The Historical Antecedent Of Uzere People

THE HISTORICAL ANTECEDENT OF UZERE PEOPLECHAPTER ONE Introduction    Uzere formerly  known as “Uzei is located in lsoko South Local Government Area of Delta State of Nigeria – Uzere is a clan of its own with about 9,613 inhabitants according to 1991 population census. It is one of the earliest clans that constituted the nineteen clans in Isoko land. While some people believed that the Uzere people originated from the Benin kingdom, others disagree1.Obaro Ikime, Professor of history at the university of Ibadan, state “if there is any aspect of the history of the various peop…