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Title: | Succession in two Urhobo kingdoms: a study in socio-political integration |
Author: | Otite, Onigu |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | Odù: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies |
Issue: | 9 |
Pages: | 80-94 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Okpe polity Ughelli polity |
Abstract: | The Urhobo (Mid-western State of Nigeria) constitute twenty socially and territorially constiguous units. Each of these units is defined in terms of separate governmental and political structures and processes within a locally peculiar socio-cultural milieu. This article concerns two of the twenty Urhobo social units: the Okne kingdom which is now part of the Western Urhobo District Council area and maintains no tradition of kingship from Benin Kingdom, and Ughelli kingdom, a constituent part of the Central Urhobo District Council area, with tradition of kingship traceable to the kingdom of Benin. Ref. |