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The Egba people are a subgroup of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group of western Nigeria, a majority of whom are from the central part of Ogun State, that is Ogun Central Senatorial District. Ogun Central Senatorial District comprises six local government areas : Abeokuta North , Abeokuta South , Ewekoro , Ifo , Obafemi Owode and Odeda local ...
A short oral history of Egba in Iyewa Egbado langauge by Elegbede Fausat Agbeke, a native speaker on the 25th of May 2021 at Abeokuta in, Ogun state. Date: 25 May 2021: Source: Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc: Author: Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc: Permission (Reusing this file)
The Egba people's original homeland in the Egba forest was established by Yoruba migrants from elsewhere. According to The History of the Yorubas by Samuel Johnson, Eso Ikoyi chiefs in the retinue of the first Alake of the Egba joined him in founding a new community - the confederacy of towns that became known as Orile Egba - in the forest after they left the nascent Oyo empire in around the ...
The Egba people's original homeland in the Egba forest was established by Yoruba migrants from elsewhere. According to The History of the Yorubas by Samuel Johnson, Eso Ikoyi chiefs in the retinue of the first Alake of the Egbas joined him in founding a new community - the confederacy of towns that became known as Orile Egba - in the forest after they left the nascent Oyo empire in around the ...
It was ultimately proven in 1921 that there were good grounds for the protest by the people who were against State ownership of native lands. [3] Edun facilitated a good relationship between the white merchants and the Egba people, and he was pivotal to the modernization of administration and civilization in the land.
The Alake, Egba Government Officials, and the Lagos Colony Governor . The Egba United Government (EUG) was a short-lived but significant government established in the late 19th century by the Egba-Egbado people, a subgroup of the Yoruba ethnic group, in what is now South-western Nigeria and Eastern Benin.
Alake Ademola engaged Folarin to document the history of the Egba people and codify its customary laws. His texts included A short historical review of the life of the Egbas from 1829 to 1930 (1931) and The laws and customs of Egba-land (1939), [ 16 ] both of which are reference books in leading libraries around the world, including Harvard and ...
He was the grandfather of the Egba warlord and leader Sodeke, through Sodeke's mother Efuwo. Jibodu was the pentultimate Alake in Igbo-Egba, and likely ruled during the turn of the 19th century. Jibodu was a son of Saade, who was a granddaughter of Alake Laarun. Many of Jibodu's descendants became Alake of Egbaland when the Egba moved to Abeokuta.