Most people would doubt that curses are truly powerful some disregard it, but the most dangerous thing that can happen to any human is for a curse to be laid on you. Let us take the issue of ilorin in Kwara state as an example as written and recorded by Samuel Johnson In his works the history of the Yorubas. This is an excerpt from the book.

At the death of oyabi, the Are-Ona Kanakafo (the head of the Oyo Empire) Afonja, the founder of Ilorin demanded and was given the title of Are-Ona Kanakafo. The Alaafin of Oyo (King) Aole did not support Afonja's new position. The refusal of Alaafin Aole to recognize and accept Afonja as the new Kanakafo angered Afonja. In 1871, he (Afonja) sent an empty Calabash to the Alafin Aole, thereby signifying that he no longer acknowledged the authority of the Alaafin. Aole had no choice than to accept and in traditional fashion committed suicide. Before he died, Alaafin Aole uttered his famous curses on both Afonja and the Yoruba land.

From Alaafin palace forecourt, Aole shot three arrows, one to the north, one to the south and one to the west, saying: "May curse be on you for your disloyalty and disobedience, so let your children disobey you. If you send them on an errand, let them never to bring you word again. To all this points I shot my arrows you would be carried as slaves! My curse will carry you to the sea and beyond the seas, slaves will become your Master.

Then smashing an earthenware dish, he shouted. "Broken Calabash can be mended but not a broken dish, so let my curse be irrevocable". Many historians and scholars believe that the curse seemed to take immediate effect and there had neither been peace or unity in Yoruba land from then.

Afonja later invited Alimi, the fulani itinerant Muslim preacher to ilorin. Instead of bringing total protection for embattled Afonja, he was killed by the jihadist. Kingship of Ilorin has eluded Afonja's descendants till date.

Excerpt from the "history of the Yorubas" by Samuel Johnson.



Notable men who have one time answered the title of Kakanfo are Samuel Akintola who was murdered in the coup of 1965 and M.K.O Abiola who despite warnings to reject the title Are-Ona Kakanfo, accepted it and later died in prison.

People should be very careful of who they offend and the kind of titles and awards they acquire.
There is power in curses.

The short and simple of it is that afonjas are betrayers

Powerful curses that yoruba are suffering from till today.

Anytime yorubas make noise and beat their chests, SE/SSner always reminds them of this history and it pains my friends and make them withdraw to their shells. LWKMD

There was no Fulanization in Ilorin. Fulanization (just like Latinization and Arabization) should have come with the adoption of the Fulani language. Since that did not happen, and since the Fulanis forgot their Fulani language and picked up Yoruba language and even names, it is more correct to say that what happened in Ilorin was the Yorubanization of Fulani people.

RedboneSmith:
There was no Fulanization in Ilorin. Fulanization (just like Latinization and Arabization) should have come with the adoption of the Fulani language. Since that did not happen, and since the Fulanis forgot their Fulani language and picked up Yoruba language and even names, it is more correct to say that what happened in Ilorin was the Yorubanization of Fulani people.

it's obvious from the right up that a fulani man Alimi who was invited by Afonja for protection killed him. It's not about language but desecration of culture cause up to this day what we have in Ilorin is an emir of Ilorin, not oba or Aare and emir's do they speak Yoruba or Fulani.

The message though is about the effect of curses

RedboneSmith:
There was no Fulanization in Ilorin. Fulanization (just like Latinization and Arabization) should have come with the adoption of the Fulani language. Since that did not happen, and since the Fulanis forgot their Fulani language and picked up Yoruba language and even names, it is more correct to say that what happened in Ilorin was the Yorubanization of Fulani people.

Correct Quotation, The Yorubanization of Fulani People.
How can somebody claim to take over a Yoruba region but end up speaking and havin a Yoruba culture ?? That sounds like the take-over was in reverse

Afonja was killed in the early 1800s and Afonja's families are recognized as the Magaji Aare in Ilorin. So don't say what you don't know

Rivertemz:

Correct Quotation, The Yorubanization of Fulani People.
How can somebody claim to take over a Yoruba region but end up speaking and havin a Yoruba culture ?? That sounds like the take-over was in reverse

I'm from the Balogun Ajikobi family and we all agree that Ilorin is an Emirate. So, Ilorin doesn't belong to Yorubas or Hausas. We belong to the Sultanate

Ajikobi1:
I'm from the Balogun Ajikobi family and we all agree that Ilorin is an Emirate. So, Ilorin doesn't belong to Yorubas or Hausas. We belong to the Sultanate

I guess Bida doesn't belong to the Nupes, too, but belongs to the sultanate.

Balogun Ajikobi family is even a proper Yoruba family.