How a powerful oracle once ruled southeastern Nigeria.

Ajouté : 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Not far from the kingdom of Nri, the Aro Confederacy emerged in what is now southeastern Nigeria in the 17th century. The Confederacy was not a kingdom in the traditional sense, but rather a loose political and religious coalition of various towns and villages who had aligned themselves with the Aro oracle. Thus, the Confederacy's roots can be traced back to when the Aro people, who belong to the Igbo ethnic group, established a powerful oracle at the sacred city of Arochukwu. This oracle, known as Ibini Ukpabi, became central to the Confederacy's rise to power.