BETWEEN AWASIA AND NWANZE VERSIONS: A CRITICAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF OKO CLAN OF DELTA STATE By Emeka Esogbue (Pen Master) The Oko clan of today, geographically situated in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State, is one of the Anioma communities with its history rarely in print or in public assessment for researchers interested in the history of the clan to take scholarly advantage of, amounting to controversies, one of which is that which raged between both analysts of clan as discoursed in this piece. The people are located close to Asaba and Ibusa that are neighbouring communities but Odifulu shares boundary with Abala-Oshimili in Ndokwa East. The Oko people are riverine, lying exactly on the mouth of the River Niger and they speak Enuani version of Igbo being a dialectic categorization of Asaba, Ibusa and Akwukwu-Igbo communities in near exactness. All the Oko communities are ancestrally related and also share homogeneous culture in every respect. Alth...
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