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Afonja of Ilorin was the "Are-Ona-Kakanfo", or chief military leader, of the Oyo Empire. Laderin, the great-grandfather of Afonja, was the founder of Ilorin city. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was succeeded by his son, Pasin, a powerful warrior who became a threat and target to, Basorun Gaha , because of his rising profile. [ 1 ]
Afonja, being bound by an oath and also desirous not to fall under a curse from a previous Alaafin made to the effect that any Aare Ona Kakanfo who attacked Iwere-Ile (his paternal home) was to die miserably, refused to comply. A further cause was given in 1795, when Awole ordered Afonja to attack the market town of Apomu, a part
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The Palace of Aare Latoosa in Ibadan. Obadoke Latoosa Oyatoosa (c. 1820s - 1885), but more commonly referred to as Latoosa (or Latosisa), and later Mohammed Obadoke Latoosa, [1] was a Yoruba General, Warlord, and Chief who was the Aare Ona Kakanfo of the Oyo Empire, the ruler of the self proclaimed Ibadan Empire, [2] and the commander and leader of the Western forces of Ibadan during the ...
Oyo, Oyo State, is the seat of the line of the rulers of Oyo.Their territory, a constituent rump state, is located in what is now Nigeria.Since the 1900 political absorption into Southern Nigeria of the kingdom that it once served as a metropolitan center, the traditional monarchy has been either a tool of British indirect rule or a legally recognised traditional polity within the republic of ...
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