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Oron people
Summary
The Oron people (or Oron Community) are ethnic or tribal grouping of sub communities that make up the Oron Ethnic Nationality or Oron Nation. The Oron (Örö ) are located primarily in southern Nigeria in the riverine area of Akwa Ibom and the Cross River States and in Cameroon. Akpakip Oro are regarded as an ancient warrior people, speaking the Oron ( Oro )language which is in the Cross River language family of the Benue–Congo languages. They are ancestrally related to the Efik people of the Cross River State, the Ibeno and Eastern Obolo( ie Adoni East) in Akwa Ibom, the Andoni people in Rivers State ,Ohafia in Abia State and the Balondo-ba-Konja in the Congo.
The geopolitical restructuring of states and local government within Nigeria has seen the egalitarian society of the Oron Nation being fragmented politically in the Niger Delta. They have been divided across two separate Nigerian states, the Cross River State and Akwa Ibom state, and then into five local government areas (LGAs) within the Akwa Ibom state namely Oron LGA ( Oron Central) ,Okobo,Udung Uko, Mbo and Urue Ofong Oruko
Local Government Areas.
The Oron Nation is usually called by its members as Oro Ukpabang; Akpakip Oro; or Oro Ukpabang Okpo. These names are derived from their ancestral father Abang Okpo. The Akpakip Oro are made up of nine clans known as Afaha.
Akpakip Oro is a multi-ethnic nation which is made up of six groups:
Oron Ukpabang
Okobo
Idua (Asang)
Enwang
Ebughu Otong
Efiat/Mbo
The earliest known reference to the Oron Nation is from 24th century BC, around 2370 BC, according to evidence from ancient Oron ancestral carvings, the Ekpu Oro found today in the Oron Museum and other museum specifically National Museum of China around the world. Some of the finest wooden statuary attributed to Oron peoples are beautifully carved ekpu (ancestral figures). Many of these were destroyed and removed from Nigeria during the Biafran war in the late 1960s.
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