Ndokwa is made up of the Ndosimili and the Ukwani extracts. Ndosimili are people living within the water terrine (literally meaning; water people) while Ukwani literally means Nde-Ukwu-ani or the upland people. The names are derived from their geographical locations.

The Language

The Ụkwụànì language is related to several languages in the Niger Delta region. The Ndokwa people speak Ukwuani, with varying dialects spoken by various communities within Ndosumili area.
 
Ndokwa Economy
The Ukwuani people are notably peasant farmers, growing crops like cassava, yams, plantain, melon, okro etc. Those living in communities’ transverse by rivers and creeks are additionally engaged in fishing. 

Rubber and palm oil extraction have been the major source of huge income for the Ukwani speaking people since the colonial era till date. These activities are drastically dwindling due to falling market prices, huge migration of productive youths to major cities like Warri, Port Harcourt and Lagos, and increased hydrocarbon exploration and production activities in the areas. However the areas boast of the presence of one of the biggest agricultural field in Delta and Rivers States that is the Utagba Uno rubber plantation presently managed by Michelin.
 
Indigenously, the people are also involved in weaving of baskets, foundering and sculpture (known as Okpu-Uzu).

Italian giant AGIP has built and commissioned the first Independent Power Plant (IPP) by an oil producing company in Nigeria at Kwale.
 
The People
The people pride themselves with the peaceful environments that enabled the successful installation and commissioning of the plant. Indeed the Ukwuani people have been known to be one of the least hostile host communities in Niger Delta.
 
Ndokwa Music
The Ukwuani are widely known for their Ukwani Music, with artists like King Ubulu, Rogana, Harmony Kings, Orji Moore, Eric Enuma etc. that entertain a wide spectrum of Nigerians from the border states of Cross Rivers to Lagos and to the northern states of Abuja and Kano. The Ukwuani Music can be arguably described as the biggest influence the Ukwuani people have over their neighbours, as some of these neighbours adopt Ukwuani Music as their own and acceptably traditional music.

Abagworo:

You only want to cause unnecessary controversy here. Esumei came from Benin and met some aboriginal Igbos which means his lineage are not aborigines of Aboh but migrated their later and hence have no right to speak for the aborigines. Who are the Ndichie Ukwu and Ndichie Nta? What if the aborigines rise up today and ask Esumei's descendants to go back to Esako where they came from?

Abagworo:

You only want to cause unnecessary controversy here. Esumei came from Benin and met some aboriginal Igbos which means his lineage are not aborigines of Aboh but migrated their later and hence have no right to speak for the aborigines. Who are the Ndichie Ukwu and Ndichie Nta? What if the aborigines rise up today and ask Esumei's descendants to go back to Esako where they came from?

clefstone: Sir, i'm afraid ur knowledge of d Aboh pple is limited to wht u read on UK websites plus ur amusing assumptions. I wrote earlier that the aborigenes fled the area before an Aboh kingdom was created. When pple r conquered they usually become slaves or r exiled. Hence the aboriginal pple of the present day Aboh tht r left r at the periphery, decimated, dominated and hv accepted the present status and r loyal to the Obi. From ur comment, i imagine the aboriginal pple of the americas, d red indies, rising up nd chasing the now overwhelming majority settlers away. Ridiculous thought!
Lastly, thr is no such term as Indichie whatever in Aboh

Antivirus92: Thank u for answering him well. When people are desperate to fight the truth. He even said that the aborigenes are not igbos but learnt igbo for trading sake from their neighbours. Who are those their neighbours?. Coming to hausa, he forgot that even though that almost the whole of north speak hausa,that apart from the hausas themselves. Others learn and speak hausa as a second language not as a native tongue. Is igbo a second or the native language of the abohs?

Abagworo: Written history is quite a wicked evidence especially when it is detailed and from a neutral writer.

http://archive.org/stream/narrativeofexped01alle/narrativeofexped01alle_djvu.txt


* Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain, and Obi Osa'i Chief of
Aboh or {Eboe or Ibu.)

clefstone: this is d second time u r posting this link. Wht does it prove? An expedition tht was done a million years ago to d coastal areas of d Niger river tht ended up wit d brits making hasty generalizatn is now more important than the natives knowledge of their own history nd identity. Thnx for d link tho i've bin reading it, hv learnt a lot from it nd will comment more on it once i've read it all thru

clefstone: this is d second time u r posting this link. Wht does it prove? An expedition tht was done a million years ago to d coastal areas of d Niger river tht ended up wit d brits making hasty generalizatn is now more important than the natives knowledge of their own history nd identity. Thnx for d link tho i've bin reading it, hv learnt a lot from it nd will comment more on it once i've read it all thru

Abagworo:

If you make a sincere analysis, you'll realize that the Igbo generalization originated from Aboh since the Europeans were yet to enter the Igbo hinterland. There are 3 possible angles to the genesis of the generalization.

1) Nembe/Brass

2) Bonny

3) Aboh

Both the Bonny and Brass people knew Abohs as Igbos.

clefstone: from ur previous comments, the word 'igbo' is a derivative from the word Aboh(d Aboh, ebo, ibo, igbo tin). If this is true, d Bonny and Brass pple likely cos of their accent called Abohs ebos at the time. Also from ur previous comments, the term Igbo as it is known today was coined in d beginning part of the 20th century and before then was alien to the people of the S/East. It therefore follows that even though both words ebo nd igbo developed from a common origin, the use of d word Igbo nd d meaning it connotes at the present time is different from 1841 and before when it was a mis-pronounced name for the people of Aboh. I hope i've bin able to accurately put my thots into words

Got under weigh at about six A.M.,
and came opposite the group of villages of Ossa-
mare or Awsimini, on the left bank. This place is
said to be the resort of traders between Aboh and the
Elugu and Isoama tribes of the Ibo country.

Abagworo:


As at then it was used for Aboh and other people that spoke the language of Aboh people who were not Aboh and not under the reign of Eze of Aboh. Three distinct tribes all known as Igbo were recognized by this expedition.




Aboh, Elugu and Isoama are actually Delta, Anambra and Imo of today which means the Europeans were wise enough to notice the similarity and differences between the three as different tribes but still called them Igbo in general.

Odenigbo Aroli: Do you guys ever get tired ?? If he says he isn't Igbo let him be,biko. I have a lot of Kwale friends and I know what they claim. Arguing with him makes him feel important.

pazienza:


Unlike agbotaen and his side kick sony4all in the delta igbo thread, i have this feeling that clef actually came here to learn more about his identity.

pazienza:


Unlike agbotaen and his side kick sony4all in the delta igbo thread, i have this feeling that clef actually came here to learn more about his identity.

Abagworo: Written history is quite a wicked evidence especially when it is detailed and from a neutral writer.

http://archive.org/stream/narrativeofexped01alle/narrativeofexped01alle_djvu.txt


* Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain, and Obi Osa'i Chief of
Aboh or {Eboe or Ibu.)

clefstone: Its funny how this very article proves u wrong. At a point on the way to Aboh, the writer describes the people of Ibu tribe as being stout. When at Aboh, d same writer described the Abohs as being tall, yellow with big hands nd feet. There is already a sharp contrast. Its obvious he described people of two different tribes. Also, d write up clearly shows the Abohs were more accustomed to d pple of the Delta than the Igbos

clefstone: Hi, you hv to understnd d difference b/w aboriginals nd original aboh settlers as used in my comment. As regard d hausa situation, d difference is tht those northern group tht speak hausa as a second language hv remained in their ancestral territory, a situation different from the Aboh situation whr the people actually migrated to nd settled in a new land far from home, maintainin minimal communicatn wit their parent tribe(thr were no roads at d time nd d Ndokwa area is a rain forest region) hence for the reason of 'lack of need' lost their original language

clefstone: I hv been told these stories over nd again nd i hv read various accounts of Aboh history in d past. I must admit i hv learnt some stuff from this discussion especially from Abagworo. My dad told me a very long time ago how on seeing the Lander bros, the Abohs thot they didnt hv toes cos they were wearing stockings. Concerning the name Esumai and his co-migrants, it is expected tht once these people lost their original lingua the names they knew those pple as would be lost too. Wht were Igbo men doin in Benin at tht time? A proof of the migratn of d Esumai ba Ind is the political turmoil in the Bini kingdom at d time wc wud account for exodus of pple away from Benin. Since the binis had superior military might and political structure, it is easy to phantom why these pple were able to easily conquer d aborigenes, most like igbos, and establish a kind of political structure that didnt exist in any 'Igbo' clan

clefstone: I hv been told these stories over nd again nd i hv read various accounts of Aboh history in d past. I must admit i hv learnt some stuff from this discussion especially from Abagworo. My dad told me a very long time ago how on seeing the Lander bros, the Abohs thot they didnt hv toes cos they were wearing stockings. Concerning the name Esumai and his co-migrants, it is expected tht once these people lost their original lingua the names they knew those pple as would be lost too. Wht were Igbo men doin in Benin at tht time? A proof of the migratn of d Esumai ba Ind is the political turmoil in the Bini kingdom at d time wc wud account for exodus of pple away from Benin. Since the binis had superior military might and political structure, it is easy to phantom why these pple were able to easily conquer d aborigenes, most like igbos, and establish a kind of political structure that didnt exist in any 'Igbo' clan

pazienza: And by the way,the AKRI people were not easily conquered,which was why esumai had to resort to co existence with them, and his son and successor,Ogwezi, had to result to deceit and cunning behaviour to drive away the AKRI people. Many igbo speaking groups drove away other igbobspeaking groups and claimed their territory in ancient times, for example, the Edda people in ebonyi state, migrating from cross river/akwaibom area, fought and displaced the original settlers of eddaland, and drove them into umunneochi and orumba south areas of abia and anambra states. aboh pushing akiri towards ogbaru area of anambra is no biggie, it was the norm those days. just as edda and the igbo groupsvthey displaced were igbo speaking, so was akri and aboh.


And again, there is nothing superior about monarchy,if it were,the civilized and developed world today,wouldn't have dumped it for democracy/republic.

Antivirus92: guy let me give u instances how a group of people can loose their language to another language. Firstly,colonisation
secondly,when a small group of people meet a larger group,they get swallowed up.
Thirdly,Expansion of empires and kingdoms
Fourthly,war:the victor and the vanquished. TRADE does not bring about change of language. Trade can make the parties involved borrow words from each other. The abohs drove away the aborigenes who would have made them change their bini language. So i wonder how and to whom they later lost it if they are actually bini speaking people.

clefstone: Its funny how this very article proves u wrong. At a point on the way to Aboh, the writer describes the people of Ibu tribe as being stout. When at Aboh, d same writer described the Abohs as being tall, yellow with big hands nd feet. There is already a sharp contrast. Its obvious he described people of two different tribes. Also, d write up clearly shows the Abohs were more accustomed to d pple of the Delta than the Igbos

clefstone: my friend, whr u r gettin this wrong is ur seeming assumptn that the said migratn settlement and eventual sack/colonization of the ?Akiri people occured in a week. It must hv been a process that lasted for decades, a reason y Esumai wasn't even d first Obi of Aboh but his son. And pls do not compare the present times wit the 16th century, tht Igbos r scattered all ova nigeria today doesnt mean they were at tht time. Is thr any record of trade b/w d igbos nd binis in d 16th century. Lastly wht makes a political system superior is its ability to foster economic growth, political stability and protect the sovereignty. At the time, i dnt think any igbo clan could rival Aboh, and certainly Benin in tht regard

pazienza:


Now i am convienced that you are of the same stock as agbontaen, you are simply not being sincere. The explorers in that report never visited the igbo east of the niger,and never made comparisions of the physical looks of the igbos at aboh and those across the niger. He was actually comparing the natives of aboh with those of other west africans, let me quote him:


'' The natives of aboh are comparatively tall for west africans,well-made and muscular, but the hands and feet are large, the most prevalent colour is yellowish or brownish-black''



Now, this was how he described the aboh,in comparison to other west africans, and any nigerian who is not igbo can see that this description fits the igbos at both sides of the Niger.