The Emevor People: My Personal Memoirs and Jottings

This book is an exposition of the sociocultural past present and futuristic preview of the Emevor-speaking people of the Niger-Delta Nigeria. The work is the product of the authors reminiscences and introspection into the historiography geography economy language education and the multifarious rich sociocultural milieu of the people. It deals with the traditional customs beliefs totems astronomy time and event reckoning marriages traditional religions ancestral worship and Christology oracle divination obituary and obsequies initiation into Ehwa womanhood rites and sabbatical fattening of brides festivals identity of people governance heroes/heroines and modern pacesetters and the changes provoked by modernity. By using simple language graphic descriptions and vivid and clear explanations of the phenomena and events the author has taken the reader through the maze as it were with the needed compass to navigate through these labyrinths.