Category: Social – Tradition
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Akarigbo is the paramount ruler of the Remo people, who traditionally ruled his own session of Ijebuland on behalf of the Awujale. Originally, the Akarigbo’s authority was limited to Ofen (now Ofin), one of the Sagamu twelve communities, which in turn was one of the Remo towns, west of Ijebu, that coalesced during the nineteenth…
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Ajaka was the third Alafin of Oyo, and who presided at the time over much of the Yoruba nation. Ajaka was likely the builder of the famous Oranyan obelisk, apparently constructed in honor of his father, with whose nobility in vacating public life, he must have been impressed. Ajaka had assumed the throne of Orayan,…
