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SUMMARY
As a history of inter-group relations among the Ijaw and Ugborodo peoples of middle belt region of Nigeria before 1900, what has been attempted here is really a survey of their inter-group contact. The available findings in this study support the detailed history of their socio-economic and political relations in the pre-colonial time. It is however, important to draw attention once again to a few aspects of this survey. Firstly, it is clear that the unit of operations among the Ijaw and Ugborodo were very small. For most of them the clan was the highest level of political organization. Even for the kingdoms of Ijaw and Ugborodo, the component parts were not well knitted together, and it is an autonomous group. The family was the known unit of operation and brought members together closely. Secondly, there was a great deal of interaction largely as result of trade, the people of Ijaw were in touch with the people of Ugborodo, and trade ensured among them. They travelled on foots, by canoes, and displayed their wares especially on their market days but as for the Ugborodo which was on urban centre trade took place there at any time. They also engaged in selling from each other clan slaves during the period of the slave trade. Indeed a map of modern Nigeria showing the various roots of trade in this period the people who now make up Nigeria and Delta State are not removed from the other as it sometimes thought and publicly asserted.
