Awo-Omamma

Awo-Omamma is the largest and most populous community in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State, on the Onitsha–Owerri highway roughly 40 miles from Onitsha and 15 miles from Owerri, the state capital. The Njaba River runs through the town and empties into Oguta Lake. According to oral tradition, Awo-Omamma descends from Nri lineage through a figure named Oma, and the town belongs to the Oru clan (the "Umu Oma"), a group of related communities that also includes Arji, Nempi, Eleh, Omuma, Amiri, Mgbidi, Ibiasoegbe, Uburu, Oturu, Amagu, Egbu and Ozara. In the colonial era, Portuguese and later British traders used the Oguta Lake shore route to reach the Igbo hinterland, and Awo-Omamma women were prominent participants in the 1929 Women's War against British-imposed taxation. In the post-World War II period a number of Awo-Omamma sons studied abroad in the US and Britain and returned to invest in the town's development.

Awo-Omamma is reached by road, on the Onitsha–Owerri highway.