and south of the lower Niger: several hundred autonomous village-groups governed by councils of elders, age grades, title societies and oracles rather than kings. The atlas already draws its few centralised fragments - Nri, the Aro Confederacy, Onitsha's Niger-bank towns - but those were small parts of Igboland; the great majority of Igbo ground was acephalous and, until now, blank on the map.

Not an ending: the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria created in 1900 enclosed Igboland, and the Aro expedition of 1901-02 and the warrant-chief system dismantled Igbo political autonomy - but the Igbo are one of Africa's largest peoples today, and the atlas simply hands the ground to Colonial Nigeria at 1900.

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