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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 took cause with Awole when the latter commanded him to attack Alaafin Abiodun's maternal home, Iwere-Ile. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
This was the first time a high chief next to the King would reside outside the kingdom. [6] Are-ona-kakanfo, the Field Marshall of Yoruba armies, was conferred on Kurunmi of Ijaye. [6] He had to go to Oyo to be conferred. [6] These two high offices next to the Oyo sovereign had their functions delineated as follows: [6]
For some time, Ilorin was a major center of the slave trade, described by Richard Henry Stone as the "largest slave market in that part of Africa". [4] Most Yorubas in Ilorin were still pagan, which lead to most being subjects to the Emir, who "had little social upheaval, who most secretly desired to free themselves, from the Fula". [5]
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Afonja was double-crossed by the Fulani, and, upon his assassination, Alimi’s son, Abd al-Salam (Abdul Salami), became emir of Ilorin and pledged allegiance (c. 1829) to the Sokoto caliphate. As a Muslim emirate, Ilorin attacked several towns in Northern Yorubaland and destroyed the Oyo capital, Oyo Ile (Old Oyo, or Katunga), 40 miles (64 km ...