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...

Have you read the 55-page journal - A Study of the Origins and Migrations of Anioma Settlements written by Emeka Esogbue?' It was released to the public in 2015 and published by Carophem Communications Ltd, Ibadan, Nigeria with ISBN 978-978-53749-2-6 This well-researched journal speaks on the Anioma people geographically located in Delta State, Nigeria but the research is extended to include other Anioma settlements now located in Anambra, Imo, Rivers and Edo states of the nation. The Anioma people live within the context of shared understanding, history, culture and identity and within the context of shared political administration. Like other people, they have also evolved distinct civilization. They share common boundary; have inter-married; traded and allied in battles against common enemies. Th e Anioma people united to go to battle with the British. The Ubulu clan battled Benin in what is now known in history as 'Adesuwa War'. Igbanke, Ozubulu, Onitsha, ...