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I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...
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Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...
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This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
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This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
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THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Yoruba History
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THEORISTS of Indirect Rule assumed a relationship between colonial strategy and the degree of political development in African tribal societies.1...
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Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...
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The history of many places tells the story of wars waged by the countries in question ...... (more…)
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In the beginning, ibadàn started as a settlement of some radicals from nearby Yorúbá towns. Historians do not completely agree...
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This paper is an attempt to examine the status of Islam in Oyo and its environs1 in the era of...
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METHODS OF RULING NATIVE RACES. IF continuity and decentralisation are, as I have said, the first and most important conditions...
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During my third extended research trip in Kétu, Bénin, in the fall of 2006, when I asked people to explain...
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1.1 BACKGROUND 1.1.1 The Federal Republic Nigeria with a population of approximately 170 million, located in West Africa, has 36...
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For students of settler colonialism in the modern era, Africa and America represent two polar opposites. Africa is the continent...
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Lugard asserted that the direct cause of Africa’s partition was France’s search for rehabilitation in North and West Africa, following...
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Being the speech of Chief Bisi Akande at Offa on Saturday, October 9, 2010 as the Guest Speaker at the...
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Historians of Nigeria have been curious for many years about the relationship between the various states of the southern zone...
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The Yoruba, numbering over 20 million, are the second-largest language group in Nigeria and one of the most populous and...
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