THE Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Highness, Igwe Achebe has revealed that the Yoruba are not the first settlers in Ile-Ife as it is widely believed or held, Vanguard reports.
The Igbo, he said, according to a recent history book recorded that the original settlers in Ile-Ife whom the Oduduwa met were the Igbo people of Nigeria calling attention to Ugbo or Ijebu- Ugbo sections in Yoruba land.
He made the disclosure while speaking at First Chinua Achebe International Conference organised by the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.HRM Igwe Alfred Achebe, said the late prolific author, Chinua Achebe, would always be remembered by Ndigbo for projecting the Igbo worldview, the history, culture and cosmology.
According to him, ''the Igbo society existed beyond what lProf. Achebe recorded in his books, a recent history book has ascribed to the Igbo as the original settlers in Ile-Ife and whom Oduduwa met, other than the present contest between the Ife and the Ugbo sections in Yoruba land.''
Digging deep to unveil this, Igwe Achebe, therefore, tasked the academia in the University of Nigeria to conduct further research that would either authenticate or dismiss the new study on Igbo origin and settlement.
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