Akah Communities

Umuaka town is made up of ten communities. These communities descended from the ten sons of Akah. They occupied an area that is approximately 30km square. Each community has a defied boundary with each other. Aparently, the ten sons of Akah were not from the same mother. The locations of the ten communities also indicate their ancestral maternal relationship to one another.

The Amazona communities that comprise Umuele, Ibele, Amakor and Obeakpu, are believed to come from the same maternity and they share common boundary with each other. Uba and Isiozi share the same maternity and they live in close visinity, Ugbele and Ohewe came from the same maternity. Amiyi, Achara and Obinwanne has separate maternity each.

However, irrespective of their divers maternity, the descendants of Akah act seemlessly as people from the same maternity, they stand for each other and aswell act as their brothers keeper in any location they find themselves around the world. This made it possible for them to remain as one autonomous community until recently, when the state government decided to create new autonomous communities from large communities in Imo State.

The following new autonomous communities were created from the old Umuaka community: Isiozi Akah, Ugbele Akah, Amakor, Umuele/Obeakpu, Ibele. Amiyi, Uba, Achara and Amafor are still under Umuaka autonomous community. Moreover, most of these autonomous communities have also been assigned a traditional rulers, who are as follows: His Royal Highness, Eze A.C. A Ojinnaka, the Ezesinobi 111 of Umuaka; His Royal Highness, Eze G. C. Agwubuo, the Ozoano 1 of Amazanor (late); His Royal Highness, Eze Jude Nwachukwu, the Isimmiri 1 of Isiozi Akah; His Royal Highness, Eze Rufus Anyanwu of Ibele; His Royal Highness, Eze Innocent Meremikwu, the Ako of Amakor; and His Royal Highness, Eze Peter Ukonu, the Akpaka 1 of Ugbele Akah. They represents their respective communities at the local government and state level. This is in accordance to the Nigeria system of governance in which the federal and state government extend their leadership to the grassroot via the traditional leadership in the rural communities. Click the links on your left to view more information about the communities.