Ogidi is an Igbo-speaking town and the headquarters of Idemili North Local Government area, Anambra State, Nigeria.

[1] It has an estimated population of 70,000[2] people and share boundaries with neighbouring towns like Abatete, Eziowelle, Ṅkpọr, Ụmụnnachị, Ụmụoji, Ogbụnike and Ụmụdiọka.

Notable People The town is the birthplace of internationally known author Chinua Achebe, the foremost in Nigeria.

[13] Inwelle married and had a son in 1611 named Ogidi (meaning strong pillar because he was a great warrior).

In the period after the colonial pacification of Ogidi, the Igweship derived ultimately from non-hereditary appointment as Native Court by the colonial administration in Onitsha Province which was Conferred on Walter Okerelu Amobi (Nwatakwochaka) of the Amobi family, Ụmụ Udene, Uru Ogidi.

[22] He was one of the first people to encounter the English Church missionaries and embrace their religion when they arrived in Onitsha through the River Niger.

[21] His son, Igwe Walter Okafor Amobi I of Ogidi, had an opportunity to learn from Christian education and culture.

A wealthy and prosperous noble, he was appointed as a Political Agent of Queen Victoria's Royal Niger Company in 1898;[24] he commanded a contingent of soldiers.

[25] As Igwe, Amobi I was instrumental in establishing peaceful and mutually beneficial contact between the Royal Niger Company and the people of Ogidi and the greater Igbo hinterland.

During this period, he was invested with the princely and ducal title of "Ozo", in recognition of his successes against Portuguese raiders striking inland from the Niger Delta, and indigenous soldiers attacking from provinces to the north.

As Igwe Amobi II of Ogidi, he later represented the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria at the coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom in 1937.