URHOBO IN PRE-COLONIAL TIMES

An intergroup relation is the relations among states, covering the political, cultural, economic and other relations in their formal and informal dimensions and diversities. Intergroup relations include all international phenomena, all transactions whether involving the state or ordinary individuals across state boundaries. The Pre- colonial societies were so interwoven that the actions of one affect the other. Intergroup relation is a recent and popular theme in the Africa historiography. The subject is not only peculiar to the western world alone, but prevalent in Africa and also amidst numerous ethnic groups in Nigeria. Diverse ethnic group in Nigeria engaged in some forms of relations at one point or the other, either through treaties, peaceful mean, diplomacy, conflict or war and trade, whichever means this relationship or interaction is built, intergroup relation existed and it is a continuous process in as much, humans interact and co-operate in the international system.