IWE IROHIN AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSAL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EGBALAND1

From: History In Africa | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

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The nineteenth century was in many ways a revolutionary one among the Yoruba of western Nigeria. The Yoruba civil wars caused much social and political disorganization of the existing entities in Yorubaland.2 Among other effects, the wars caused the uprooting of conquered and devastated peoples from their original homes to new lands. The Egba people were one of these. From their original homeland they moved south to settle at Abeokuta in 1830. They were later to be joined by other displaced peoples including the Ijaiye and the Owu, thus making Abeokuta a federation of sorts. The initial ...

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