The Igbo On the western side of the Lower Niger River live some Igbo speaking groups. Their social history can be traced to the fifteen or tenth century AD, when some of their ancestors, whom original homelands in the Anambra valley and the Orlu and Isuama areas, began to respond to the ecological crisis that was afflicting their hometowns. By crossing the Niger River to seek for better farming and hunting grounds. In what was soon to become the western part of the Igbo culture area. They came in small numbers, bringing with them certain notions of social and political organization, which guided them, as they established their new settlem