Ijo
Americannoun
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a member of an Indigenous people of the Niger delta in southern Nigeria.
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the Niger-Congo language of the Ijo.
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Their mother, Mrs. Ijo, feeling unwell, had checked herself into a hospital that morning.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2018
PALORINYA, Uganda — On a pale dirt road in the Palorinya refugee camp in northern Uganda, Raida Ijo clung to her 16-year-old son, Charles Abu.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2018
A Red Cross tracer then set out to locate each woman, one by one, and found the correct Raida Ijo on the fifth attempt.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2018
Whilst I was in the Ijo country I carefully studied their Ju-Ju, as I had been told they were great believers in, and practisers of Ju-Ju-ism.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
In this territory is the once far-famed city of Benin, where lived the king, to whom the Jakri, the Sobo, and the Ijo tribes paid tribute.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
This I am inclined to dispute; I think they were a coast tribe like the Ijos.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
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