Edo: Before The Palace, There Was The River – The Historical Case For The Indigenous Ijaws By Yeigagha Henry
Briga News Nigeria History is not written only in palaces, royal courts, and imperial chronicles; it is equally inscribed upon rivers, creeks, ancestral settlements, and the enduring cadence of ancient languages. The history of the Ijaw (Izon) people in what is today Edo State belongs to this older archive. It predates colonial cartography, survives political…