POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND CONFLICTS

The central theme of this work is the political leadership and conflicts in Ebiraland, Nigeria during the period 1900-2003. The work examines the dynamics of political leadership in Ebiraland from the precolonail through the colonial upto the postcolonial periods. The rationalization behind this exercise is premised on the prevailing circumstances where the people are either described as lawless or people without leaders. Intrigues and political factions characterised Ebira poltical process with a regretable scenario of tripolar divide of clanish chauvinism, political bigotry and cultural nuisance. Essentially the work examines the dynamics of political leadership and conflicts in Ebiraland from precolonial upto colonial with fundamental issues like the people's socio economic structure, native administrative sysytem poltics of exclusion and inclusion, conflicts and violence and the attendant consequeces on the socio-poltical millieu of the people.