ABSTRACT
Chapter III. THE STRUCTURE OF THE VILLAGE WITHIN the framework that we have called the village-group of Agbaja, the village of Umueke more or less managed its own affairs, with occasional repercussions on it from part or whole of the group. Like the bigger whole of which it is a part, its members have between them the ties of kinship, locality, religion, language and economic activities. But here the ties are stronger and more intimate, and there is a greater consciousness of belonging to a real entity. There are often rivalries and disputes between the inhabitants of a village, but there is none the less a sense of belonging together.
