Ohafia is a country of twenty-six villages in Abia's north-eastern highlands, and its own account begins with warriors: the men were renowned as fighters, they wear the knitted warrior's cap, the Okpu agu, and their war dance, Ikpirikpi Ogu, is danced by age grades today at funerals, festivals and homecomings. Abiriba, inside the same local government, is the traditional Enuda kingdom - "the Small London" - whose foundation the community places in the fourteenth century and whose traders are found in markets across Nigeria and West Africa. The Obu house, the traditional meeting house, is a Nigerian cultural heritage object. The year is carried by the age grades, by the Ekpe and Ọkọnkọ societies, by the Ite-Igbo dance at Ebem and by the Ukpo festival at Nkporo. Photographs, via Wikimedia Commons: The Igwa Mang ceremony at Abiriba - Philipsakwari, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Ite-Igbo dance at Ebem, Ohafia - AID Project, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Obu house at Ohafia - National Commission for Museums and Monuments, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Ohafia war dance - Chinanzagracy, CC BY-SA 4.0. A lead war dancer carrying the Oyaya - TopmanJnr1, CC BY-SA 4.0. The war dance, Ikpirikpi Ogu - Bibiire1, CC BY-SA 4.0. War dancers of Ohafia - Ekaychee, CC BY-SA 4.0. War dancers at Ohafia - Bibiire1, CC BY-SA 4.0. Licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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