Igogoro is one of the constituent villages/localities of Enugu-Ezike (the headquarters town of Igbo-Eze North LGA). It participates in the area’s rich Northern-Igbo cultural traditions (notably various masquerade forms such as Omabe and Mgbedike), community rites and the palm-wine economy that remains important to livelihoods. The settlement is rural, with schools and local markets serving residents. Academia
Local histories collected from elders and a community brief (written in Igbo) trace the broad origin of Enugu-Ezike to a progenitor called Ezike Oba (a prince/figure associated in local genealogies with Benin/Idah migrations). Over time the original lineage split into multiple sub-lineages and settlements; modern Enugu-Ezike is made of three dozen (c. 33–36) named villages — Igogoro is named explicitly among these. Colonial-era reorganization introduced warrant chiefs and later modern chieftaincy systems; twentieth-century changes (education, road links, post-war resettlement) shaped the community’s institutions. For the village-level narrative the best primary write-up I found is a local—Igbo—history PDF that lists the genealogies, festivals and social practices. Academia+1
Community documents and listings use the name as a toponym without explaining its root. (If you want a local-linguistic reading, a field interview or an annotated Igbo-language source would be required.)
Coordinates: 6.99071°N, 7.47305°E
The masquerade arts of Enugu-Ezike — often presented most visibly during the community’s Omabe celebrations — are a living system of performance, sculpture, ritual and social regulation that link the living, the ancestors and the local moral order. Masquerades appear as costumed, masked figures whose behavior, music and visual language encode history, law, entertainment and spiritual functions for the Mba-Waawa / Nsukka-area communities around Enugu-Ezike.
