TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE Celebrating our African historical personalities,discoveries, achievements and eras as proud people with rich culture, traditions and enlightenment spanning many years. Monday, March 3, 2014 ITSEKIRI PEOPLE: THE UNIQUE RIVERINE AND SKILLFUL TRADERS AND ONE OF THE FIRST NIGERIAN ETHNIC GROUP TO EDUCATE THEIR PEOPLE IN EUROPE The Itsekiri (also called the, Isekiri, Itsekri or Ishekiri or Itsekhiri) are a peculiar and unique riverine people who were traditionally fishermen and skillful traders living in the Nigerian Niger delta. They have inhabited their homeland, which now constitutes the three Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State, Nigeria, for centuries. The Itsekiri make up an appreciable proportion of the modern towns of Sapele, Warri, Burutu, and Forcados. The Itsekiris traditionally refer...