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ONITSHA WOMEN

The Onitsha Igbo (Ibo), whose traditional community is situated on the banks of the Niger River in Southeastern Nigeria, are a linguistic subgroup of the over twenty million Igbo‐speaking peoples. In 1962 (when I conducted my dissertation research), the city of Onitsha was estimated to have a population of 80,000 persons, of which possibly 10,000 were indigenes, i.e., members of localized patrilineages in the Onitsha Inland Town community. The majority of the rest were non‐Onitsha Igbo‐speaking peoples, primarily from the areas to the east and south. When I visited Onitsha in 1992, some reside…