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William Clarke account of 1800 invasion of Yorubaland by armed Fulani in the midst of the Jihad. The ink of Clarke dotted the below lines after visiting Yorubaland in May 1854 to 1858. There are similarities between yesterday and today.

"Just at this time the great thirst for pillage and kidnapping had reached such degree in all the (Yoruba) country as to prove such a powerful auxiliary to the Fulani in carrying on their conquests by breaking that bond of union which hitherto had presented the Yoruba to their neighbours as a powerful and prosperous people.

If, on the one hand, the Fulani who had been the scourge of interior Africa, were coming down like an avalanche on the kingdom, sweeping everything before it, the people of Yorubaland on the other hand, were the prey of their own cupidity and became so far abandoned to every vile principle as to subject their neighbours of contiguous cities to slavery, verifying in their case the saying of scripture that "The wicked tremble at the shaking of a leaf." https://www.irohinodua.org/back-to-yoruba-p…on-of-fatherland/