Thanks for your thoughts.
Sometimes we give the Fulani too much credit, in the process of trying to demonize them. When we mean Muslims from the North trying to overrun a place,, including down South, we say Fulani, when in fact it could be a multiethinic Northern Muslim cavalry, some with or without Fulani leadership.
I stand to be corrected.
Bolaji Aluko
On Saturday, August 25, 2018, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:
--Thank you Bolaji. Your maps reinforce the story my father told me of why the Fulani chose our once flourishing city for attack and destruction for refusal to convert to Islam. It was like Oyo a frontier kingdom between the Yoruba country and the North with wealth accruing from its position as crossroads between the North and the Yoruba hinterland.
OAA
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-------- Original message --------From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>Date: 25/08/2018 21:09 (GMT+00:00)To: USAAfrica Dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com >Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - On the Matter of Yoruba in Northern Nigeria. (: NigerianID | Is Omarosa's Maternal Heritage Nigerian?
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From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, August 25, 2018
Subject: Re: NigerianID | Is Omarosa's Maternal Heritage Nigerian?
To: Imperia Merchant <imperial_ltd@yahoo.com>
Cc:
Imperial:
History does not lie. When for example, Tinubu prides himself as Jagaban Borgu, he has a sense of history. People forget that the Bariba people of Borgu Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bariba_people ) once fought against the Yoruba of Oyo Empire, but at some later time assisted the Yoruba to fight against the Tapa of Nupe Kingdom (mainly in modern-day Niger State, but also Kwara North and Kogi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupe_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupe_language ), all of who are/were neighbors. Here is a map of West African kingdoms in 1625:
If one were to superimpose the Nigerian portion of that map on these Nigerian states
https://www.nigerianmuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nige ria-Map-36-States-plus-Abuja- 500x436.jpg
as well as on the followung map showing the Niger-Benue confluence:
One will then get a good picture of why you write below that: "(they) claim to be Yoruba from the north (or northern Yoruba ) jbecause the present Kwara and Kogi states were once part of the old Northern Region . The capital of old Yoruba kingdom ( the defunct Oyo Empire ) was located somewhere around the present Kogi State".. In fact, if you draw a straight line through my Ekiti State, you will find that many parts of Ekiti State are more "Northern" than certain parts of Kogi, Benue and Taraba States. Therefore we should make a distinction between the "political North" and the "geographic North" of Nigeria.
Read the fascinating history in:
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 1:22 AM Imperial Merchant Trust Ltd <imperial_ltd@yahoo.com> wrote:
Wharf
Non of the three politicians ever denied being Yoruba but they claim to be Yoruba from the north (or northern Yoruba ) jbecause the present Kwara and Kogi states were once part of the old Northern Region .
The capital of old Yoruba kingdom ( the defunct Oyo Empire ) was located somewhere around the present Kogi State up till early 19th century .
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On 24 Aug 2018, at 11:04 PM, 'Wharf A. Snake' via Corporate Nigeria <corporate-nigeria@googlegroups.com > wrote:
Saraki, Sunday Awoniyi, Dino Melaye say they are not Yoruba but Buska, Ogbeni Dipo, Alagba Afis say they are. Now they have claimed the Itshekiri too. Revanchist they all are.
Ejo ni Mushin - PrinceSent from my iPhone
Yes o, we relate very well as cousinsWe have so many alliances and coalition with Itsekiri
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On Aug 23, 2018, at 9:26 PM, 'DIPO ENIOLA' via Corporate Nigeria <corporate-nigeria@googlegroups.com > wrote:
A good number of Itsekiri people think they are Yoruba. Some are active in OPC.
The Oha 1
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