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c1957/58, something happened in a village, Anohia, in Afikpo in what‘s today Ebonyi State. A large portion of the population converted to Islam. They were converted by a native, Okpani Egwani, who‘d traveled to Senegal, found Islam, & changed his name to Alhaji Ibrahim
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“In 1957,Okpani Egwani,who‘d been abroad for many years suddenly returned. No one had heard from him for long time. It is said he was thought dead & that burial services had been performed for him. He returned a Moslem with a small following of Moslem strangers from the north...”
There’s a fascinating paper on what happened, published by SIMON OTTENBERG of the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1971, and titled: “A Moslem Igbo Village.” I stumbled on it recently.

Here is the full pdf: persee.fr/docAsPDF/cea_0…
A little further digging threw up this 2014 story that features the son of that man who brought Islam to Anohia/Afikpo. Sheikh Daud Nwagui is Headmaster of the primary section of a school referred to as “the best Islamic secondary school in Nigeria.” newsexpressngr.com/news/5362-Igbo…
Link appears to be doing one-kain: try this persee.fr/doc/cea_0008-0…
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