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Title: | The prelude to the Yoruba civil wars of the nineteenth century |
Author: | Akinjogbin, I.A. |
Year: | 1965 |
Periodical: | Odù: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 24-46 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Yoruba history traditional polities |
Abstract: | The Owu war effectively marked the end of a particular phase of Yoruha political development. It started about 1821 between the Owu on the one hand, and the Ife, the Ijebu and the Oyo on the other. It was the cause of the complete destruction of the flourishing Owu kingdom, the signal for the disintegration of the old Oyo Empire and of the rest of the Yoruba country, and it was, moreover, the beginning of the transportation of the Yoruba to Brazil and Sierra Leone. The war ended nominally in 1825. Disintegration and destruction were not, however, the whole story of the aftermath of the Owu war. New edifices rose on the ancient ruins. Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ijaye, Modakeke, Ogbomosho, were either founded anew, or augmented by large numbers of new populations. These new towns, which grew out of the events starting in 1821, were later to dominate the history of the Yoruba country, as well as to rival one another for the hegemony of the country. References. |