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{{Short description|Ora people}} | ||
| Ora people or Oke_Ora are Edoid speaking ethnic group who share a common culture and language of the Benin kingdom. They are believed to be the descendants of Oba Ozolua | |||
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| | location = Ilode II, ] Local Government Area, Nigeria | |||
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| | built = ]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bondarenko |first1=Dmitri |title=Benin prehistory: The origin and settling down of the Edo |journal=Anthropos |date=1 January 1999 |page=4 | url=https://www.academia.edu/1903063 |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
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| cultures = Ora Culture | ||
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| | occupants = Oranfe, Oduduwa | |||
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| |Religion=Christianity 70% .Traditional religion 30%|Related ethnic groups=Edo, Afemai, Urhobo, Isoko|Population=32,546|Language=}} | |||
| | excavations = 1977 | |||
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=WHY ORA PEOPLE DON'T BOW TO OBA OF BENIN |url=https://vocal.media/history/why-ora-people-don-t-bow-to-oba-of-benin |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=History |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| |archaeologists = Omotoso Eluyemi <ref>{{cite journal |title=West African Journal of Archaeology |journal=West African Journal of Archaeology |date=1994 |volume=24 |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZsPAQAAMAAJ&q=Eluyemi+oke+ora |access-date=30 July 2023 |publisher=editorial board of WAJA |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shennan |first1=S. J. |title=Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity |date=20 May 2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-86629-8 |page=207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tb-IAgAAQBAJ&dq=Eluyemi+oke+ora&pg=PA207 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| | condition = Abandoned. (A small hamlet at the foot of the hill continues to bear the name) | |||
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| | notes = Early Yoruba community, <br />The origin of ] and ]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ajayi |first1=J. F. Ade |last2=Crowder |first2=Michael |title=History of West Africa |date=1976 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-04103-4 |pages=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GiRAAAAIAAJ&q=as+far+as+the+concrete+evidence+goes+,+this+is+unlikely+to+be+further+afield+than+Ora+hill |language=en}}</ref> | |||
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| '''Oke Ora''' (]: ''Òkè Ọ̀rà'') is an ancient community and archaeological site situated on a hill about {{cvt|8|km|0}} east of ], in between the city and the small village of Itagunmodi. Two important characters in the early history of ]; ] and ] came from Oke Ora.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nwanyanwu |first1=O. J. |last2=Opajobi |first2=Bola |last3=Olayinka |first3=Sola |title=Education for Socio-economic & Political Development in Nigeria |date=1997 |publisher=Visual Resources |isbn=978-978-34467-0-0 |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99tCAQAAIAAJ&q=oke+ora+ife |access-date=1 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Several stories and legends of the ] surround the site. In the Yoruba creation legend, it was the first mound of earth formed from the soil in a snail shell and from which ], the first settlement was built. Today, it continues to play an important role in certain religious rites of the Ife people, most significantly, in the coronation rituals of the ], king of Ifẹ̀.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nigeria |first1=Guardian |title=Ife coronation rituals and the primacy of history |url=https://guardian.ng/features/ife-coronation-rituals-and-the-primacy-of-history/ |website=The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News |access-date=30 July 2023 |date=28 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New Ooni of Ife presented with traditional ''Ade-Are'' crown - P.M. News |url=https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/23/new-ooni-of-ife-presented-with-traditional-ade-are-crown/ |website=PM News Nigeria |access-date=30 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
| ==Name== | |||
| The name ''Oke Ora'' owes its etymology to two separate words; ''Òkè'' and ''Ọ̀ra''. In the ], ''Òkè'' means a mountain or hill, while ''Ọ̀ra'' is a deity, who is one of the highest ranking in Ife, and said to be an avatar of Orishala<ref>{{cite web |title='Traditional leaders need to be more sensitive to history' |url=https://tribuneonlineng.com/traditional-leaders-need-to-be-more-sensitive-to-history/ |website=Tribune Online |access-date=30 July 2023 |date=16 May 2021}}</ref> | |||
| ==Site== | |||
| Oke Ora is the most important landmark in a chain of seven hills surrounding the sites of the ancient Ife confederation. This confederation of Thirteen clans/provinces, (]: ''Ẹ̀lú Mẹ́tàlá'') was set in the central plain, fringed by the hills like the middle of a bowl stretching some 20 km across.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Babalola |first1=Abidemi Babatunde |title=Archaeological Investigation at Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria: A Preliminary Report on the 2010 Test Excavations, Pg.35 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd0e66f8d97400eb0099556/t/5bde0337352f5316b2f38ae1/1541276478511/Nyame+Akuma+Issue+076-Babalola.pdf |publisher=Rice University |access-date=30 July 2023}}</ref> Because of the water streams flowing downhill into the center of the bowl which was at a lower altitude of around 275m, the middle of the Ife bowl was seasonally flooded and swampy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ogundiran |first1=Akinwumi |title=Classic Ilé-Ifẹ̀: A Consideration of Scale in the Archaeology of Early Yorùbá Urbanism, ad 1000–1400 |journal=Journal of Urban Archaeology |date=January 2023 |volume=7 |pages=77–94 |doi=10.1484/J.JUA.5.133451 |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.JUA.5.133451 |access-date=3 August 2023 |language=en |issn=2736-2426}}</ref> The six other hills are; ''Oke-Obagbile, Oke-Ipao, Oke-Ijugbe, Oke-Onigbin, Oke-Araromi and Oke-Owu.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aderinto |first1=Saheed |title=African Kingdoms: An Encyclopedia of Empires and Civilizations |date=24 August 2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-580-0 |pages=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZAwDwAAQBAJ&dq=Oke+ora+onigbin+obagbile+ife&pg=PA123 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| Archaeological work in the area has produced several artefacts in rock shelters on these hills,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fabunmi |first1=M. A. |title=An Anthology of Historical Notes on Ifẹ City |date=1985 |publisher=J. West Publications |isbn=978-978-163-017-0 |page=20 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/An_Anthology_of_Historical_Notes_on_If/SsZBAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=ooyelagbo&dq=ooyelagbo&printsec=frontcover |access-date=28 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref> such as; hand tools i.e. axes, broken pottery fragments, charcoal, stone sculptures, ancient road pavements and clay figurines. Some of the pots have holes in their rims for ropes to hang them from palm trees in the collection of palm wine. All being evidence of early human habitation by the ancestors of the modern people of Ife and its immediate environs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shennan |first1=S. J. |title=Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity |date=20 May 2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-86629-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tb-IAgAAQBAJ&q=artefacts+excavated+at+the+site+&pg=PA207 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| Close by Oke Ora was ''Igbo Ore'', a site which is associated with a character in early Ife known by the name ''Oreluere''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VC51AAAAIAAJ&q=idena+oke+ora |publisher=Historical Society of Nigeria |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en |date=1978}}</ref> The grove has also yielded several artefacts such as the Idena and Olofenfura (Olofinfura) human stone sculptures.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ajayi |first1=J. F. Ade |last2=Crowder |first2=Michael |title=History of West Africa |date=1976 |publisher=Longman |isbn=978-0-582-64187-7 |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ERzAAAAMAAJ&q=idena+stone+carvings |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> These sculptures have been estimated to date to the period in between the 8th and 10th centuries CE.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Falola |first1=Toyin |last2=Jennings |first2=Christian |title=Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed |date=2004 |publisher=University Rochester Press |isbn=978-1-58046-140-5 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CS5tHpdMMa4C&dq=idena+ore+ife&pg=PA46 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> British Archaeologist, Paul Ozanne stated in his 1969 preliminary survey of the Ife area that; "Many settlements were already established on ground in the Ife country by at least the 4th century BC (350BCE) in the latest." The gradual establishment and peopling of the area that became Ife dates back to around the year (900BC).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aderinto |first1=Saheed |title=African Kingdoms: An Encyclopedia of Empires and Civilizations |date=24 August 2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-61069-580-0 |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hXHEAAAQBAJ&dq=oke+ora+ife&pg=PA123 |access-date=30 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Transafrican Journal of History |date=1992 |publisher=East African Publishing House |page=141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPwkcFs2K4EC&q=IFe+500bc |access-date=30 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ==History== | ==History== | ||
| ].]] | |||
| The history of Oke Ora is directly related to the history of early communities of Ife, and by extension the entirety of Yorubaland- the vast majority of which directly relate to Ife through dynastic migrations of people, royals and ideas by way of innovation and technology. | |||
| According to Ife accounts, it was from the settlement atop this hill that Oduduwa and his followers descended into the midst of an ongoing political imbroglio that had engulfed the thirteen confederal communities (''Ẹ̀lú Mẹ́tàlá'') in the Ife valley/bowl headed at the time by Obatala. On ground in the Ife area, he met Sixteen extant elders known as the '''Ooye Merindinlogun''' which included; Agboniregun (Orunmila), Oluorogbo, Oreluere, Elesije, Obameri, Esidale, Obagede, Obasin, Obalejugbe, Ojumu of Iloran and others. The incoming Oduduwa group did not belong to the confederal arrangement in the valley, and were originally seen as outsiders (new comers). This was the source of purport for the traditional account that Oduduwa was a "stranger from the east".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ogunremi |first1=Deji |last2=Adediran |first2=Biodun |title=Culture and Society in Yorubaland |date=1998 |publisher=Rex Charles Publication |isbn=978-978-2137-73-9 |pages=268 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dm8uAQAAIAAJ&q=oke+ora+ife |access-date=30 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Traditions of Origin of Ora People owan edo state nigeria |url=https://edoworld.net/owan_Ora_people.html |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=edoworld.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Korkus |first=Stella Dimoko |title=Story Of Why Ora People Dont Bow To The Oba Of Benin |url=https://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2023/11/story-of-why-ora-people-dont-bow-to-oba.html |access-date=2024-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Traditions of Origin of Ora People owan edo state nigeria |url=https://edoworld.net/owan_Ora_people.html |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=edoworld.net}}</ref> | |||
| The Oduduwa led group then took advantage of the ongoing disharmonious political situation to enter the political fray that dominated the affairs of the Ife valley at the time.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adebayo |first1=Akanmu |title=Culture, Politics, and Money Among the Yoruba |date=6 February 2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-52419-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vPdKDwAAQBAJ&dq=Oke+ora&pg=PT19 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| == Significance of Ora_Ekpen == | |||
| The thirteen communities/provinces/clans (''Elu'') that formed the Ife federation were: | |||
| Oran Ekpen married six wives from Uokha and each wife had two children .This made all his children to be 12 in Iregbe. From Iregbe or Odorere, the moved to Ugbubezi from where they settled in their present settlement. The most senor child of Ora Ekpen is Umale or Imale. Umale turned out to be very lazy and un ambitious. He was a disappointment.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Azelama |first=Julius Uduimho |title=The leadership philosophy of comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole |date=2016 |publisher=Stirling-Horden Publishers |isbn=9789780325794 |pages=Page 45 |language=English}}</ref> His brothers colluded among themselves and killed him. Obe his blood brother then reported this occurrence to their father. As a result of this occurrence, Ora- Ekpen dispersed all the children to different settlements that formed the six major clans that made the present day Ora.. The six major clans that represents the first sons of each wife are Ohia, Ovbiokhuanrin, Evbiobe, Uhonmora, Oke and Eme.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Traditions of Origin of Ora People owan edo state nigeria |url=https://edoworld.net/owan_Ora_people.html |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=edoworld.net}}</ref> | |||
| ] | |||
| * Iloromu | |||
| * Imojubi | |||
| * Ideta (Idita) | |||
| * Oke-Oja | |||
| * Parakin | |||
| * Ido | |||
| * Iwinrin | |||
| * Odin | |||
| * Ijugbe | |||
| * Iraye | |||
| * Oke-Awo | |||
| * Iloran | |||
| * Omologun | |||
| ==Clans of Ora== | |||
| Out of their number, Ideta was the largest.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akintoye |first1=Stephen Adebanji |title=A History of the Yoruba People |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Amalion Publishing |isbn=978-2-35926-027-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZcQEAAAQBAJ&dq=Iloromu,+Imojubi,+Ideta,+Parakin,+Ido%27,+Iwinrin,+Odin&pg=PT77 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> In addition to these, certain community names for various reasons (such as time of establishment) often come up in other sources as a part of the original thirteen clan confederacy, and sometimes not. These include; Ita Yemoo (Yemowo), Orun Oba Ado, Ilara, Igbo Olokun and Idio. Each village complex was further composed of its own sub-village (hamlet) groups. Ijugbe consisted of four villages, namely: Eranyigba, Igbogbe, Ipa and Ita Asin, while the Ideta complex had three: Ilale, Ilesun and Ilia villages, headed by the Obalale, Obalesun and Obalia respectively, local hamlet heads who were subservient to Obatala, lord of Ideta. All thirteen clans/provinces had their Obas, who were all said to report to the Obalejugbe, lord of Ijugbe.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Usman |first1=Aribidesi |last2=Falola |first2=Toyin |title=The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present |date=4 July 2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-06460-7 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hDCdDwAAQBAJ&dq=Iloromu,+Imojubi,+Ideta,+Parakin&pg=PA49 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The Ile-Ife confederacy was a loose political association with no centralized government, powerful Oba or seat of permanent power.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elaigwu |first1=J. Isawa |last2=Erim |first2=E. O. |last3=Uzoigwe |first3=G. N. |last4=Akindele |first4=R. A. |title=Foundations of Nigerian Federalism: Pre-colonial antecedents |date=2001 |publisher=Institute of Governance and Social Research (IGSR) |isbn=978-978-30738-4-5 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3JIHAQAAMAAJ&q=Parakin+oke+ora |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| <ref>{{Cite book |last=Uluvbigele |first=Aikoroje, Victoria |title=A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ORA PEOPLE IN EDO STATE NIGERIA - Softcover |publisher=Independently published |year=2018 |isbn=9781983385193 |publication-date=2018 |pages=Page 1 to 4 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Leonie |first=Pihama |title=Ora |date=March ,2024 |publisher=Huia Publishers |year=2021 |isbn=9781775506928 |publication-date=March 2010 |pages=Page 56 |language=English}}</ref> | |||
| Over time, leaders of the original clans and their people pitched their support with either of the rival sides. There grew an armed confrontation between the two factions that had developed in the Ife valley (The Obatala group and the Oduduwa group), which resulted in a devastating civil war. Pitching their tents in the Obatala camp were; Obamakin, Obawinrin of Iwinrin, Oluorogbo, and the two great warriors; Oshateko and Oshakire. While in the Oduduwa camp were; Obameri of Odin (His war captain), Obadio, Apata of Imojubi, Obalora and others. | |||
| ==Emergence of the Ugbo== | |||
| The civil war that engulfed ancient Ife forced Obatala and Obawinrin to abandon the Ideta and Iwinrin settlements respectively and flee across the '''Esimirin river''' to establish a new settlement with their people. The new settlement was called '''Ideta oko''' (I.e The Ideta camp as opposed to the actual '''Ideta ile''' or 'home Ideta'). After a time period when the situation had simmered down, a peace agreement was brokered between the victorious Oduduwa party and the Obatala faction by '''Ojumu''' of Iloran, one of the Ooye Merindinlogun elders. The agreement allowed for the return of Obatala and Obawinrin and their people to the ruins of Ideta and Iwinrin under the new leadership of Oduduwa in the newly unified settlement of “Ile-Ife” where Ooduwa was now in full control. Oduduwa became the first Ọba of a unified Ife. The era of the 13 semi autonomous clans (Elu) was gone for good. | |||
| However, not all members of the Obatala faction were pleased with the new terms of agreement/settlement. The dissatisfied minority led by Obawinrin vowed never to return, stayed out of the city and migrated further away from Ideta Oko to a place called '''Igbo Ugbo'''. They launched clandestine bouts of guerrilla attacks, arson, stealing, terror, kidnapping, farm attacks and other vices on Ife from there up until the ] saga which put an end to the attacks from the Ugbo for good.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bascom |first1=William Russell |title=Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa |date=11 March 1991 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-20638-1 |page=515 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CS0h4Ye9puUC&dq=Oluyare+Ife&pg=PA515 |language=en}}</ref> Obatala himself is known as Oba ] (King of the Igbo) - While the ] are also known as the Eluyare or Igare.<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria |date=1978 |publisher=Historical Society of Nigeria |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VC51AAAAIAAJ&q=Oluyare+Igare |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ==Significance of Oke Ora== | |||
| The legendary descent of Oduduwa from Oke Ora is ] in Yoruba religious/philosophical circles as a literal 'descent' from the ]s/abode of the ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abiodun |first1=Rowland |title=Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art |date=29 September 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-04744-0 |page=353 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LF43BAAAQBAJ&dq=oduduwa+oke+ora&pg=PA353 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| The ritual significance of Oduduwa's descent from Oke Ora is usually demonstrated in the coronation rituals of every new ] which involves seven kingmakers who play different functions. | |||
| On the morning of the coronation day, after spending twenty one days at ''Ilofin'' (seclusion) where his head is shaved,<ref>{{cite web |title=Ooni-Elect, Ogunwusi Leaves Ilofi for Crowning Today |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201511230616.html |website=Allarica.com |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> the king-in-making proceeds to Ife's eastern gate called ''Lekun Ode''. | |||
| This procession mirrors the path and direction that Oduduwa took into the Iloromu clan (now in Moore quarters) of Ife from his eastern home of Oke Ora. There, he meeds the Walode of Ife, high priest of ] and patron chief of the bead makers and glass workers of Ife who traditionally made the ]. | |||
| He then proceeds to visit the site of the Oduduwa temple and Oke Ora,<ref>{{cite web |title=New Ooni Of Ife Presented With The Aare Crown Worn Once A Year |url=https://www.informationng.com/2015/11/new-ooni-of-ife-presented-with-the-aare-crown-worn-once-a-year.html |website=Information Nigeria |access-date=31 July 2023 |date=24 November 2015}}</ref> home of his ancestor with members of the ''Isoro'' chiefly class, where he has a symbolic crown made for him by the Odofin of Ido. The Ife royal/state sword, 'Ada Ogun' (patron deity of the royal family) is also brought over to Ido and handed to the Ooni by the Owa Eredunmi, chief priest of Oranmiyan in a process known as Igbada or 'sword Investiture'. This is followed by crossing the eastern gate on the left side towards Iwesu. He is then proclaimed Ooni. | |||
| After the proclamation, his name is eventually announced at Enugeru.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adebayo |first1=Akanmu |title=Culture, Politics, and Money Among the Yoruba |date=6 February 2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-52419-3 |pages=390 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vPdKDwAAQBAJ&dq=Oke+ora&pg=PT19 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The palace and town officials then pay homage to the new king in the Obalufe's courtyard. | |||
| ==Ife Post Unification== | |||
| After the unification of Ife, the city developed based on Six major historic quarters (Ọ̀gbọ́n) overseen by the major chiefs of the Ihare class (town chiefs) who were originally six in number and led by the Obalufe who was comparable to a traditional prime minister of sort. Power became centralized under a ruler and the previously semi autonomous clans/communities in Ife had merged into a single urban entity. Even though the titles of some of the previous clan leaders and community heads continued to carry the prefix '''-Oba''', they had lost their political and economic power to the authority of the Ooni.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akinjogbin |first1=Isaac Adeagbo |title=The origins of iron metallurgy in Africa: new light on its antiquity ; West and Central Africa |date=2004 |publisher=Unesco |location=Paris |isbn=978-92-3-103807-5 |page=55 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000133901/PDF/133843eng.pdf.multi.nameddest=133901 |access-date=1 May 2024}}</ref> | |||
| The six new quarters of Ife were;<ref>{{cite web |title=Ooni: The storm that rocked the palace |url=http://currentnewsinnigeria.blogspot.com/2015/08/ooni-storm-that-rocked-palace.html?m=1 |website=Get Current News in Nigeria- Latest breaking news update |access-date=23 November 2023 |date=7 August 2015}}</ref> | |||
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| ! Village by seniority !! Totems and total wards | |||
| ! Wards !! Chiefs | |||
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| | Ohia || Boa and ovbe snake 4 wards | |||
| | Iremo (Remo) || Obalufe (Ọruntọ) Leader | |||
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| | Ovbiokhuain || Bushcat 1 ward | |||
| | Imoore (Moore) || Oba Ejio | |||
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| Evbiobe || Queen termite 3 wards | ||
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| | Uhonmora || Grasscutter 4 wards | |||
| | Ilare || Waasin | |||
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| | Oke_Ora || No village 2 wards | |||
| | Iraye || Obalaaye | |||
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| | Eme_Ora || Goat 5 wards | |||
| | Okerewe/Ikogun || Akogun<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Adegoke |first1=Ebenezer Olalekan |title=A study of the role of women in the burial rituals of the Ife of southwestern Nigeria. |date=March 1995 |page=20 |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/2933262/244106.pdf |journal= King's College Research Portal |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> | |||
| |} | |} | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| *Edo people | |||
| *] | |||
| *Afemai people | |||
| *] | |||
| *Esan people | |||
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| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-07 |title=Benin City and Edo culture, pure Nigerian history - Kumakonda |url=https://kumakonda.com/benin-city-culture-and-masks-edo-nigeria/ |access-date=2024-12-26 |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| <ref>{{Cite book |last=Henige |first=David |title=History in Africa |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |publication-date=2010 |pages=Page 2 |language=English |eissn=15582744 |issn=03615413}}</ref> | |||
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Ora peopleOra people or Oke_Ora are Edoid speaking ethnic group who share a common culture and language of the Benin kingdom. They are believed to be the descendants of Oba Ozolua
| History | |
|---|---|
| Cultures | Ora Culture |
| Associated with | Ora people |
History
Significance of Ora_Ekpen
Oran Ekpen married six wives from Uokha and each wife had two children .This made all his children to be 12 in Iregbe. From Iregbe or Odorere, the moved to Ugbubezi from where they settled in their present settlement. The most senor child of Ora Ekpen is Umale or Imale. Umale turned out to be very lazy and un ambitious. He was a disappointment. His brothers colluded among themselves and killed him. Obe his blood brother then reported this occurrence to their father. As a result of this occurrence, Ora- Ekpen dispersed all the children to different settlements that formed the six major clans that made the present day Ora.. The six major clans that represents the first sons of each wife are Ohia, Ovbiokhuanrin, Evbiobe, Uhonmora, Oke and Eme.
Clans of Ora
| Village by seniority | Totems and total wards |
|---|---|
| Ohia | Boa and ovbe snake 4 wards |
| Ovbiokhuain | Bushcat 1 ward |
| Evbiobe | Queen termite 3 wards |
| Uhonmora | Grasscutter 4 wards |
| Oke_Ora | No village 2 wards |
| Eme_Ora | Goat 5 wards |
See also
- Edo people
- Afemai people
- Esan people
References
- "WHY ORA PEOPLE DON'T BOW TO OBA OF BENIN". History. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- "The Traditions of Origin of Ora People owan edo state nigeria". edoworld.net. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- Korkus, Stella Dimoko. "Story Of Why Ora People Dont Bow To The Oba Of Benin". Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- "The Traditions of Origin of Ora People owan edo state nigeria". edoworld.net. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- Azelama, Julius Uduimho (2016). The leadership philosophy of comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole. Stirling-Horden Publishers. pp. Page 45. ISBN 9789780325794.
- "The Traditions of Origin of Ora People owan edo state nigeria". edoworld.net. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- Uluvbigele, Aikoroje, Victoria (2018). A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ORA PEOPLE IN EDO STATE NIGERIA - Softcover. Independently published. pp. Page 1 to 4. ISBN 9781983385193.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Leonie, Pihama (March ,2024). Ora. Huia Publishers (published March 2010). pp. Page 56. ISBN 9781775506928.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - "Benin City and Edo culture, pure Nigerian history - Kumakonda". 2023-05-07. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- Henige, David (2010). History in Africa. Cambridge University Press. pp. Page 2. eISSN 1558-2744. ISSN 0361-5413.