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There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by Elose11(m): 4:31pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
It was British historians like Professor Robin Law, swayed by Reverend Samuel Johnson’s pretentious History of the Yorubas, who invented the claim that by the 1690s Oyo had become the greatest Empire in pre-Colonial Nigeria.¹ But all the earliest writers on Yoruba, including the Danmasanin Katsina² and Sultan Bello in the 1830s,³ never mention any Oyo Empire. The first Europeans to visit Oyo itself, including Captain Hugh Clapperton⁴ and the Lander brothers,⁵ never wrote that Oyo was an empire. In 1668 Olfert Dapper described the Benin Kingdom in details but never mentioned any nearby great Oyo Kingdom.⁶ In fact, the first documented mention of Oyo was two years later in 1671.⁷ For hundreds of years no pre-Colonial European map mention any Oyo Kingdom, let alone Oyo Empire, even though the same European maps repeatedly depicted the Benin, Zegzeg, Borno, and other kingdoms of those days. More importantly, there is no any documentary evidence that Oyo ever conquered its neighbours into an Empire.⁸ Dahomey, Akure, Ile Ife, Ilesha, the Owu, Ijesha, the Egba, Ijebu, the Ondos, the Owo, the Ugbo, the Ekiti, etc., were never part of any phantom Oyo Empire.⁹ Instead, in 1793 the Portuguese Resident Archibald Dalzel, wrote as a living witness that the Oyo Kingdom was part of the Nupe Empire and was still paying annual tributes to the Etsu Nupes at the end of the 18th century. How could Oyo had been the greatest Empire in pre-Colonial Nigeria by the 1690s when one hundred years later in the 1790s it was still a small kingdom paying annual tribute to the Etsu Nupes? https://www.nupebaze.com.ng/2021/04/there-was-no-oyo-empire-by-ndagi-abdullahi-amana-nupe.html |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by IgweOfNnewi: 4:34pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
I guess another igbo |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by Soolmus: 4:38pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
Ipobians sef Obsession with Tinubu, Osinbajo, Yoruba is just too much.. . 1 Like |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by danvon(m): 4:38pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
I think it was the Northern scholars themselves, who wrote about Oyo empire We can't be relying on foreigners to write our history |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by Nobody: 5:00pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
Soolmus: Ndi mmanu, emeru unu ifea eme?? YMM are neither here nor there. Nupe man is talking about OYO empire, this one here is talking about igbos. These slimmy aphonjas are always scared of facing the northerners. |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by Soolmus: 5:03pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
OOzz: Since you claim Nupe and Yoruba are mentioned on this thread what are you doing here Mr Ipobian What brought you here if not obsession . 1 Like |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by seunmsg(m): 5:06pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
Nothing wey person no go read again for Nairaland. All sorts of rubbish everyday. 1 Like |
Re: There Was No Oyo Empire By Ndagi Abdullahi Amana Nupe by Resurrection212: 5:11pm On Apr 04, 2021 |
Elose11:Werey they just contradicting themselves just because of hatred. I'm afraid your children will suffer for your illiterate. |
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