Obolo (African people)
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Name (Latin)
Obolo (African people)
Other forms of name
Andone (African people)
Andoni (African people)
Andonni (African people)
Doni (African people)
Dony (African people)
Ebi-Obolo (African people)
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Ethnology Nigeria
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q7075271
Library of congress:
sh 94001098
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 93-234043: Ejituwu, N.C. A history of Obolo, 1991:p. xi (Obolo (Ebi-Obolo, Dony, Doni, Andoni))
- Ethnologue:p. 289 (Obolo (Andoni, Andone, Andonni) Nigeria)
- Voegelin lang.:p. 74 (Andoni (Obolo))
Wikipedia description:
The Obolo people, also known as the Andoni or Doni, is an ethnic group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Obolo people are of Ijaw ansestry and are primarily found in Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State. They are also present in the states of Cross River, Abia, and Enugu. The Obolo occupy the longest stretch of the Cross River Basin of the Niger Delta mangrove belt, which also houses the largest oil and gas deposits in the Gulf of Guinea.
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