Brass

Brass lies on the island of Brass in the eastern Niger Delta, a low world of creeks and river mouths opening onto the Bight of Biafra. Its Ijaw people, whose kingdom was known from the town of Nembe, lived among channels where canoes were the only practical way to travel between villages, fishing grounds and markets. From the eighteenth century the town became a middleman in the Atlantic trade, supplying captives and later palm oil to European ships anchored at the river mouths, and its traders competed with rivals for control of the creek routes.

The later city of Ogbia lies here.