by zaragenca » Tue May 29, 2007 7:06 pm
..Continuation.The reasons what I said that Oyo people were not Yorubas could be stated as following; The people of Oyo which later moved to several cities in Yorubaland, (including Ibadan),had several opportunities to embrace the Yorubas religion but they refused...After Oramiyan was out of Oyo,and the Nupe/worrior,Shango,took the territory back to the Nupe/Kingdom,the territory became a fight betweent the Nupe/Kingdom and Borgu-Confederacy and later the Fulanis Muslims,(and the Yorubas stayed out of it).The resources for those fight were coming from,..Borgu,Bussa,Nikki,Wawa,Illo,Kaiama,Gbogun,I koyi,Kano,Gwandu,Kumo,Offa,etc which were of Hausas Muslims roots....In around 1530's,the Alaafin of Oyo,Onigboni,attempted to introduce the worship of Ifa and the ceremonies,but it was rejected by the Oyo Mesy,(they didn't want to be subjected religiously to Ile Ife and fiscally to Benin City)...They have more Muslims influence than anything else,Atiba,Afonja,Amodo,Opeangbe,Latoosa,Arowusi,F ajimi,etc., were leaders of Oyo and Ibadan which were Muslims,and other leaders in Ibadan became Christians,(Bolude,Kukomi,Akinyele,Babatunde,etc.) ...Samuel Johnson,(which studied the Old Oyo),didn't find any evidence of Yorubas ceremonies,(Ogboni),or setting of Ifa/Oracle in the Old Oyo empire,(before they were forced to move to Yorubaland by the Fulanis Muslims)....They didn't have the Yorubas mark which was established in order to recognize Yorubas throuth the territory...I observed the drawing-pictures of the drums which were been used in Oyo and in Ibadan, (early on), and the drums resamblace the Araras drums,(they didn't know how to make Batas at all)..In Ibadan, there was another opportunity to embrace the religion when the Oyo people started moving there,but after they were out numbering the rest of the people,they forced the Egbas out of Ibadan and later did fight with the military/slaves from Ife,(Gbadamu war),which were the original military-slaves setting the Military Contract Camp in Ibadan,(Lagelo,Okunade,Labosinde,Lakanle,etc...to be continued.Dr.Zaragemca
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