Onitsha
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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While out fishing with some other women one day, Onitsha Joseph saw oil bubbling to the river’s surface, and knew they had found the source of the spill.Credit...
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2021
The rally, after all, was in Onitsha, a city in eastern Nigeria.
From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2020
It was one of the many stories my grandparents told me about why they chose to return to Onitsha from Turtle Island, after Old New York drowned in the Catastrophe.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2019
St. John Paul II brought Arinze, then the archbishop of Onitsha, Nigeria, to the Vatican in 1985 to head the office for relations with other faiths.
From US News • Oct. 23, 2015
It was Madu who had received word that a thin, tall educated woman had been found wandering in Onitsha.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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