MUST READ: The Isoko Traditional History

                                               Isoko Mask

Recorded foundation The Isokoland is a standout amongst the most thickly populated regions in Nigeria, with around 500 individuals for every square kilometer contrasted and the normal of 198 for Delta State and 130 for Nigeria. The result has been a lack of farmland which is highlighted by oil investigation exercises in the locale. A number of the (assessed) more than 475,000 Isoko individuals relocated to different parts of the nation, living in Ughelli, Warri, Sapele, Benin, Ijebu Ode, Ondo, Lagos and Kano simply like each other ethnic gathering in Nigeria and predominately in the rustic agrarian area zones of Benin, Ondo and Ijebu-Ode. Likewise, somewhere in the range of 300,000 Isoko individuals are changeless indigenes of Ndokwa East of Delta State and Sagbama nearby government region of Bayelsa state.

Isokoland is basically rustic with no urban and semi-urban focuses. Isoko area is inside of the financial shadow of the lively mechanical, business Warri city and the outcome has been to a great extent of kickback impacts, with the vast majority of the young fellows and ladies notwithstanding accessible capital in Isokoland graduating to Warri rural zone. The lingering populace is basically included in farming, little scale business and mechanical ventures. Against this foundation of the insignificant financial exercises, gigantic unemployment of young people is high, the personal satisfaction is low and underneath the way of life prescribed by the United Nations Development Organization and neediness is overflowing in Isokoland.

                                   An Isoko girl in her Traditional Attire

The Isoko ethnic gathering is one of the littlest minority ethnic gatherings in the Niger Delta district of Nigeria in West Africa, involving a zone of around 1,200 square kilometers, with a lingering populace of more than 750,000 by 2001 statistics. The dialect talked by the Isoko individuals is the Isoko dialect. It is semantically like that talked by the neighboring Urhobo individuals

While individuals trust that the Isoko individuals started from the Benin Kingdom, others, similar to Professor Obaro Ikime, trust this to be untrue. Ikime states "If there is any part of the historical backdrop of the different people groups of Nigeria about which nobody can talk with any exactitude, it is what manages the roots of our people groups." The conviction that the greater part of the Isoko gatherings are of Benin beginning were perspectives held and communicated in the 1960s and 1970s. These perspectives were "determinedly oversimplified and depended on British Intelligence Reports of the 1930s" and Ikime's field work of 1961-1963.

The Isoko individuals are prevalently Christians. Customary love still flourishes in spite of the solid attack of Christian standards. Ọghẹnẹ is the word for God. Despite the fact that it can be for the most part termed as customary religion, there are however a few practices that are impossible to miss to some isoko group. For example in the town of Emevor, some essential celebrations like "idhu and owhoru" which are praised every year and bi-every