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May 09, 2016

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF OKPANAM

The town called Okpanam is bordered by Asaba and Ugbolu (a vassal of Okpanam) to the East, Igbuzo (Ibusa) and Ogwashi-Uku to the South, Issele Azagba and Azagba Ogwashi to the West and Akwukwu Igbo, Atuma and the River Niger to the North. With a population of nearly 70,000 made up mainly of civil servants and farmers, Okpanam is indisputably the oldest human habitation in the Delta State Capital Territory. This is evidenced by the huge land mass available to her compared with that of her more prosperous neighours such as Asaba and Ibusa. In deed there are still records showing that the Zappa Primary School and Catholic Church by the Water works in Asaba are located on Okpanam ancestral lands. The coming of the State capital to this area has unfortunately given the government an instrument with which to grab more land freely from Okpanam and transfer to others under the guise of development. The other members of the triumvirate making up the State Capital Territory are Ibusa and Asab...

MYSTERIES IN OKPANAM HISTORY: the Veneration of the Ram

By Larry Happiday This ancient Greek ram rhyton was used in pouring libation to their gods . Pic Credit: Wikipedia There are man mysteries that are accountable in Okpanam history. Among the many mysteries that still remain curious events are: the emergency of ram as the town's chief totem; the death of one-man kingship; the voice at Ogwugwu; the role of birds ( eneke ) in the deliverance of Okpanam from the massacre of Nigerian army officers during the civil war years and the role of some elders and a strange white horse in that series of "coincidences" that saved the people from mass murders as seen in the neighbouring town Asaba. In this series, I intend to write on these events, interview elders who should know about them and get you the details first hand. Keep a date with Okpanam Forum . Ram: Forbidden by the people of Okpanam Ven...

Why are there Non-Igbo Lexicons in Okpanam Cosmology?

Map of Okpanam used here is not meant to be authoritative and should not be used as such. User is advised to use with caution. Any one interested in the history of Okpanam would easily notice that there are many lexical items that seem normal now but may not have been so some years, decades or centuries ago. Family names, villages and names of Quarters show clearly that their origin come from different sources. Why is it necessary to study these lexical items? First, America is, today, replete with Zimmermans, Okafors, Obamas and Chibuogus whose ancestory is far from that continent. Today it is possible to locate the origin of those names because of technology and also because, their frequency or occurrence is low. In a couple of years or decades, those names would become household names in America. Then, it would have been possible to mistake the names for traditional American names but we know, now how those names have arrived from various parts of the world, because this...

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