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Ebisuote is not a professional work of historiography, a work of scientific research and objectivity. It is a personal account of a joint life experience, emotional, coming from the heart. This brief story of Nigerian Historian Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa and his grandmother Gboribusuote is, therefore, simply a memorial to a shared life, in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.

The Izon of the Niger Delta is a global history of the Izon, Ijo, or Ijaw people from their homelands in the Niger Delta, through Nigeria, the West and Central African coastlands, and in the Africa diaspora into Europe, the America's and the Caribbean. It is a preliminary study which raises questions and opens ground for further research. The book provides chapters that take an overview of issues on the environment of the Niger Delta, an analy...

The Nembe counting system might have been fundamentally based on the arrangement of the digits that makes up the human fingers and toes because these digits constitute the most handy calculating device available to any human being.

The first title in a planned series of classic texts, written and published in Africa, on the history and culture of the Niger Delta. Long out of print, this book brings together oral traditional evidence and all other available historical material including the work of the eminent historian of the Niger Delta, Kenneth Owuka Dike. The study is an attempt to reconstruct the early history of the Ijo people of the Niger Delta, from the nineteenth...

This study poses the question: how did the people of the eastern Niger Delta prepare their youth for leadership? It then presents a detailed study of the Yaa cultural tradition of the Ogoni from pre-colonial to present times, their history and politics, and considers the perspective of youth leadership and training. The study illustrates how the Yaa cultural tradition determined social class structures, discouraged anti-social behaviour, and i...