Tag: Williams Ilerhijele

The UPU endorsement and the essence of Urhobo ‘tanure’ – By Williams Ilerhijele

Apr 18, 2022

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by

Ediri Oyibo

in Opinion

When the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) was founded in 1931 as the Urhobo Brotherly Society, the founders wanted to advance Urhobo interest in the emergent order evolving from the experience of colonialism. The founders looked around them and saw that the Urhobo were frustrated, disorganized, confused and not reckoned with in the new scheme of…