Okoroji House Museum

External view of Chief Okoroji House

The Okoroji House Museum or Okoroji House, (Igbo: Ulo Nta Okoroji, Ogbuti Okoroji), is a historic house and museum located in Ujari, a village in Arochukwu, Abia State, Eastern Nigeria.[1] The house was declared a national momument in 1972 by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.[2]

History and structure

The house was built during the 17th century by Maazi Okoroji Oti, a local chief and slave merchant who was active during the trans-atlantic slave trade.[1] The house is made of mud with its roof made of aluminium zinc. The interior house and showcase various sacred shrine objects, historical artifacts, slave chains, brass manillas, swords and guns.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Uguru, Okorie (27 June 2015). "Okoroji House Gateway to the past". The Nation News. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. ↑ G. Ugo Nwokeji (13 September 2010). The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-1-139-48954-6.
  3. ↑ Zbigniew R. Dmochowski (1990). An Introduction to Nigerian Traditional Architecture: South-Eastern Nigeria, the Igbo-speaking Areas. Ethnographica Limited. ISBN 978-0-905788-28-9.
  4. ↑ "Chief Okoroji's House, Arochukwu". www.zodml.org. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

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