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I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: Seun


Modified:

The Ilorin Emirate is a traditional state based on 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.[1] The rebellion was powered by Nupe and Bornu Moslem slaves.[2] 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.[3] Ilorin became an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate.[1]

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)

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

Okay!

Lol under crime section.. I see

agborodun:
I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: Seun

Dont be baised!.
Thats d message!

Okay noted, that's why we rooted for Eke Nja.

Hope we are good here, huh

Ok

What does Afonja mean

agborodun:
I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: S.eun

can we use this picture?

Ode! Thats not yoruba mark.

STFUareyouGod:
can we use this picture?

so AFONJA shouldn't be used in referring to the Yorubas, But IPOB YOOT should be used in referring to the Igbo abi?

hypocrite

akinszz:
Ode! Thats not yoruba mark.

ok Mr Brown Roof

Que.

If Afonja has nothing to do with Yoruba, as a Yoruba man, why do you seem worried?

Do you get worried if your name is peter and somebody calls you Matthew, or do you simply walk on because you are not the one being called?

Igbos oshi!

STFUareyouGod:
ok Mr Brown Roof

Afonja..... nice tag.
like not all Igbos are Ipod youths.

akinszz:
Igbos oshi!

you mean something like this?

The name Afonja is how much of Yoruba the "Yamirins" know. Just ignore them.

akinszz:
Igbos oshi!

He isn't Igbo.

Qummie:
He isn't Igbo.

He thinks I'm flatty

STFUareyouGod:
He thinks I'm Fally

Trouble-maker

Qummie:
Trouble-maker

Kkkk

STFUareyouGod:
you mean something like this?

AFONJA aka the Brown roof tribee alias Ndi ofe nmanu the Den of Ritualistt and Juju jazz peoplee

Davash222:
Okay noted, that's why we rooted for Eke Nja.

Hope we are good here, huh

Orie Nja

Omolorin ni mi fa