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| Title: | Factional Competition, Sociopolitical Development, and Settlement Cycling in Ilare District (ca. 1200-1900): Oral Traditions of Historical Experience in a Yoruba Community |
| Author: | Ogundiran, Akinwumi O. |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | History in Africa |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Pages: | 203-223 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Yoruba migration history ethnic groups History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Education and Oral Traditions Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172215 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the sociopolitical development and settlement history of Ìlàrè, a Yoruba community which was the nucleus of an early sociopolitical formation in Ìjèsàland, in southwest Nigeria. This formation, known as Éka Òsun, dominated the area between the 13th and 16th centuries. The sociopolitical history of Ìlàrè is characterized by episodes of settlement cycling, i.e. fluctuations in the location of the community. Oral traditions stress intersocietal conflict and intergroup alliance as important factors in the early sociopolitical transformations in Ìjèsàland. They also indicate how factional competitions resulted in the continuous shift in the settlement of Ìlàrè within an area of about eight kilometres in diameter. The paper outlines the historical trajectories of events leading to the shift of Ìlàrè from the political centre to the political periphery of northern Ìjèsàland. It is based on narratives collected in 1991-1992 and 1997, as well as archaeological evidence. Notes, ref. |
