HOW BRITAIN MASSACRED ORIGINAL IGBO NAMES AHEAD OF INDEPENDENCE

HOW BRITAIN MASSACRED ORIGINAL IGBO NAMES AHEAD OF INDEPENDENCE

Many Igbo scholars have continued to make revelations on how the colonial master and mainly the Britain dislodged principal Igbo words to suite their tongue while destroying our language after all.

Here are some names of Igbo Communities renamed by British after the invasion of the great Benin Kingdom.

1: Owerri – Original Name: Owe Ere

2: Orlụ – Original name: Ọlụ

3: Awkuzu – Original Name: Ọkụ Ụzọ Achagbunam

4: Okigwe – Original name: Oka Igwe

5: Enugu – Original name: Enu Ugwu: It is a mountain town

6: Okpaala – Original Name: Ọkpụ Ala Ngwa

7: Port Harcourt- Original name: Igwe Ọcha

8: Opobo – Original name: Igwe Nga

9: Bonny – Original Name: Ubani

10: Oyigbo- Original name: Obi Igbo

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11:Abakiliki- Original Name :Abakeleke

12: Mbaise – Original Name: Agbaaja, Ahiara, Ekwerazụ, Oke Ovoro and Ezinihite They are Five independent villages but the white man force them to answer Mbaise as one village , The Mbaise people have a different culture that they believe in.

13: Asaba – Original Name: Ahaba

14: Onitsha – Original Name: Onicha

15: Ibusa – Original Name: Igbo Ụzọ

16: Ogwashi Original name: Ọgwa Ahi. They are from Nri

17:Awka – Oka

18: Awkunanaw – Okunnano,

19 Amawbia- Amaobia,

20: Umuahia- Ọma ahịa

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