Emeka Esogbue

  The Enuani People in Perspective By Emeka Esogbue Enuani is one of the subgroups that make up Anioma with Ika and Ndokwa as the other two. It is the combination of these three subgroups that make up Anioma. As a whole, Anioma is a group of people geographically located in Delta State, South-South Geo-political Zone of Nigeria. Since the history of the creation of what is now Nigeria by the British, the people of Enuani have not only had their destiny tied together as one but given different names at different times depending on the geographical location they are made to find themselves. Incidentally, together with the wider Anioma nation, they have occupied the defunct Western Region, Midwestern Region, Edo State, and now Delta State and are proposing Anioma State where they hope to be situated in the South-South of the country. The Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko, Itsekiri, and Anioma are the five major ethnic groups that makeup Delta State, a state created by the Ibrahim Badamosi Bab...