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Umudioka is a town in Dunukofia Local Government Area in Anambra State, Southeastern Nigeria. [1] It is made up of 10 villages, and shares boundaries with neighbouring towns as follows: Ogidi, Ogbunike, Umunya, Umunnachi and Ifite Dunu.
List of Villages: Olioba Section: Akpom, Umuezechua, Umuajana and Umuchigbo. Adagbe Section: Uruagu, Umuezekwo, Uruowelle, Umueze, Ugwu and Okpuru. Umudioka is one of the six towns that make up the ancient Dunukofia clan in Anambra state.
HISTORY Umu Dioka means the children of Dioka, the men noted for intricate craft - nka. They were famed for two notable things - esoteric cum herbal healing and facial markings. Their immediate, and even distant, neighbors knew them as intrepid itinerant healers who engaged in travelling to different places to play their trade in the off-farming seasons. The communities that bear the name Umudioka all over Nigeria's South East were established during those adventures in the 18th and 19th centuries. That the town is known as Umudioka Ichi in those days was as a result of how they distinguished their brave and wealthy men through facial marks called ICHI in Igbo.