The Anioma people are Ibos of Western Nigeria currently Situated in Delta State, making up to nine local government areas of about ninety towns and several villages.
Series: The History of Anioma People [Part 3]
The Waves of Migration
The British historian, Arnold tonybee did say at a lecture in 1964 at kings college Lagos, Nigeria, that history comes up in waves, and this is why, in its repetitive nature, it so resembles waves, for each wave is always like the preceding one. Like waves, each migration has features like its predecessor- the search for land, the search for freedom, the search for the golden fleece, the search for fame and glory, the search for safety.
After the waves of migrations from the eastern part of the world brought most West Africans to permanently reside where they are today, the migrant Ibos dispersed into different areas of the present Anioma, to find what we know today as Anioma. Let us not forget that the claim of Eastern migrations into West Africa is not imaginary. It is real. After all, Archaeologists have established that the first man create...
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