Ibagwa-Aka is an Igbo community located North of the great University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
It is the headquarters of Igbo Eze South Local Government of Enugu State, Nigeria.
Each village is headed by the eldest man in the village called Onyishi The community is more or less a metropolitan town in rural surroundings, with wide serving social amenities including schools, churches, mosques, moderate health facilities, a market, a police station, etc.
With its flamboyant Nkwo Market, and owing to the strategic position of the town, it serves as the commercial nerve centre for most of the surrounding communities in the Igboeze region, with some major importance for the people of the Kogi State boundary town of Akpanya.
Notable among the migrant merchants arriving at Ibagwa Aka were Nupe horse sellers who migrated from Bida, Niger state in 1899.