ABEOKUTA

äˌbēōkooˈtə, ăbˌ–, city (1991 est. pop. 377,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for an agricultural region producing rice, yams, cassava, cotton, fruit, vegetables, and palm products. Manufactures of the city include beer, cement, dyed textiles, and canned foods. There are granite quarries nearby that provide building materials for S Nigeria. Abeokuta was founded in the 1830s by Egba refugees from the Yoruba civil wars.

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books on: Abeokuta  - 244 results

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Clifford, Imperial Proconsul
Book by Harry A. Gailey; Rex Collings, 1982
Subjects: Africa, West--History--1884-1960, Clifford, Hugh Charles--Sir--1866-1941, Colonial Administrators--Africa, West--Biography, Colonial Administrators--Malaya--Biography, Great Britain--Colonial Office--Officials And Employees--Biography, Malaya--History
...7 GOLD COAST: TRIUMPHS AND CONFLICTS 91 8 FLAWED HERITAGE: AFTERMATH OF ABEOKUTA 113 9 IN THE SHADOW OF LUGARD 130 10 THE LEVERHULME...
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Yoruba Land Law
Book by P. C. Lloyd; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Land Tenure (Yoruba Law)
...240 Abeokuta Town 243...226 11. Abeokuta 234 PLATES...for three months; these towns were -- Abeokuta, Ijebu Ode, Ode Ondo and Ado Ekiti. Ijebu...
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A History of the Church in Africa
Book by Bengt Sundkler, Christopher Steed; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Africa--Church History, Christianity--Africa
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AWO: The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo
Book by Obafemi Awolowo; Cambridge University Press, 1960
Subjects: Nationalism--Nigeria, Nigeria--Constitutional History, Nigeria--Politics And Government, Nigerian Youth Movement
...2 PARENTAGE UNTIL I visited Abeokuta in 1921, I had thought that the white...half-a-dozen white men before I went to Abeokuta. There was a Rev. G. Henry Lester...after this quarrel, she left Ikenne for Abeokuta where she stayed and carried on business...
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Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War
Book by Robert B. Edgerton; Westview Press, 2000
Subjects: Benin--History, Military--19th Century, Women Soldiers--Benin--History--19th Century, Women, Fon
...valiantly stormed the walled city of Abeokuta, only to be shot down in large numbers...after a failed attack on the Egba city of Abeokuta. One Amazon who had been taken prisoner...in the failed assault on the city of Abeokuta a few months later. The women who replaced...
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journal articles on: Abeokuta  - 59 results

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Carved Ogboni Figures from Abeokuta, Nigeria: Adugbologe Who Shines like the New Moon. There Is No Place Where He Is Not Known on This Earth
Journal article by Christopher Slogar; African Arts, Vol. 35, 2002
Subjects: African art--Exhibitions, Art, African--Exhibitions
Carved Ogboni Figures from Abeokuta, Nigeria: Adugbologe Who Shines like...an Ogboni woodcarving in print. In Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains, he described...the overall artistic production of Abeokuta, indicates the existence of a much...
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Chieftaincy and the State in Abacha's Nigeria: Kingship, Political Rivalry and Competing Histories in Abeokuta during the 1990s
Journal article by Insa Nolte; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002
Subjects: Kings and rulers, Nigeria--Political aspects, Politics
...political rivalry and competing histories in Abeokuta during the 1990s. by Insa Nolte...mythical history of kings in the city of Abeokuta and argues that, particularly during...traditional authority in the Yoruba (4) city of Abeokuta, Western Nigeria, during the 1990s. The...
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Fela's Foundation: Examining the Revolutionary Songs of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and the Abeokuta Market Women's Movement in 1940s Western Nigeria
Journal article by Stephanie Shonekan; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 29, 2009
Subjects: Black music--Evaluation, Feminism--Evaluation, Kuti, Fela Anikulapo--Influence, Music, Black--Evaluation, Musicians--Social aspects, Nigeria--Social aspects
...Songs of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and the Abeokuta Market Womens Movement in 1940s Western...choking tentacles of colonialism in 1940s Abeokuta. Far from detracting from the existing...created and sang during their revolt in Abeokuta. The rare attention that a few of Felas...
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Secrets of Success Uncertainty, Profits and Prosperity in the Gari Economy of Ibadan, 1992-94
Journal article by Mimi Y. Wan; Africa, Vol. 71, 2001
Subjects: Food industry--Economic aspects, Metropolitan areas--Economic aspects, Nigeria--Economic aspects
...great urban centres of south-western Nigeria (Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta and many smaller towns) has been constituted and refined into...which dot Oyo state, and in roadside markets along the Ibadan--Abeokuta road, gari is displayed in perfectly shaped mounds of grain...
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Joshua Adelakun of Mede
Journal article by T.H.J. Chappel; African Arts, Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: Adelakun, Joshua--Works, African artists--Works, Artists, African--Works
...criticisms were directed at a twin figure from Abeokuta (Fig. 12): The head was "correct," but...included, was a female twin figure from Abeokuta (Fig. 14). (6) When he first saw this...and commented upon in the figure from Abeokuta which he had recently copied. Joshua...
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magazine articles on: Abeokuta  - 4 results

 
 
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Burnt Offerings: Sometimes, in the Face of Theatrical Flops and Mishaps, Ogun, the Yoruban God of Creativity and Destruction, Demands a Ritual Animal Sacrifice
Magazine article by Wole Soyinka; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006
Subjects: Theater--Personal narratives, Theatrical directors--Personal narratives, Theatrical producers and directors--Personal narratives, You Must Set Forth at Dawn (Book)--Excerpts
...autobiography Ake: The Years of Childhood, in which the playwright and poet recounts his first decade (1934-44) in his hometown of Abeokuta. In this new memoir, Soyinka focuses on the tumultuous events of his adulthood, contemplates the nature of justice and tyranny...
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'Umaru, the Rumour Here Is That You Are Dead. Are You Dead?': Pini Jason Profiles Nigeria's New President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Magazine article by Pini Jason; New African, June 2007
Subjects: Nigeria--Elections, Political leadership--Evaluation, Yar'Adua, Alhaji Umaru Musa--Elections, Yar'Adua, Alhaji Umaru Musa--Evaluation, Yar'Adua, Alhaji Umaru Musa--Political activity
...this year when he was flown to Germany for a medical checkup and the rumour spread nationwide that he had died. At a rally in Abeokuta in Ogun State the next day, President Obasanjo, in a rather morbid humour, actually phoned YarAdua in Germany and asked him...
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Cellular Phones Are Status Symbol No. 1
Magazine article by Baffour Ankomah; African Business, July 1994
Subjects: Cellular telephone services industry--Nigeria, Cellular telephone services--Nigeria, Nigeria, Telecommunications systems
...10,000 lines which were gulped up within a few months by wealthy subscribers. The Lagos area (the Western Zone comprising Abeokuta, Badagry, Ibadan, Ijebu-Ode, Lagos city and Shagamu) accounted for 5,000 of the 10,000 lines. The Eastern Zone (ie, Aba...
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Bitter-Sweet My Life with Obasanjo
Magazine article by Osasu Obayiuwana; New African, January 2009
Subjects: Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo (Nonfiction work)--Authorship, Ex-presidents--Family, Ex-presidents--Social aspects, First ladies--Social aspects, First ladies--Works, Obasanjo, Oluremi--Social aspects, Obasanjo, Oluremi--Works, Obasanjo, Olusegun--Family, Obasanjo, Olusegun--Social aspects, Presidents--Social aspects, Presidents--Wives, Presidents--Works
...of any legal action that any aggrieved person may wish to take. Coming from what she describes as a middle-class family in Abeokuta in southwest Nigeria, with her father working as a station master on the colonial railways, Oluremi had a romance with Olusegun...


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newspaper articles on: Abeokuta  - 11 results

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United Face New Row with Nigeria
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 21, 2007
Subjects: Sports associations
...this weekend. The 28-year-old was named in Berti Vogts first Super Eagles squad ahead of Saturdays encounter with Uganda in Abeokuta. But given the full-backs unfortunate fitness record at St Jamess Park, he has not been released. African officials have threatened...
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Happy Marriage the Key for Yakubu
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 26, 2008
Subjects: Marriage
...Ikhana, daughter of the celebrated Nigerian coach Kadiri Ikhana, in a ceremony which started with the traditional rites in Abeokuta yesterday before concluding with a white wedding due to take place on Saturday in Lagos. After scoring 21 goals in his debut...
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Football: YOBO TOLD: TAKE A REST; but Blues Play Down Back Injury
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 11, 2007
...against Uganda in last weekends defeat. He told a Nigerian radio station: "Ive been struggling since the match against Uganda in Abeokuta, thats where I hurt my back, when I landed badly. "I have been playing through the pain barrier just to finish the season and...
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Football: BLUES FEARS OVER YOBO; Concern over Star's Back Injury
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 11, 2007
...pulled out of the squad yesterday and told a Nigerian radio station: "Ive been struggling since the match against Uganda in Abeokuta, thats where I hurt my back, when I landed badly. "I have been playing through the pain barrier just to finish the season and...
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U.S. Doctors to Aid in Abiola Autopsy
Newspaper article by Toni Marshall; The Washington Times, July 9, 1998
Subjects: Abubakar, Abdulsalam
...were reported in Lagos, the nations most populous city, and in the mostly Yoruba southwest, including Mr. Abiolas hometown, Abeokuta, and Ibadan. Abiola supporters took to the streets, set piles of tires on fire, pelted cars with stones and attacked the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Abeokuta  - 4 results

 
 
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Abeokuta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABEOKUTA a beokoo t , ab , city (1991 est. pop. 377,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for an agricultural region producing...cement, dyed textiles, and canned foods. There are granite quarries nearby that provide building materials for S Nigeria. Abeokuta was founded in the 1830s by Egba refugees from the Yoruba civil wars. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Obasanjo, Olusegun
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OBASANJO, OLUSEGUN oloo shegoon oba sanjo, 1937 , Nigerian military officer and political leader, b. Abeokuta. Obasanjo, who joined the army in 1958 and rose quickly to general, was a key commander during the secession of Biafra (1967...
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Yoruba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Nigeria and Benin, numbering about 20 million. Today many of the large cities in Nigeria (including Lagos , Ibadan , and Abeokuta ) are in Yorubaland. The old Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was traditionally one of the largest states of W Africa, but after the mid-1700s...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Nigerias highest point (c.6,700 ft/2,040 m) is located. In addition to Abuja and Lagos, other major cities include Aba , Abeokuta , Ado , Benin , Enugu , Ibadan , Ife , Ilesha , Ilorin , Iwo , Kaduna , Kano , Maiduguri , Mushin...


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