Afikpo Organization, Inc as is known now started in the Eastern part of United States of America in the early nineties. There is an association that exists in Nigeria for the Afikpo Township Welfare Association ATWA with branches all through the country of Nigeria. Though we share the same goals and aspirations, we are not directly a branch. We are independent and autonomous in existence. There have been collaborations on a few projects in the past.

However, this Organization, Afikpo Organization, Inc is a spin off a larger organization that was started by Late Mr. Ifeanyichukwu Igwe in Queens New York. The scope of that association/Organization was to include the Old Abakaliki Province of Eastern Nigeria.

 

After Mr. Igwe left us, a few of the Afikpo Indigenes in the area including his widow, Mrs. Nnenne Egwu-Igwe got together at her residence to celebrate the New Yam festival in her back yard for the first time. Present at this occasion were Greg Ota and his family, Dr Austin Eleje and family, Mr. & Mrs. Sunday Echem ,Mr. & Mrs. Agbi Okogeri , Enyinnaya Okogeri and his family, Aloysius Amah and his family, Maduka Inya and a few others. The gathering was so joyous and invigorating that we decided to have another one the following year in New Jersey and invite sons and daughters of AfikpoUSA. At this time the New York/New Jersey had formally incorporated Afikpo Development Association, Inc. Greg Ota was the President, Maduka Inya – Secretary and Agbi Okogeri the Financial Secretary/Treasurer. 

 

Shortly after that, the greater Maryland/Virginia/Washington DC organized themselves under Greater Afikpo Progressive Association (GAPA). A few more New Yam festivals were hosted by this group in Maryland.

 

The association has since born branches in Houston, Texas (Afikpo Family Union).

              

              ORGANISATIONAL FOCUS

The focus right now is how to create awareness in the USA and All over the world about the organization and possibly create zones throughout the country.

Afikpo Organization, Inc has an Executive Branch that decides and governs this not-for-profit organization. In an effort to stay focused and organized there has been several committees created to cater to the areas that are necessary to promote participation, including but not limited to

 Medical Mission,

 Education,

 Culture/Youth,

 Women’s Affairs,

 Membership Outreach

 Ambassadors at-Large

 Recruitment and Retention,

 Constitution Review,

 Fund Raising, to mention a few.

We are also interested in formulating procedures to help one another here in the USA as well as the advancement of our children culturally and educationally, here and at home. We have a constitution that governs the body; however, it is under review and recommendations by the Constitution Review committee and the general body.

We are looking to present a unified and strong organization.

                                                
                    AFIKPO DISTRICT COUNCIL HALL