Tag: Oduduwa
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Asara is traditionally known as Oduduwa’s appointed priest in Mecca who extended the worship of multiple gods to the disdain of Moslems, who were at the time, subdued. Asara’s son, Braima, who was opposed to this practise, had caused a riot that led to the great exodus of Oduduwa and his kindreds to Ile Ife.…
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Iyayun was the Reagent to the throne of Oyo after the demise of the fifth Alafin, Aganju. Iyayun was the daughter of the Onisambo, whose name was also Aganju. She was forcefully taken into Alafin’s custody during the war in which her father was captured. The war had started due to Iyayun’s father’s intransigence towards…
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Oduduwa is the eponymous founder and ancestor of the Yoruba race. Both titles attributed to him, however, appear not to be literal. The most plausible representation of him is of a Prince installed by, or aligned with the Byzantine imperial powers, who fled to West Africa due to a major religious strife between Chalcedonian Catholics…