This discourse will commence with the present administrative structure called Rivers State as it birthed Bayelsa States and predates Delta,Akwa Ibom,Cross Rivers and Edo Sates. It will help to fill the gap ocassioned by the absence of history tutelage in our schools.

We wish to lean on history or the story of our yesterday to interpret today and a quote from Alan Woods 2016 summarizes our desire on the rudimentary aspects of Historical Materialism :

"..This scientific method enables us to understand history, not as a series of unconnected and unforeseen incidents, but rather as part of a clearly understood and interrelated process. It is a series of actions and reactions which cover politics, economics and the whole spectrum of social development. To lay bare the complex dialectical relationship between all these phenomena is the task of historical materialism. Humankind constantly changes nature through labour, and in so doing, changes itself."

We will try and answer the following questions  

•Who are we ?

•Where did we come from?

•Origin & History ?

•Influences: War, Language, marriage, Trade

•External Contacts & Consequences

•Trading firms & the region