The conundrum surrounding the ancestry of the Anioma people have reached its peak with the Igbo with claims and counterclaims. As the Igbo historians uphold arguments to support their claims and the Anioma people counterclaim attachments to any existing ethnic group in the country, this article will discuss such claims and counterclaims.
The Anioma people are geographically located in Delta State of Nigeria although some of their communities can be found in other states such as Edo, Anambra, Rivers and Imo States. The word "Anioma" is a coinage and not a name as several historians misleadingly understand and was made by Chief Dennis Osadebe.
The history of agitation of the
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