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ImadeUReadThis:
Was Oyo Ile not pillaged to ashes and Yoruba indigents expelled by the Fulanis?

Askoo ooo!

Question begging answer.

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ImadeUReadThis:
Even their name yoruba was given to them by Huasa Fulanis

And your name collective name known as igbo was first uttered out by drug addicts.

ImadeUReadThis:
The Fulanis not only conquered and annexed Ilorin for themselves but went as far as sacking the old capital of Oyo empire.

The Yorubas did a tactical retreat from their pillaged capital of Oyo Ile and headed south, fleeing 90 miles to Ibadan - a then small remote town.

The new settlement then doubled as both the capital of the declining Oyo empire which was facing the ravages of an Islamic Jihad by Sokoto and also as a major refugee camp serving to host fleeing Yorubas from across the old Oyo empire.

The Jihadist had conquered the very capital of old Oyo empire and had annexed Ilorin for themselves so it wont be any surprise that smaller Yoruba settlements and towns in the old Oyo empire where being sacked with little resistance.

It is from the fleeing Yoruba population that Ibadan grew from a small town to one of the largest and densely populated areas in Africa.

We can forgive the British in defining Ibadan as a city when they first approached Ibadan but the honest truth is that Ibadan was nothing but a refugee camp.

Only two other local domains where described as ''Cities'' by the British and they relied on the classical definitions drawn from European antiquity.

The term city comes from citadel and it refers to a heavily fortified castle or town with watch towers. Ibadan had no such artificial defense unlike the cities of Kano and Benin.

The British used contemporary 19th century definitions based on population density and relative cosmopolitan makeup of Ibadan to arrive at the description of Ibadan being a city. Kano is famous for its surrounding walls which at some points was described by a British explorer as being up to 40ft thick. Benin was both walled off and had a complex moat encompassing the walls as a first line of defense.

So please lets not call Ibadan a city any more but rather refer to it for what it truly was - a massive refugee camp!

Okay.......

Coronabirus:
Is this the lies ur pastor feed u with?
u're bigotic ungrateful ppl. Everywhere u go in the core North there are native hausa or fulani Christians and they accepted the religion through Christian missionaries mostly of Igbo descent and set up ECWA Church. They didn't experience Persecution or harassment when spreading their gospel and until now nobody write any conspiracy theory abt thm. Igbos are the greatest evil in this nation always wanting to heat polity or set ethno-religious conflict. Igbo can't replicate what core northerners have done to the Igbo Christian missionaries because if today u convert to Islam in Igbo land u'll face Persecution & maltreatment similar to the people of ignorance.
I know the biggest pain of Igbo is seeing half of Yoruba ppl being Muslims because this will always kill their sinister plan.
U can't write other people's history by guessing and perception. Fulani issue is giving all ipigs HBP.

You don't know history of anything
in this country...

So, you think that it was Igbos that
brought Christianity & ECWA to northern
Nigeria!! Only quota system can allow
dumb people like you into government
schools, where they allow you pass out
without the necessary grades.

The good thing is that, we know the
only religion that kills its members who
finally see the light & decide to leave
such darkness. A religion that is by force.

Hausa states were well established &
flourishing until the Fulani introduced
religion by force & stopped the progressive
Hausas. Today, the Fulani have converted
the Hausa zones to poverty capitals of
the world.

ImadeUReadThis:
The Fulanis not only conquered and annexed Ilorin for themselves but went as far as sacking the old capital of Oyo empire.

The Yorubas did a tactical retreat from their pillaged capital of Oyo Ile and headed south, fleeing 90 miles to Ibadan - a then small remote town.

The new settlement then doubled as both the capital of the declining Oyo empire which was facing the ravages of an Islamic Jihad by Sokoto and also as a major refugee camp serving to host fleeing Yorubas from across the old Oyo empire.

The Jihadist had conquered the very capital of old Oyo empire and had annexed Ilorin for themselves so it wont be any surprise that smaller Yoruba settlements and towns in the old Oyo empire where being sacked with little resistance.

It is from the fleeing Yoruba population that Ibadan grew from a small town to one of the largest and densely populated areas in Africa.

We can forgive the British in defining Ibadan as a city when they first approached Ibadan but the honest truth is that Ibadan was nothing but a refugee camp.

Only two other local domains where described as ''Cities'' by the British and they relied on the classical definitions drawn from European antiquity.

The term city comes from citadel and it refers to a heavily fortified castle or town with watch towers. Ibadan had no such artificial defense unlike the cities of Kano and Benin.

The British used contemporary 19th century definitions based on population density and relative cosmopolitan makeup of Ibadan to arrive at the description of Ibadan being a city. Kano is famous for its surrounding walls which at some points was described by a British explorer as being up to 40ft thick. Benin was both walled off and had a complex moat encompassing the walls as a first line of defense.

So please lets not call Ibadan a city any more but rather refer to it for what it truly was - a massive refugee camp!

Weyrey historian..

ImadeUReadThis:
The Fulanis not only conquered and annexed Ilorin for themselves but went as far as sacking the old capital of Oyo empire.

The Yorubas did a tactical retreat from their pillaged capital of Oyo Ile and headed south, fleeing 90 miles to Ibadan - a then small remote town.

The new settlement then doubled as both the capital of the declining Oyo empire which was facing the ravages of an Islamic Jihad by Sokoto and also as a major refugee camp serving to host fleeing Yorubas from across the old Oyo empire.

The Jihadist had conquered the very capital of old Oyo empire and had annexed Ilorin for themselves so it wont be any surprise that smaller Yoruba settlements and towns in the old Oyo empire where being sacked with little resistance.

It is from the fleeing Yoruba population that Ibadan grew from a small town to one of the largest and densely populated areas in Africa.

We can forgive the British in defining Ibadan as a city when they first approached Ibadan but the honest truth is that Ibadan was nothing but a refugee camp.

Only two other local domains where described as ''Cities'' by the British and they relied on the classical definitions drawn from European antiquity.

The term city comes from citadel and it refers to a heavily fortified castle or town with watch towers. Ibadan had no such artificial defense unlike the cities of Kano and Benin.

The British used contemporary 19th century definitions based on population density and relative cosmopolitan makeup of Ibadan to arrive at the description of Ibadan being a city. Kano is famous for its surrounding walls which at some points was described by a British explorer as being up to 40ft thick. Benin was both walled off and had a complex moat encompassing the walls as a first line of defense.

So please lets not call Ibadan a city any more but rather refer to it for what it truly was - a massive refugee camp!

Thats not true.

Afonja waged war against his own people and sacked Oyo Ile. Fulani sacked Afonja in Ilorin, killed him and his commanders. Fulani then believed after wiping out Yoruba leaders of Ilorin and taking the town, they could overthrow Yoruba towns South of Ilorin and occupy them but they failed in that mission.

Check online and read up on the facts. Yoruba were not united, otherwise they should have retaliated the killing of their Aare.

Same happened in the 66 coup with Akintola. Same happened in 1998 with Abiola. It has become predictable that anybody can kill Yoruba top warrior and nothing will happen, no consequence.

Nobody can do that with Igbo or Fulani, thousands of the opponent camp will have their heads chopped off.

AsiwajuNdigbo:
Thats not true.

Afonja waged war against his own people and sacked Oyo Ile. Fulani sacked Afonja in Ilorin, killed him and his commanders. Fulani then believed after wiping out Yoruba leaders of Ilorin and taking the town, they could overthrow Yoruba towns South of Ilorin and occupy them but they failed in that mission.

Check online and read up on the facts. Yoruba were not united, otherwise they should have retaliated the killing of their Aare.

Same happened in the 66 coup with Akintola. Same happened in 1998 with Abiola. It has become predictable that anybody can kill Yoruba top warrior and nothing will happen, no consequence.

Nobody can do that with Igbo or Fulani, thousands of the opponent camp will have their heads chopped off.

Eyah, you didn't tell us how you Igbos are united to avenge the death of ironsi. Can you?

Lol. The degree of pain this IPOBian OP must be in to wake up and write this gibberish. Better get a life before hatred of the Yorubas consumes you.

adecz:
You don't know history of anything
in this country...

So, you think that it was Igbos that
brought Christianity & ECWA to northern
Nigeria!! Only quota system can allow
dumb people like you into government
schools, where they allow you pass out
without the necessary grades.

The good thing is that, we know the
only religion that kills its members who
finally see the light & decide to leave
such darkness. A religion that is by force.

Hausa states were well established &
flourishing until the Fulani introduced
religion by force & stopped the progressive
Hausas. Today, the Fulani have converted
the Hausa zones to poverty capitals of
the world.

I dnt have the time to talk abt my academic achievements wth because u're too small for tht. There was Islam in Northern Nigeria many decades before Usman Danfodio was born. U come here and say Nigeria is underdevelop, now u say it's north. I knw North is much better than ur landlocked region that's why u're everywhere in the North seeking for refugee.

See your limited education & knowledge
of history?

Islam was in Hausa land many
centuries ( not decades) before the
jihads. Danfodio only brought Taliban style
Islam as a tool to control the Hausa. This
has been very successful as Hausa no
longer have culture or identity.

Your half educated educated head
isn't even aware that northern Nigeria
is the most landlocked region in this
country & your north is just a parasite
to the other regions because you
contribute nothing other than religious
fanatics, herdsmen, kidnappers, illiteracy,
poverty, almajiri & barren desert.

Your Muslim north will dry up & die,
like southern Nigér republic if this country
breaks up. That is why the Sudanese man
in Abuja is stealing southern resources
to build railway, transport university etc
in Katsina, where the indigenes don't
like school. Last, last, it it Yoruba, Igbo,
Calabar, Edo, plateau & Nupe that will
come to fill up the place.

Coronabirus:
I dnt have the time to talk abt my academic achievements wth because u're too small for tht. There was Islam in Northern Nigeria many decades before Usman Danfodio was born. U come here and say Nigeria is underdevelop, now u say it's north. I knw North is much better than ur landlocked region that's why u're everywhere in the North seeking for refugee.

12Monkeys:
BishopMagic:

How Yoruba Muslims Sacked Old Oyo And Will Do Same For All Odua

Ilorin was a small town in the Oyo Empire by the beginning of the 19th century. Afonja, Baale of Ilorin, who also held the title of Are Ona Kakanfo of the Oyo Empire, rebelled against his king, the Alafin of Oyo, in 1817. (There is no space here for the reasons for his rebellion). In order to sustain his rebellion, he was desperate to build a large and powerful army. To that end, he did a number of desperate things.

First, he invited the people of nearby villages to move to Ilorin and turn Ilorin into a large town. Many people so moved, but most refused.

Secondly, he reached out to many prominent friends all over the Oyo country, and invited them to come and live in Ilorin. Some accepted his invitation and came. Among these was a rich trader named Solagberu from Kuwo. Another was a man named Alimi, a Fulani man who had long lived in the Oyo country peddling charms from town to town. Afonja employed Alimi to make charms for him and his army.

Thirdly, Afonja decided to exploit a religious situation that was causing trouble in the country at the time. A Jihad movement had started in Hausaland in the north in 1804, generating wars and stormy Islamic evangelism there. It was started and led by an immigrant people called Fulani. The Fulani immigrants were few among the large Hausa nation, but very many of the Hausa who were already Muslims sided with the Fulani – and thus made it possible for the Fulani to defeat the ancient Hausa kings and make themselves rulers over Hausaland.

Some of the violent Jihadist preachers trickled south into the Oyo country. Everywhere they came, they were causing a lot of commotion by preaching violent and disrespectful sermons against the Oyo kings and chiefs, and against Yoruba culture in general. Yoruba people, with their tradition of religious tolerance, were alarmed; and angry crowds began to attack the preachers. Afonja decided to exploit the situation by issuing a general invitation to the Muslims to flee to him in Ilorin, promising to give them protection there. Thousands of frightened Muslims fled to Ilorin, and Afonja trained many of them for his army. (Afonja himself did not intend to convert to Islam, and he never did).

Fourthly, most rich Oyo families had Hausa, Nupe and Fulani slaves - used mostly in farming, trading, livestock rearing, etc. Most were Muslims.

Afonja decided to exploit this also. He issued a proclamation saying that if any slaves ran away from their owners and came to him in Ilorin, he would give them freedom and protection there. Large numbers of slaves, mostly Hausa, fled to Afonja, and he trained some of them for his army.

Afonja thus had his large town and large army. Most of his army’s commanders and soldiers were Oyo Muslims. A few of the soldiers were Muslim Hausa – all slaves recently set free by Afonja. But many of his Hausa soldiers were unruly. He warned or threatened them repeatedly, but with no result. When he at last decided to discipline them, they mutinied. Afonja was killed in the mutiny - in 1823.

Meanwhile, while Alimi had been making charms for the army, he had become a friend to many of the Oyo commanders who were Muslims, and these hadmade him Imam (Islamic teacher and preacher) for the Muslim community in the army. After Afonja›s death, the same friends gradually made their Imam the ruler of Ilorin. They also created some officers among the Hausa soldiers - for instance, Balogun Gambari. The powerful men doing all these things were Oyo.

That then is how Oyo people made a Fulani man the ruler of Ilorin. When Alimi died, his elder son, Abdulsalam, was elevated to his father’s position by his father›s powerful Oyo Muslim friends. Adulsalam had lived in the Jihad in Hausaland and had only recently come to live with his father in Ilorin. He knew that the Jihad had made the Fulani the rulers of Ilorin - with a Fulani Sultanate based in Sokoto and quasi-independent Fulani Emirs in the separate Hausa kingdoms. So, after he was made ruler of Ilorin, he sent to Hausaland to announce that he had established an Emirate in Ilorin and to ask that his Emirate should be accepted as part of the Fulani Sultanate.

In this way, Ilorin became a Fulani Emirate, ruled by a Fulani family.

Ilorin was, in population, still an Oyo town - probably over 95% Oyo in population. And Ilorin was never conquered or even invaded by any Fulani army. Those influential Oyo men who made Alimi and his son the rulers of Ilorin did so out of fervour for their Islamic faith.

When the news of the happenings in Ilorin spread all over the Oyo country, people were shocked to hear that Ilorin people had made the family of an obscure Fulani charm peddler their rulers. Therefore, people formed armies to go and subdue Ilorin and flush out the Fulani impostors. None of these invasions of Ilorin succeeded. The invading armies were poorly organized, and, moreover, the old Afonja army defending Ilorin was just too powerful. In fact, in the end, the Ilorin people, in order to ensure perfect protection for their fervently Muslim town, decided to go out and conquer most of Yorubaland (all the way to the sea coast), and make all of it a Muslim empire ruled from Ilorin.

Their army marched out in about 1838, conquering town after town towards the south, and causing mammoth streams of refugees. Till today, most Yoruba people still call this Ilorin invasion a Fulani invasion of Yorubaland. But it was not a Fulani invasion at all; it was an attempt by the predominantly Yoruba Muslim people of Ilorin to conquer and Islamize the rest of Yorubaland.

The victorious Ilorin march southwards ended suddenly in 1840. The refugees who had gathered in the Egba village of Ibadan had quickly become a large town. Their army marched out and met the Ilorin army in Oshogbo in 1840, and totally destroyed them, capturing many of their commanders. From then on, the power of Ilorin was more or less over, and Ilorin never dared again to face the Ibadan army in battle.

In the following years, Ibadan became the most powerful state in Yorubaland, and established control over the Oshun valley, Ife, Ijesa, Ekiti, Akoko, Igbomina and parts of Iyagba. Ilorin continued to be ambitious to control some territory in its immediate neighbourhood – in nearby Igbomina and Ibolo (especially Offa); but they feared Ibadan. In 1877, the Ekiti, Ijesa, Igbomina and Akoko revolted against Ibadan’s rule, and the Kiriji War started, keeping all these peoples and Ibadan busy until 1893. Ilorin took advantage of this and established some feeble control over parts of Igbomina and Ibolo.

However, at home in Ilorin itself, a proper Emirate could not develop. The powerful Yoruba war chiefs wanted to re-establish the traditional Yoruba political system whereby the chiefs in a kingdom select their king. The Emirs resisted. By 1895, the chiefs were winning the contest grandly – a situation which forced the Emir Momoh to commit suicide after setting his palace on fire. The victorious chiefs then installed Sulaiman as Emir. This was the situation when the forces of the British Royal Niger Company came and conquered Ilorin in 1897.

In the years that followed, it was the British that established Ilorin as a full-fledged emirate, making the Ilorin Emir like the Emirs of Hausaland. The Emir then took advantage of that to establish all sorts of Emirate-type control over Ibolo and northern Igbomina.

In short, Ilorin was never conquered (was never even invaded) by the Fulani. Ilorin is more than 90% Yoruba in population. The Igbomina, Ibolo, and Ekiti of Kwara, because they have hated the imposture of the Ilorin Emirs since the beginning of British rule, tend to be usually cool towards Ilorin. Rather it was the treasonable ambition of Afonja and the Yoruba Muslim converts who handed Ilorin to the Fulanis.

Today, the same group are at the forefront fighting to ensure that all Yoruba land falls to Sokoto.



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Above post is a complete fabrication produced by loudmouthed storyteller who assumed he/she has monopoly on recorded events.

ImadeUReadThis:
Even their name yoruba was given to them by Huasa Fulanis

You could not be more correct with the above post. Yoruba were the second fiddle to Fulani during the migration. Nomadic Fulani who journeyed to northern part of the real state which later became Nigeria knew the exert place the Yoruba joined the march.

Interesting.

Interesting.

NaijirianKing:
Why all the insults? It seems recently that Fulani have been made public enemy number one and it is not fair. The issue is that on social media it is mostly Southerners who occupy the majority of those using this forum, and some take liberties to insult a great people, who have brought many good things to this country.

Speak with respect at all times. You never know who may be the one to help you out one day....

You got me wrongly.

I'm against the insults, I was being sarcastic.

They will soon chase the entire yaribanzas out to Benin Republic .

Useless bloody cowards