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Amaekpu is one of the 26 villages of Ohafia in Abia State of Eastern Nigeria. It is an Igbo speaking region. It is on a Latitude 5’30’, 5 N and Longitude 7’45’, 7’55’E . Amaekpu Ohafia is bordered to the Northern hemisphere by Elu, the ancestral capital of Ohafia. And on the western side by Amangwu Ohafia, another village in Ohafia and on the Eastern hemisphere by Okagwe Ohafia. It is however bordered by the eastern side by Edda in Ebonyi State.
Historically, Amaekpu was one of the earliest villages of Ohafia after Elu and Ebem. It was founded by Ofali Agwu. The village is made of sections and many compounds all inter-connected and inter-related. There are a lot of historical and tourist interest to any visitor to the village.
1400s
• Migration begins
1500s
• Arrival in Ohafia
1800
• Founding by Ofali Agwu
1900s
• Colonial Period
1920s
• Missionary Era
1955
• Civil War
Achichi Square is a deeply sacred and historic site located in Elu, the traditional and ancestral capital village of Ohafia in Abia State, Nigeria. Oral tradition links this landmark to the very naming and origin of the Ohafia clan.
THE HISTORY OF OHAFIA
Historically, Ohafia people left Andoli and settled in Isi-Eke,from where they left one night, when they heard the rattling
sound of calabashes. The sound was interpreted to mean that they were being invaded which led to a commotion, as some of them escaped toward Ngodo and others went towards Isuochi.
At one point, some of them headed towards Abam leading the group heading to Abam, was a man known as Ezeama Atita, and two sons called Uduma Ezeama and Onyereobi Ezeama. When they got to Abam, Onyereobi’s wife, who was heavy with pregnancy, could no longer walk.
He, therefore, remained in Abam with his pregnant wife, while the group continued on the journey. In the present location of Ohafia, at a place called Ugwumgbo, Ezeama Atita, and his second son, Uduma, settled. After many years, their offspring established the 26 villages that make up today’s Ohafia.
The ancestral headquarters of Ohafia is in Elu Ohafia. Each village is governed by an eze ogo. All the eze ogo’s come together to form the Eze Ogo-in-Council, which, with the amala, decide how the community is to be governed. The overall traditional ruler, Udumeze, who lives in Elu Ohafia, intervenes only when there is a matter between an eze ogo and a subject
BELOW ARE OHAFIA VILLAGES AND THEIR FOUNDERS;
26 OHAFIA VILLAGES AND THEIR FOUNDERS.
1 Abia: Ebere Ukwu Etete
2 Akanu: Nna Ukwu Omezue
3 Amaekpu: Ofali Agwu
4 Amangwu: Udu ma Nnagu
5 Amankwu: Essien Aru
6 Amuke: Ama Ezema
7 Amuma: Uka Etim
8 Asaga: Ukpai Ezema Atita [Okwara]
9 Ebem: Kpoke Mgbo Enine.
10 Elu: Uduma Ezema
11 Ezi Afor: Ukpai Uma
12 Ihenta ibina: Eke Uma
13 Isi-ugwu: Uduma Ali
14 Nde Anyaorie: Nna Kalu Iche Okorie
15 Nde Aku: Iroha Ogwu
16 Nde Amogu: Amogu Egbuta
17 Nde Ibe: Ibe Okwara
18 Nde Okala: Okala Iro
19 Nde Orieke: Orieke Okwara
20 Nde Uduma Awoke: Uduma Awoke Mbila
21 Nde Uduma Ukwu: Uduma Ukwu
22 Nkwebi: Ibe
23 Oboro: Awa Okoro
24 Okagwe: Dibia Ete
25 Okon: Uma Elem
26 Ufiele: Ukpai Uma
