Awah, or Avba, is a town in
Delta State,
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
.
Located on the shores of the
Ase River
Ase may refer to:
* Ase, Nigeria, a town in Delta State, Nigeria
* -ase, a suffix used for the names of enzymes
* Aṣẹ, a West African philosophical concept
* American Sign Language (ISO 639-3 code: ase)
See also
* Åse (disambiguation) Å ...
in the
Ndokwa East
Ndokwa East is a Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Aboh.
It has an area of 1,617 km and a population of 103,171 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 322. The southernmost end ...
Local Government Area, it is one of the
Isoko speaking communities found in the Old Aboh political division. Until the creation of Delta State in 1991, it was formerly with the Ndoshimili Local Government Area with headquarters located in
Kwale
Kwale is a small town in and the capital of Kwale County, Kenya. It is located at around ; 30 km southwest of Mombasa and 15 km inland. The town has an urban population of 10,063 (2019 census). It is next to the Shimba Hills National ...
, in the defunct
Bendel state.
Awah is the oldest of the communities that make up the Ibrede clan. The name Awah was derived from Awvenfor which literally means “Let us rest”. Oral history has it that the first inhabitants of Awah migrated from Otor-Iyede in the present-day
Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. The current location was the place where the group of immigrants who left Otor-Iyede during the uprising in Otor-Iyede rested but majority of the immigrants later went their separate ways leaving Igwoma and a few others behind. It is pertinent to add that the founders of Ibrede, Iyede-Ame and Lagos Iyede, left Awah in search of greener pastures. Awah is also popularly called Otor-Ewho.
The town Awah shares a common boundary with
Ofagbe
Ofagbe ("Ofa kugbe") is a town about southeast of Ozoro, the headquarters of the Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Legend has it that the town was established by three families who migrated from various points in the t ...
,
Ibrede,
Iyede-Ame
Iyede-Ame, ("watery Iyede") derived its name from Iyede, an upland town in Isoko South Local Government Area in Delta State, Nigeria.
Oral legend has it that the first inhabitants of Iyede-Ame migrated from Iyede mentioned above. A riverine comm ...
,
Lagos-Iyede,
Ogege,
Ewho-Okorafor,
Anyama,
Iyowo and
Onogboko
Onogbokor is an Isoko-speaking town in the Ndokwa East Local Government Area (LGA), Delta State, Nigeria. Until the creation of Delta State in 1991, it was formerly with the Ndoshimili LGA with headquarters located in Kwale, in the defunct Bende ...
.
The town has two major families which are Igwoma and Okwoye. The community operates both traditional institution and politico-administrative government with the highest leadership authority in the town as the Odio Ologbo while the politico-administrative government is headed by the president general and the belief system of the people is a combination of traditional worship and Christian practices.
The main economic activities of the town is agriculture ranging from cassava production, plantain, yam, starch, palm oil, fish, timber etc. The town has a primary school run by the state government and the named Uzobe after the quarter where the first immigrants of the town came from. The school was opened in 1955.
References
Bibliography
*S.U., Omu.(2004).Unity Among Isoko People, Leadership Perspective; The Way Forward. Second National Convention of Isoko Association of North America Inc.
*Ikime, O.(1972)The Isoko People.
* "Isoko in Nigeria". Joshua Project. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
* The Isoko Tribe, James W. Welch https://www.jstor.org/stable/1155529
* Welch, James W. (1934). "The Isoko Tribe". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 7 (2): 160–173. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1155529
*Isoko traditional rulers want peace in Ibrede - The Nigerian Voice Oct 21, 2017 https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/258825/isoko-traditional-rulers-want-peace-in-ibrede.html.
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Populated places in Delta State