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The Aboh Kingdom was an organized economic, military, and political power that once controlled the Delta Province. It had ambassadors and envoys and related with other European powers. Aboh was what Portugal and Spain called a great and majestic African country-state, but the British ethnographic classification conflated and reduced the sovereignty and might of the kingdom.
Now, while Ijo, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Ukwuani and others retain their nationhood today, Aboh’s distinctive nationhood became rewritten, conflated and became ethnically merged with other groups under administrative convenience and cultural assumptions of the British Empire.
“How then did Aboh, which functioned as a full-fledged country in the international sense of the precolonial Delta world, become ethnically classified by the British under other existing peoples?”
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