IGWE OCHA: The Forgotten Trade City That Bound Igbo & Ibibio Before Colonial Lines
By NINI NDUONOFIT-AKOH PORT Harcourt did not begin as a British invention. Long before it was stamped into maps in 1913, the land was already mapped in the imagination of Eastern traders. They called it Igwe Ocha — “the White High Place.” It was a name inspired not by myth, but by observation: dazzling white […]
