Ethnic Identity Crisis
In recent times, the Anioma people have become piqued with the Igbo of the southeast on whether the Anioma are of Igbo ethnic group or not. The diverse history of origin of the people have made it quite difficult to classify the people and continues to set the people against the Igbo of the southeast so that while the Igbo are of historical views that the people are part of the larger Igbo community, some Anioma have discredited this argument maintaining that it's only the natives of places such as Ibusa (Igbuzo), part of Ogwashi-Uku, Asaba, Akwukwu Igbo, Nsheagu, Abbi, Abala uno, Ewulu, Illa, Ute okpu, Ejeme Kingdom, the Isseles, and Oko are of Igbo ancestry. An argument that the Igbo continually debunk, though the Anioma people speak a dialect of Igbo, some of the communities claim origin to the ancient Benin Kingdom.
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