In a narrative by the reverend Prof. Chinua Achebe, he opined that because of
the natural apprehension to creating an all powerful individual as evinc
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Find the meaning of Igbo names
/Ágbàlà/
Gender: m
1. *An entity associated with Chukwu
2. The Shrine or the Oracle of this entity. A dialectal var. of Agbara
*Onwuejeogwu suggests that it has to do with the procreative aspect of Chi. Basden associated it with ọmụmụ which has to do with the fertility in women- this could explain the term "Agbala nwanyi"– An Examination of the Nri-Igbo Concept of CHI in the Light of Oral Traditions (1990) by Ogonna Chibuzo Agu