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SUMMARY
Pre-colonial Africa has been described inter alia a period of isolation; a dark era wherein no such thing as inter-group relations existed amongst African peoples. So widely was this view propagated by European scholars, that its discountenance has in recent times been a major facet of Nigerian historiography. Numerous Nigerian scholars have devoted enormous effort and resources in seeking to the eventual evaporation of such Euro-centric view of Africa (and indeed, Nigeria). Attempts have been made to disprove the isolation stance of the African peoples by uncovering the various webs of interaction that knitted the people together. Nigeria, not only had a historical past, but one that was highly operational and relevant to the development process of the people before the advent of the Europeans. To think dependent societies can exist without having some form of interactions exposes the myopia of these European “scholars”.
In Africa’s remote past, societies depended on one another. Differentials in geographical and resource endowment, for instance, necessitated the spinning of network of contacts and intermingling relationships amongst the peoples. the Ukwauni and the Urhobos manifested such contacts wherein a wide range of networks and links flourished.
