Origins of Uneme peoples

Why is there a need to know about roots and culture? because, as an Igbo proverb says, 'He who does not know where the rain began to beat Him, will not know where He is going' I have no doubt that many of the problems we face as present day Africans can be attributed to not having a sense of origin like so many others do. Most of us only know about things after the 'White-Men' came.

The need for this is to correctly identify and authoritatively locate the roots of the Uneme People. These would take us back to years before 1370 A.D. So far the old theories which were established concerning the Uneme people are;

1. Origin from Heaven.
2. Ife Origin.
3. Origin from a small district between Lagos and Benin
4. Migration from the Igun area of Benin
5. Origin in Obadan near Benin.

I'm not going to go into what these different theories put forward at the moment, they are all interesting and I would post separately for each of them.

Now, I would introduce you to the New theories of Origins and Migrations of the Uneme. The New theory can be classified into two categories;

1. Origin in the hills of the ancient Akoko-Edo area
2. Origin in the North-East of the Niger-Benue Confluence area.