ILESHA

ēlāˈshä, city (1991 est. pop. 334,000), SW Nigeria. Formerly a caravan trade center, Ilesha is today an agricultural and commercial city. Cacao, kola nuts, palm oil, and yams are shipped from there. There is a sawmill, and alluvial gold is found. Ilesha was the capital of the Yoruba Ilesha kingdom of the Oyo empire. After Oyo's collapse in the early 19th cent., Ilesha became subject to Ibadan. It was taken by the British in 1893.

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books on: Ilesha  - 47 results

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The Diaries of Lord Lugard - Vol. 4
Book by Margery Perham; Northwestern University Press, 1959
Subjects: Africa, East, Kenya--Description And Travel, Nigeria--History, Uganda--Description And Travel, Uganda--History
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The Nigerian Federal Election of 1959: Politics and Administration in a Developing Political System
Book by K. W. J. Post; Oxford University Press, 1963
Subjects: Elections--Nigeria, Nigeria--Politics And Government
...our candidates. In Yorubaland it was Action Groups network of informal contacts which won the election. Not, however, in Ilesha, where it had no candidates and both Independents elected declared for NCNC, nor in Ibadan, where in the primaries only one...
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Five Elections in Africa
Book by W. J. M. Mackenzie, Kenneth Robinson; Clarendon Press, 1960
Subjects: Elections--Kenya, Elections--Nigeria, Elections--Senegal, Elections--Sierra Leone
...123,000 , Ife 111,000 , Iwo 100,000 , Abeokuta 82,000 , Ilesha 72,000 , and Oyo 72,000 . The tenth is Kano, a Hausa town...can affect party allegiances in a variety of other ways. In Ilesha, for example, there is a feeling that to support Action Group...
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Africa: Social Problems of Change and Conflict
Book by Pierre L. Van Den Berghe; Chandler Publishing, 1965
Subjects: Africa--Social Conditions
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Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa
Book by William Bascom; Indiana University Press, 1969
Subjects: Geomancy--Africa, West, Ifa (Religion), Yoruba (African People)--Religion
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journal articles on: Ilesha  - 6 results

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Elite Slaves in Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries*
Journal article by Ann O'Hear; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Armed forces, Slavery, Social classes
...through the intercession of his sister, who was a wife of Emir Abdusalami. She feared for his safety due to a war raging between Ilesha and Ibadan, and asked permission from the then emir (Abdusalami was not yet emir, according to this account) to bring her brother...
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Home-Town Linkages and Local Development in South-Western Nigeria Whose Agenda? What Impact?
Journal article by Lillian Trager; Africa, 1998
Subjects: Nigeria--Social aspects, Urban-rural migration--Social aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Social aspects
...research in Ilesa in the early 1970s, Peel asked a sample of household heads, `What do you think would now most bring progress to Ilesha? Many respondents said that they needed local employment, saying, `Let the government set up a factory (Peel, 1978: 158). Today...
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Management of Universal Basic Education Scheme (U.B.E.) for Qualitative Education in Nigeria
Journal article by Dare Michael Omotayo, Chioma Ihebereme, B.U. Maduewesi; Education, Vol. 129, 2008
Subjects: Back to basics curriculum--Management, Basic education--Management, Educational planning, Nigeria--Educational aspects
...the Study of Higher Education in Nigeria. London Macmillan Ltd. Olubadewa, S. (1992). Fundamental of Educational Management. Ilesha: Jola Publishing Co. Taiwo, C. (1998). An African contribution to education Ibadan Oxford University Press U.B.E (2000). Programmes...
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Causes of Inequalities in Educational Development among Nationalities in Nigeria
Journal article by Raymond O. A Aluede, Lawrence I. Aguele, Oyaziwo Aluede; Educational Research Quarterly, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: Conflicts of interest, Education, Inequality, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Nigeria, Progress
...1946. The Ibo Union established Ibo National College, Aba in 1948; Ijesha Improvement Union established Ijesha High School, Ilesha in 1934; and later Ijebu-Ijesha High School in 1955 (Kosemani, 1993). Other ethnic groups followed the examples of the ones...
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Murder and the Political Body in Early Colonial Ibadan
Journal article by Ruth Watson; Africa, Vol. 70, 2000
Subjects: British in Africa--Politics and government, Capital punishment--Nigeria, Colonies--Laws, regulations, etc., Nigeria--History, Political culture--Nigeria
...of the army literally refused to go into battle. For example, Johnson described their reluctance to launch a campaign against Ilesha in 1867: `Not from any love of Ilesa or fear of its almost impregnable forts, but rather that titles should be rearranged so...
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magazine articles on: Ilesha  - 1 result

 
 
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I Don't Want Anything Fake
Magazine article by Baffour Ankomah; New African, October 2006
Subjects: Kumuyi, William Folorunso--Interviews, Ministers (Clergy)--Interviews
...and one of them--in the southwest--is called Osun State. And in Osun State, there is a major town called Ilesha. A few kilometres from Ilesha is Erin-Ijesha. That is where I was born on 6 June 1941. Baffour Who, and what, were your parents? Kumuyi...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ilesha  - 3 results

 
 
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Ilesha
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ILESHA ela sha, city (1991 est. pop. 334,000), SW Nigeria. Formerly a caravan trade center, Ilesha is today an agricultural and commercial city. Cacao, kola...there. There is a sawmill, and alluvial gold is found. Ilesha was the capital of the Yoruba Ilesha kingdom of the...
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Oshogbo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...junction, and has an airport. Oshogbo was probably founded in the 17th cent. as a town in the Yoruba kingdom of Ijesha (see Ilesha ). In 1839 it was the site of a decisive battle in which Ibadan , a Yoruba city-state, defeated Ilorin , an expansionist...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...addition to Abuja and Lagos, other major cities include Aba , Abeokuta , Ado , Benin , Enugu , Ibadan , Ife , Ilesha , Ilorin , Iwo , Kaduna , Kano , Maiduguri , Mushin , Ogbomosho , Onitsha , Oshogbo , Port Harcourt , and...


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