The Ilorin Emirate is a traditional state based in the city of Ilorin in
Kwara State , Nigeria. It is considered to be one of the Banza Bakwai , or copy-cats of the Hausa Kingdoms .
The Ilorin Emirate is a traditional state based in the city of Ilorin in
Kwara State , Nigeria. It is considered to be one of the Banza Bakwai , or copy-cats of the Hausa Kingdoms .

At the start of the 19th century Ilorin was a border town in the northeast of the Oyo Empire , with a mainly Yoruba population but with many Hausa and Fulani immigrants. It was the headquarters of an Oyo General, Afonja, who rebelled against the empire and helped bring about its collapse with the assistance of the
Fulani .The rebellion was powered by Nupe and Bornu Moslem slaves.

Afonja had been assisted by Salih Janta, also called Shehu Alimi, a leader of the local Fulani. In 1824 Afonja was assassinated and Alimi's son Abdusalami became Emir. Ilorin became an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate .

For some time Ilorin was a major center of the slave trade. In the past slaves had mainly been sent north across the Sahara, but now they were being sent south via the Yoruba lands to the coast to supply demand from the USA, the West Indies , and Brazil .

Slaves were taken from the Igbo lands to the east and from conquered Yoruba towns, as well as from areas further to the north, and were traded for cloth and other goods. Ilorin continued to expand southward until it was checked in the 1830s by the growing power of
Ibadan , an Oyo successor state.

The Ilorin cavalry were ineffective in the jungle to the south, and by the 1850s Ibadan had access to guns from European traders on the coast. [1] The capital was occupied by the Royal Niger Company in 1897 and its lands incorporated into the British colony of Northern Nigeria in 1900, although the emirate continued to perform ceremonial functions. [4]

Rulers
Rulers of the Ilorin Emirate: [5]
Start End Ruler
1824 1842 Abdusalami dan Salih Alimi
1842 1860 Shita dan Salih Alimi
1860 1868 Zubayro dan Abdusalami
1868 1891 Shita Aliyu dan Shita
1891 1896 Moma dan Zubayru
1896 14 January 1914 Sulaymanu dan Aliyu
1915 November 1919 Shuaybu Bawa dan Zubayru
17 February 1920 June 1959 Abdulkadir dan Shuaybu Bawa
30 June 1959 1991 Zulkarnayni Gambari dan Muhammadu Laofe Dan Bawa "Aiyelabowo V"
1992 August 1994 Malam Aliyu dan Abdulkadir
1995 Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilorin_Emirate

Afonja had been assisted by Salih Janta, also called Shehu Alimi, a leader of the local Fulani. In 1824 Afonja was assassinated and Alimi's son Abdusalami became Emir. Ilorin became an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate CHAI, SO AFONJA REALLY BETRAYED HIS PEOPLE

ALOWONLE419:
The Ilorin Emirate is a traditional state based in the city of Ilorin in
Kwara State , Nigeria. It is considered to be one of the Banza Bakwai , or copy-cats of the Hausa Kingdoms .
The Ilorin Emirate is a traditional state based in the city of Ilorin in
Kwara State , Nigeria. It is considered to be one of the Banza Bakwai , or copy-cats of the Hausa Kingdoms .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilorin_Emirate

First How can Ilorin be a Banza bakwai state of the 7 original Hausa Kingdoms, when as at the time the Hausas still had their land in their own control - Ilorin was essentially a Yoruba town under Yoruba leadership?

second, Ilorin is never a border town okay. The border of Yorubaland is situated further north of Ilorin.

When you say slaves were taken from the 'Igbo lands to the east' I want to believe you meant the Igbonas (Igbominas).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ASxhPvP-ag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEAeVZgl0ZU