Our Dynasty

A custodian of culture

Uncle Eloka (Idoga) and the likes so much to be written about this great people and heritage your piece of information will do as documentaries for our generations unborn to read and know.

 Our Lovely Royal Family "a na m ekene unu niile"   

This is to preserve our family history for the young generation coming up, biographies, pictures,write-ups,  autobiography can be emailed for publishing to my

 Email: okwesaanayo06@gmail.com

 or whatsapp +2347031941781.

What a large Royal family scattered all over the globe. Long live our Great Umu Atamaya Dynasty. I stand to be corrected or called to order.

Some facts

Ossomala kingdom is a food basket; the area called Ogbaro to which Ossomala belongs is a food producing area. The basic or grassroots occupation of our people is fishing and farming, but because of the riverine nature of the place, the Europeans passed and went ahead to trade on the Niger.

You remember the Royal Niger Company; its operations began from this area. We therefore, had contacts very early with the Europeans. Just like Warri and Sapele, and all the other areas, where you had river transport in the days of yore. Those were the days the Europeans were coming, colonising and evangelising. In those days that we traded with them, we exchanged goods, and most importantly, we got education.

Education is the biggest industry in Ossomala. As early as the 16th to 18th century, we had contact with Europeans, and one of the earliest missionaries among them were those from the Roman Catholic Mission and the Anglican Mission. Bishop Ajayi Crowther, if I remember well, once passed through here. The Roman Catholics and the Anglicans were the two basic educational pioneers in this place.

The title, Atah Manyan, which you said does not sound like an Igbo title, simply put, is a combination of Igala and Jukun words meaning “Atah the Great.” Our progenitors were of Igala and Jukun descents. Hence, the title Atah Manyan.