Communities were protected from raids and other disturbances by the area's eastern flank along the Imo River, which borders Ezi na Ihite.
Around this time, Dr. Rogers Stewart, a British man who took a wrong turn on his bicycle, was captured and killed by indigenes in a case of mistaken identity.
[3] The British subsequently launched the 1906 Ahiara Punitive Expedition, led by Captains Brian Douglas and Harold Hastings, to begin reprisals in the region and enforce control.
[1] However, in 1927, the colonial government introduced taxation, tax increases in 1929 were met with fierce opposition by the Igbo population, and the Women's War began in protest of social and economic oppression under British rule.
Regional courts were then established in Itu (for Ezinihitte); Afor Enyiogugu (for Agbaja); Obohia (for Ekwerazu); Orie-Ahiara (for Ahiara); and Uvuru (for Oke-Uvuru) in response to the home rule movement of the 1930s.
[2] On June 12, 1941, Mbaise became a political and administrative federation of five clans: Agbaja, Ekwerazu, Ahiara, Ezinihitte, and Oke-Uvuru.
Ezinihitte Mbaise remained by itself except for Obiangwu and Umuohiagu, two small villages which joined the Ngor-Okpala from the Agbaja region.
[5] Music is played on the wood xylophone, hand piano, long short and slit drums, pots, gongs, bamboo horn and calabash.
D. I. Nwoga, who brought an abigbo group to the United States during the 1980s, wrote that the musicians and dancers philosophize, criticize, admonish and praise with their performances.