This is the whole record, set out to be printed and bound. Everything on this platform depends on a bill being paid; paper does not. Print a copy for the compound, and one for whoever keeps the family’s papers.
Amama · Owere Ede-Oballa
The record of the kindred
Nsukka Local Government Area
Enugu State, Nigeria
Printed 28 July 2026
What this copy contains. 18 people — the founding generations and those long departed. The living members of the kindred are not in this copy, because it was printed by somebody the family has not yet confirmed. A verified member printing the same page gets the whole record.
Names in this record are not surnames in the English sense. They are the line itself, written out. Ugwu Onah Nwa Ezugwu Nwa Aroke reads as Ugwu, son of Onah, son of Ezugwu, son of Aroke — so a person’s name already contains their descent, and the deeper a name runs, the further back it reaches.
Nwa is “child of”. Where a name in this book is unfamiliar, read it from the left: the first word is the person, and everything after it is the road back to Areji Amoke, who founded Amama.
Children are grouped by their mother’s house, not simply under their father. Where a man married more than one wife, each wife’s house is set out separately, because that is the distinction the family itself is organised by: children of one mother are nwanne; children of the same father by different mothers are nwanna. They are not the same relationship and this record does not flatten them into one.
Where the record does not know something, it says so rather than guessing. A person whose sex was never written down is not assumed to be a son. A death that was never dated is not given a date. The gaps are listed at the back of this book on purpose.
By generation from Areji Amoke. The name in brackets is the father, where the record holds one.
18 people, alphabetically, with the generation each belongs to.
0 questions were open on the day this was printed. They are set out here because a book that presents itself as finished asks nothing of anybody. This one is asking.
Each is worked out from the record itself. Answer one and it leaves the list — and the next printing of this book is that much truer than the one you are holding.
Set down from the family record compiled in 2015, and kept current since on a platform built for this kindred. Every name here was transcribed from that document or given by a member of the family; none was inferred, and none was invented.
The names are set in Oyi Display, a typeface drawn for this record so that Igbo diacritics — ị, ọ, ụ, ṅ, and the tone marks above them — are set correctly rather than approximated with whatever a system font happens to carry.
Printed 28 July 2026 from the record as it stood that day. The record moves; this copy does not. When enough has changed, print another — and keep this one, because a family’s papers are more useful as a series than as a single sheet.
Built by Onah Chukwuemeka Henry, a son of Ụmụ Gwuanyi Oyi, for Henry Onyx Limited.