ILORIN

ēlôˈrēn, city (1991 est. pop. 420,000), SW Nigeria. It is an industrial city and the market (especially for cattle, poultry, palm products, and yams) and transport center for a wide region. Manufactures include cigarettes, matches, and sugar. Traditional artisans make woven goods, tin products, wood carvings, and pottery. Ilorin was the capital of a Yoruba kingdom that, with the assistance of the Fulani, successfully rebelled against the Oyo empire in 1817 but soon thereafter was incorporated into the Fulani state of Sokoto. Through warfare against Oyo and Ibadan in the later 19th cent., Ilorin considerably increased its territory. In 1897 it was conquered by troops of the British-chartered Royal Niger Company led by Sir George Goldie.

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books on: Ilorin  - 174 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
...to the north. 2 Further west lay Ilorin, the one Yoruba city-state which, after...have also made use of the Gazetteer of Ilorin Province 1930 by H. Hermon Hodge...the Hausa, and had actually joined the Ilorin Yoruba against the Fulani in 1837, though...
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Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria
Book by Gerald S. Graham, John E. Flint; Oxford University Press, 1960
Subjects: Goldie, George Dashwood Taubman--Sir--1846-1925, Nigeria--History
...216 11. THE WAR AGAINST NUPE AND ILORIN 243 12. CRISIS 264...221 5. The War against Nupe and Ilorin 1897 251 6. The Anglo-French...
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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
...unassimilated by the emirates and the Islamic faith. Others, such as the 1,300,000 Nupe in Bida Division or the 500,000 Yorubas of Ilorin Province, had become Muslims and the subjects of Fulani rulers. Thus all three Regions were culturally and linguistically...
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Nigeria and Ghana
Book by John E. Flint; Prentice-Hall, 1966
Subjects: Ghana--History, Nigeria--History
...significant role in Yoruba history. In Ilorin the people actually are Yoruba in every sense. The Borgu, Nupe, and Ilorin peoples, however, have all been profoundly...influenced by Islam, and Nupe and Ilorin have rulers descended from Fulani stock...
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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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journal articles on: Ilorin  - 58 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
Elite Slaves in Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries...article focuses on the elite slaves of Ilorin, formerly a southern frontier emirate...intermediaries (baba kekere)1 providing access to Ilorins emirs; that they became involved in and...
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Ann O'Hear, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors
Journal article by J.D.Y. Peel; Africa, Vol. 73, 2003
Ann OHear, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. by...ANN OHEAR, Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin slaves and their successors. Rochester...sterling ($65.00), ISBN 1 87882 2861. Ilorin is an interesting place, since, as the...
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Arabic Writing between Global and Local Culture: Scholars and Poets in Yorubaland (Southwestern Nigeria)
Journal article by Razaq D. Abubakre, Stefan Reichmuth; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...the emergence of an Islamic Emirate in Ilorin in northern Yorubaland which finally...cosmopolitan community of Islamic scholars in Ilorin, which apart from the Yoruba included...pervaded the whole society of the town. Ilorin remained in close interaction with the...
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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
...following year was `Nje Bower koni si ogun Ilorin yi fun wa? `Will not Captain Bower open an Ilorin campaign for us? To be at home with nothing...ambitions were quashed with the defeat of Ilorin by the forces of the Royal Niger Company...
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The Arabic Literary Tradition of Nigeria
Journal article by John Hunwick; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...to Zaria or Kano, or southwards to Ilorin, a city established as the most southerly...the 1830s. In the twentieth century, Ilorin emerged as one of the major centers of...Ijebu-Ode, and Lagos on the other. Two Ilorin scholars have been especially active...
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When Sharia Becomes the Law of the Land NIGERIA KNOWS THE FUTURE
Magazine article by Leo Igwe; Free Inquiry, Vol. 20, Fall 2000
Subjects: Islam and state--Nigeria, Islamic law--Nigeria, Nigeria--Politics and government
...fundamentalists advocating Sharia razed many hotels belonging to non-Muslims in Katsina, and torched Christian places of worship in Ilorin. If Sharia is eventually adopted all over Nigeria, the country will turn to a safe haven for Islamic fundamentalists, and become...
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Nigeria: Yar'Adua Will Step Down If ... President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Took Office in May This Year under the Shadow of a Disputed Election, but after Six Months in Office, the Former University Don Has Shown That He Is Quietly Asserting His Own Authority. but There Is a Threat Hanging over His Head. Joseph King Reports from Abuja
Magazine article by Joseph King; New African, December 2007
Subjects: Political history, Presidents (Government)--Evaluation, Presidents--Evaluation, Yar'Adua, Umaru Musa--Evaluation
...stopped the sale of the countrys refineries as a mark of respect for the people. The recall of lecturers of the University Of Ilorin (in north-central Nigeria) is commendable," Eko said. "This issue had lingered throughout Obasanjos eight years but YarAdua...


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newspaper articles on: Ilorin  - 2 results

 
 
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MISSING ... and FOUND!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 9, 2006
...the jeeps as we didnt have the funds for all of them to continue. After two weeks of beach life in Lagos, we boarded the SS Ilorin Palm for Luanda in Angola, which was then a Portuguese colony with guerrilla war problems. We made it through the dense bush...
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University Results 2004
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), July 13, 2004
...BSc (Bradford) Pui Yan Lee, BSc (City University of Hong Kong) Jaime Mayor-Ramis, BSc (Aston) Victoria Omirinde, BSc (Ilorin) Lorna Anne Rees, BSc (Wales) Elaine Judith Rosier, BSc (Wales) Martina Ruprecht, BSc (Loughborough) Jemma Sarah Scapens...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ilorin  - 3 results

 
 
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Ilorin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ILORIN elo ren, city (1991 est. pop. 420,000), SW Nigeria...woven goods, tin products, wood carvings, and pottery. Ilorin was the capital of a Yoruba kingdom that, with the assistance...warfare against Oyo and Ibadan in the later 19th cent., Ilorin considerably increased its territory. In 1897 it was conquered...
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Oshogbo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1839 it was the site of a decisive battle in which Ibadan , a Yoruba city-state, defeated Ilorin , an expansionist Fulani state, thus halting Ilorins southward advance. An influx of refugees after the battle swelled Oshogbos population...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 Zaria...


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