The African Heritage.

Born in Umuduruoha, Amaigbo, Imo state in the year 1821, his actual birth name is unknown, and also the identity of his true parents. After he was kidnapped and taken to Bonny Island, Rivers state, he was renamed Jubo Jubogha by his first master, and later resold to Chief Alali, the head of the Opobu Manila Group of Houses. It was here that the British who couldn’t pronounce his name properly gave him the name “Jaja”.