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27 local governments · 6 stories

6 stories

01 Lost history · Imo

The houses built for gods, and built to rot

Mbari houses of the Owerri Igbo →
02 People · Imo

Pericoma, the masquerade singer people said could make himself too heavy to carry

Pericoma Okoye of Arondizuogu →
03 Lost history · Imo

The speech in Ahiara where a dying Biafra wrote down what it wanted to be

The Ahiara Declaration, Mbaise →
04 People · Imo

Flora Nwapa, the Oguta woman who wrote the lake goddess into world literature

Flora Nwapa and Uhamiri of Oguta Lake →
05 People · Imo

The man of timber and caliber, who made English do tricks

K.O. Mbadiwe of Arondizuogu →
06 Legend · Imo

Owerri, the city named after a quarrel over a funeral cow

How Owerri got its name, Owerri Municipal →