Ututu
by James OkoreEstimated delivery 3-12 business days
Format Paperback
Condition Brand New
Description
Lying in the extreme corner of Igbo land bordering the Cross River is a unique Igbo community called Ututu. The author writes passionately about this community from thirty years of studying the everyday life of the people and eighteen years as the custodian of Ututu tradition and custom i.e., the Eze Ututu. Now a very committed born-again Christian, he makes no case whatsoever for idolatry, nonetheless he firmly believes that it is important to pass down to future generations the unfamiliar and unfathomable facts about the people of Ututu. In addition to his own dogged, albeit exhaustive research are the materials handed over to him by his father late HRH Eze S. N. Okore who ruled the community for thirty-eight years.
This book for the first time unearths previously unknown facts about not just Ututu history but also that of the other Cross River Igbo communities i.e., Ohafia, Ihechiow, Isu and Arochukwu. It illustrates a community with rich, diverse, cultural and historical heritage unsurpassed by that of any other community of Igbo land. Several centuries long before the advent of the British, Ututu community already had an organised system of Traditional Government and Land holding system lain out in modern lines. The author employs his great skill as a master story teller to paint a vivid picture of an Igbo community that symbolises everything that the tribe represents. This is a book for anyone who really desires to learn not just about the Igbo people as a tribe but the true character of the African people before contact was made with the Europeans.
