Arochukwu

Arochukwu

also spelled  Arochuku,  

      town, Abia state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the road from Calabar to Umuahia. Arochukwu was the headquarters of the Aro, an Igbo (Ibo) subgroup that dominated southeastern Nigeria in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was the seat of the sacred Chuku shrine, the source of a much-feared oracle (called Long Juju by the Europeans) that acted as a judge for the Igbo supreme deity (Chuku) and that, as used by Aro middlemen, served as the major recruiter for the slaves sent to the port of Bonny (Ubani) for sale. The shrine and power of the oracle were destroyed by the British in their campaigns against the Aro people in 1900–02. Arochukwu is now a market centre and the site of a teacher-training college.

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