Identity
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The Igbo people have had heavily fragmented and politically independent communities. The origin of Igbo people is not without its controversies. With most subgroups offering their own versions of their root. Igbos have strong relationship with their neighbours and share allot of similarities in culture
Due to the effects of migration and the Atlantic slave trade, there are descendant historical Igbo populations in countries such as Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, as well as outside Africa; many African Americans and Afro Caribbeans are assumed to be partially of Igbo descent.
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