Ilorin and the Laderin Heritage: A Comparative Analysis of Some External and Internal Creations of Ilorin's Past
| dc.contributor.author | Salihu, Otukoko Ismail | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-03T11:38:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-03T11:38:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ilorin and the Laderin Heritage: A Comparative Analysis of Some External and Internal Creations of Ilorin’s Past. By SALIHU Ismail Otukoko Department of History and Heritage Studies, College of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete E-mail: salisma2004@yahoo.co.uk Abstract Ilorin has been a coveted and contested polity. Indeed, contestation over Ilorin remains a phenomenon that continues to attract attention of all and sundry. Between c.1824 and 1836, the Old Oyo Yoruba violently, albeit abortively, contested the “Fulani” control over Ilorin—a contestation that ended in the military defeat and final collapse of Yoruba Empire. The central role, which Ilorin played in the collapse of Old Oyo and the 19th c. Yoruba civil wars, is identified as a major influence on early local writers of Yoruba and Ilorin history like Samuel Johnson and Samuel Ojo. It is also one of the main reasons for Yoruba irredentism and contest for Ilorin, which have continued until recent times and culminated in abortive attempts by the pan-Yoruba political party, the Action Group and its ally, the Ilorin Talaka Parapo, to transfer Ilorin to the Western Region in the 1950s. Recently, similar contestations culminated in abortive moves for “a Yoruba Oba” (so-called “Onilorin”) of Ilorin. A major feature of nearly all forms of contestation over Ilorin is the recourse to its early “history” and the tendency of contestants and commentators to explore new battle grounds and tactics including the print and electronic media—newspapers, leaflets, home videos and the internet. In all these, the traditional accounts of early Ilorin, especially those based on external sources have been central to such controversies as the so-called “Ilorin’s crisis of identity” and what is here termed “Laderin Heritage” created and imposed on Ilorin by Reverend Samuel Johnson. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Salihu, O. I. "Ilorin and the Laderin Heritage: A Comparative Analysis of Some External and Internal Creations of Ilorin's Past." Al-Hikmah Journal of History and International Relations, 1(1), December 2014, 217-244 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2465-7336 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1476 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Department of History and International Relations, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1; 1 | |
| dc.title | Ilorin and the Laderin Heritage: A Comparative Analysis of Some External and Internal Creations of Ilorin's Past | |
| dc.type | Article |