Review Of Historiographic Survey Of Ikwere Ethnic Group In Rivers State, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.60787/aasd.vol2no2.48Keywords:
History, Ikwerre History, Studies, Literature ReviewAbstract
Although there exists a body of literature on histories of Nigeria, southern Nigeria and the Niger Delta, those of the Ikwerre was subsumed as a pan - Igbo nation, and have either been mentioned in passing or neglected entirely by scholars. This article therefore, resonates with the call for overall historical studies of the African societies by K.O. Dike (1980:19) when he avers “the priority of the African historian at present time should be wide spread in-depth historical studies of African societies, large and small to provide us with the data we seek as basis for generalization and theories”. Obaro Ikimi, (1972: xxi) posits that such studies would make for a mutual understanding of the various groups as it will make the history of “Nigeria a little more complete than it has hitherto been”. This article is, therefore, an attempt to fill this gap. This paper surveyed fifty works that are of interest to scholars of Ikwerre history.
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