₦airaland Forum

Shymm3x:
But why do some Owo folks claim half-Bini ancestry?

Maybe one of their parents is Bini.

Besides,Owo is too different from Benin in language and other things.

Remember both were arch enemies in those days before the exchange of art and culture. Yeah they fought like three times or so.

Shymm3x:
Kingship doesn't necessary mean they got their first. Eko Kingship came from Bini but the Aworis were in Eko before the Binis came there to create a flank against Dahomey. Ditto Owo, Itsekiris, and a lot of small towns around larger Kingdoms/Empires.

Igalas did have a strong Kingdom back in the day and they actually held their own in different wars against the Bini Kingdom. So if they installed Kingship over a small indigenous population - it's understandable. However that doesn't mean they got there first.

Binis didn't establish kingship in Owo,but rather Owo princes(only two of them Omaro and Oshogboye) would go to Benin to learn courtly cultures and

military techniques.

Note:Oma means Omo in Owo dialect.

MayorofLagos:
Okuns own Lokoja according to history. It was acknowledged as a Yoruba town as far back before Livingstone and Landers who included this fact in their journals on the exploration of Niger.

Hi Mayor

Okuns do not wholly owned Lokoja but do have a part that they are indigenous to in the city. Lokoja is a disputed land among notably

Oworo(Okun),Nupe,Ebira,Igala,Hausa- all lay claim to ownership of the town.

IlekeHD:
Ekiti kete!! I'm sure it's more than that by now.

What's Okun's population in Kogi?

Ijumu Local Government Area 137,790

Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area 167,980

Mopa-Muro Local Government Area 50,840

Yagba East Local Government Area 171,530

Yagba West Local Government Area 162,570

Lokoja Local Government Area can't ascertain the number of Oworo(Okun) people there.

Source: National Population Commission of Nigeria (web).
The 2011 population projection handles states individually but not LGAs.

IlekeHD:
What's our population in Kwara?

Ekiti local govt - 63,200

Oke-Ero local govt - 66,190



Source: National Population Commission of Nigeria (web).
The 2011 population projection handles states individually but not LGAs.

zimoni:
I dey tell you. Just 1 LG, I see no reason why they lumped them with Kwara State. It was unnecessary.

Ekitis are actually in two(2) local govts in Kwara state namely Ekiti and Oke Ero local govts

[/quote]Thomas Sankara was born in Yako, the son of Marguerite Sankara (died March 6, 2000) and Sambo Joseph Sankara (1919 – August 4, 2006), a gendarme. Born into a Roman Catholic family, "Thom'Sank" was a Silmi-Mossi, an ethnic group that originated with marriage between Mossi men and women of the pastoralist Fulani people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara