Uzea

Uzea is an Esan settlement in the upland country northeast of Benin, near Uromi and Ewu. Local histories recall it as the seat of a kingdom that figured in struggles over authority between Esan rulers and Benin. Traditions of Uromi also recount movement through Uzea by the ancestors of its ruling families. These neighbouring communities shared a landscape of forest and cultivated land, while retaining their own histories and rulers.