Uzuakoli is an area in Abia State of Eastern Nigeria that includes several villages.
It has been home to a Methodist College, a large market, clandestine slave trading, a leprosy settlement,[1] Ila Oso Festival,[2] and conflict.
One of the first Methodist missionaries there was Bernard Batty, whose sons attended Elmfield College in York.
[1] The University of California has a photograph of Methodist missionaries in Uzuakoli in 1924.
[4] In 1964, students of Methodist College of Uzuakoli wrote a short history of the area.