PRE-COLONIAL

This research work focuses and seeks to achieve the goal of explaining and analyzing the pre-colonial past of the Ibusa community since its foundation. Even though much attempts have not been made to give a vivid and clear-cut description of the rich culture of these distinct Igbo group, it is evident that the Ibusa community had an organized pattern and way of doing things before their interactions and colonial dominations by the Europeans. Ibusa as an Igbo community in Delta State was born out of some certain migrations that took place several years as far back as 1450. These movements formed the present day Anioma group as identified by Onuejeogwu who was supported by Egwu.1 Ibusa is a classic example of bipartite social structure formed by two different settlement histories occurring at fairly close intervals. Ibusa thus is a federation of two autonomous communities that have different origins.2 It is a town situated between the Igbo and Edo. It is also a town lying in the midst of people claiming to have both Igbo and Edo blood in them. This is the situation Ibusa, a town now situated in today’s Delta State; south-southern part of the country has found itself geographically

Conflict is as old as man itself, this is because two people cannot be the same and there is bound to be individual differences and peculiarities: the cause of conflict is thus underlined by these and other factors which influence human society from time to time. One of the fundamental challenges that have confronted
man in social history is that of the inevitability of conflict and disagreement in human relations. The reality posed by the challenge of conflict has more often than not, resulted into social problems, especially when such conflict are not well and properly managed before degenerating into violent confrontations. Conflict is part of human life, every society can be engulfed in one form of conflict or the other since it characterize human interaction at the level of the individual, group, community and nation.