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The Ohu System of Slavery in a Northern Ibo Village-groupAfrica, 24
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Uzuakoli, a short history
O. Kalu (1977)
Missionaries, Colonial Government and Secret Societies in South-Eastern Igboland, 1920-1950Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 9
PRIMITIVE METHODISTS ON THE RAILROAD JUNCTIONS OF IGBOLAND, 1910-1931 BY OGBU U. KALU (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) The Primitive Methodists declared 1931 a Jubilee Year with a book aptly entitled, Ak,uko Oke Onu (A Story of Great joy). The in- domitable missionary, Fred William Dodds, painted a picture of a missionary enterprise in Igboland which had proved to be a huge success. He illustrated it with the story of Uzuakoli. Apparently, the first contact with Uzuakoli in 1910 was fraught with danger as unfriendly villagers surrounded the white missionary and his young African companion from the Niger Delta area, wielding matchets and spears. A prominent chief, Iheukumere, presided over the episode. This, in fact, was the point which Dodds wished to make: twenty-one years later, the Primitive Methodists held a huge rally attended by converts from all over Igboland, comprising of about ninety-six circuits, at Uzuakoli: Again there was a great crowd standing in a ring around the open space. _ Again a solitary man sat on the same log on which I had sat. This time, the crowd consisted of hundreds of Christian men and women, from Uzuakoli and from all the Ibo circuits. The solitary man
Journal of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1986
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