The Eleme are one of the various groups of indigenous peoples that inhabit the Niger Delta region of southeast Nigeria. The Eleme live in ten village-clusters situated in Eleme Local Government Area (ELGA), Rivers State, around 20km east of Port Harcourt. The total territory occupied by the Eleme people expands across approximately 140 square kilometres. The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. ... The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil. ... Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. ... Location of Port Harcourt in Nigeria Port Harcourt is a city located in the Niger Delta in Nigeria. ...

Linguistically and ethnographically the Eleme are closely related to the Ogoni people, and ELGA is usually considered to be part of Ogoniland (the socio-political home of the Ogoni people). However, relatively few Elemes are members of MOSOP (a political organisation founded to protect the rights of the Ogonis) and the Eleme leadership have not signed the Ogoni Bill of Rights. The Ogoni people are one of the many indigenous peoples in the Niger Delta region of southeast Nigeria. ... The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has struggled against the degradation of their lands by Shell Oil in Nigeria. ...

The Eleme are traditionally an agricultural society, with workers travelling out to farms situated around the villages. Crops include yams, cassava, palm-oil fruit, fluted pumpkin and bitter-leaf. Crops are primarily used to sustain each family (a system of agriculture known as subsistence farming) , but each family also typically trades their excess crops at one of the town markets. Even where family members are employed outside of agriculture, they still farm their own land as a supplementary income. Farm workers are usually women. For the Levantine god of the untamed sea, see Yaw. ... Binomial name Manihot esculenta Crantz The cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta) is a woody perennial shrub of the spurge family, that is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrate. ... Insert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text here Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. ...

Christianity is the dominant major-religion in South-Eastern Nigeria and is widespread in Eleme. Traditional animist beliefs are also upheld by the majority of the population, including those who identify themselves as Christians. Marriages are traditionally polygamous and commonly exogamous with both other Ogoni and non-Ogoni groups across the Niger Delta. While the introduction of Christianity has undoubtedly led to a greater number of monogamous marriages in the region, polygamy and Christianity do not appear to be mutually exclusive in some families. The history of Christianity is difficult to extricate from that of the European West (and several other culture-regions) in general. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Polygamy, literally many marriages in ancient Greek, is a marital practice in which a person has more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has a maximum of one spouse at any one time). ... Exogamy is the custom of marrying outside a specified group of people to which one belongs. ...