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His conquests, while not all concluding during his lifetime, include lands in Ìgbómìnà, East Central Èkìtì, the Upper Ọ̀ṣun area, Ègbá and most notibly advances into the strip between the Yéwá and Ogun rivers (also referred to as Ẹgbado Corridor) which first gave Oyo access to the Atlantic Ocean and the global market.
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 Oyo Mesi was made up of the most powerful noblemen in imperial Oyo. No emperor, or Alaafin of Oyo, was capable of being enthroned in the capital without the prior consent of and performance of rituals by these seven titleholders. They were a ruler's principal advisors and sacred officiants, and also served a variety of judicial and ...
Coming to the throne shortly after the Oyo subjugation of neighboring Dahomey, Abiodun soon found himself embroiled in a civil war over the goals of the newly wealthy state. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Bashorun Gaha , the empire's prime minister and lord marshal, had used his power to pervert the constitutional terms of abdication in a bid to limit the powers ...
She became the first woman to become "king" of the Oyo in the imperial era, and the first woman since the pre-imperial ruler Yeyeori. [2] Orompoto assumed the throne because there was no male successor within her family at the time. [8] She helped drive the Nupe from Oyo in 1555. [2] Orompoto lived in the 16th century. [6] [9]
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Àjàgbó was a warlike Aláàfin of the West African Oyo Empire, who allegedly reigned for 140 years in the seventeenth century. [1] [2]He was reportedly born a twin to his brother Ajampati with his maternal town being Ikereku-were, which is said to have later been destroyed.
Ofinran was a 16th-century king of the Oyo Empire in West Africa [1] [2] who succeeded Onigbogi as Alaafin after the latter had left for exile in Borgu with a few other Yorubas from Oyo. Ofinran was then made king in a foreign land and joined his host in expeditions around the Niger River and the two communities co-existed.