SOME Nigerian peoples
Date
1993
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Publisher
Ibadan, Oyo State: REX Charles Publication,
Abstract
The Ijo of the Niger Delta; The Efiks and peoples of the Cross River Basin; The early history of the Ibibio people; The Igbo people; Contacts between peoples of the Anambra valley and the Niger — Benue confluence region: An Archaeological perspective; Contacts and interrelations among the peoples of the Benue valley; The Idoma — Alago — Yala people of Nigeria: An historical introduction; The Igala in the pre-colonial Era; Peoples and history in the Benue —Chad corridor; A Profile of Urhobo; Edo traditions of origin; The Yoruba; The peoples of Lokoja.
Description
This special publication represents the first in a series on the cultures and societies of West African peoples. This issue, as the title indicates, treats Some Nigerian People, primarily peoples of southern Nigeria where 'Southern' is used in a strictly geographical, rather than political sense. The conscious tone set for contributions is that of synthesis of what is known. Consequently, the approach is more or less anthropological, rather than strictly historical. All contributors in their distinct styles try to identify who the peoples they treat see themselves to be today; how they consider themselves to have been in the identifiable past, how they conceptualize their beginnings and their progress to the present; who they see as their neighbours and the nature of their relationships with them.