OGBOMOSHO

ōbooˈmôshô, ŏgbōmōˈshō, city (1991 pop. 644,000), SW Nigeria. It is the trade center for a farming region. Yams, cassava, corn, and tobacco are grown. Cotton is grown and used to weave cloth. Ogbomosho was founded in the 17th cent. It resisted Fulani invasions in the early 19th cent. and grew by absorbing refugees from towns destroyed by the Fulani. A teachers college is in the city.

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books on: Ogbomosho  - 32 results

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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
...are held by Lagos, Iseyin, Ilorin, and Oyo. Ogbomosho, the lowest ranking TABLE 3. YORUBA CITIES OVER...6 4. Ede 11.6 4. OYO 1,061 5. Ede 43 5. OGBOMOSHO 36.4 5. OGBOMOSHO 12.0 5. OGBOMOSHO 995 6. Abeokuta 42 6. Iwo...
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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
...Onitsha Urban constituency; Waterside Ogbomosho North constituency, registration sex...449 ; registration and result, 220 Ogbomosho Parapo Federal Council, relations with Action Group, 132 Ogbomosho Progressive Union, 381 Ogbomosho South...
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Political Africa: A Who's Who of Personalities and Parties
Book by Ronald Segal, Catherine Hoskyns, Rosalynde Ainslie; Frederick A. Praeger, 1961
Subjects: Africa--Biography, Political Parties--Africa
...Western Region of Nigeria. Born in 1910 at Ogbomosho, son of a poor Yoruba trader, he went...he went to the Baptist Day School in Ogbomosho and then qualified as a teacher at the...in 1943, and became the leader of the Ogbomosho Progressive Union, a local reform society...
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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
...had emigrated first to Liberia in 1847 and then moved to Ogbomosho; and J. M. Harden, with Liberian experience and a Sierra Leonean wife, kept the Baptist congregations in Ogbomosho and Lagos alive. Soon the Revd Moses Ladejo Stone emerged...
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West Africa: A Study of the Environment and of Man's Use of It
Book by R. J. Harrison Church; John Wiley & Sons, 1968
Subjects: Human Geography--Africa, West
...and to under 50 in the north-west. There are few towns, Ogbomosho, a marginal town, being the largest. Low population density...crops are tobacco grown for the Ibadan factory around Shaki, Ogbomosho, Oyo and Ipetu-Ijesha, the last three producing darker...
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journal articles on: Ogbomosho  - 5 results

 
 
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Building Urban Local Governance Fiscal Autonomy through Property Taxation Financing Option
Journal article by Bioye Tajudeen Aluko; International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Vol. 9, 2005
Subjects: Africa, Developing countries--LDCs, Government spending, Infrastructure, Local government, Property taxes, Social services, Sovereignty, Tax reform, Tax revenues, Urban planning
...important internal revenue source is the property tax, which is not even collected in some other large cities, such as Kano, Ogbomosho and Sokoto" The above has positive implication towards building or improving the financial autonomy of our local governments...
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Nickels in the Nation Sack: Continuity in Africana Spiritual Technologies
Journal article by Teresa N. Washington; The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online), Vol. 3, 2010
...mirrors and other visible as well as buried devices have their sources in Africa. Among the Yoruba, the Baale (Chief) of Ogbomosho has protective Gods surrounding his home and a barrier of spiritual implements installed in the ground "from one side of...
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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
...means to help control the settlement and resettlement of land around the city. South of Ilorin, settlers from the city of Ogbomosho were said to have been gradually driven out and Ilorin settlers established under the leadership of the Balogun Alanamu and...
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Patriarchies, Prophets, and Procreation: Sources of Gender Practices in Three African Churches
Journal article by Deidre Helen Crumbley; Africa, Vol. 73, 2003
Subjects: Church--Social aspects, Sex discrimination against women--Case studies
...to the propagation of the gospel (Gaitskell, 2000: 279-282). Based on twenty-seven years of missionary work among Ogbomosho Yoruba in the Southern Baptist Nigerian Convention, retired nurse and seminary professor Ann Neil observes that although...
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Education, Ethnicity and National Integration in the History of Nigeria: Continuing Problems of Africa's Colonial Legacy
Journal article by Thomas J. Davis, Azubike Kalu-Nwiwu; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 86, 2001
Subjects: Colonialism--Influence, Nigeria--History
...contained five of the eight existing secondary schools. Two of the remaining three were at southern inland sites--at Ogbomosho and Oyo, both within 130 miles (200 kilometers) of Lagos and on a major trading lane to the port. The other secondary...


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A Checklist That's Saving Lives
Magazine article by Eric Vohr; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 280, November 2008
Subjects: Airline industry, Catheters, Deaths, Hospital systems, Hospitals, Intensive care, Layoffs, Medical personnel, Medicine, Patients, Water purification
...Vohr When Peter Pronovost was a fourth-year medical student at Johns Hopkins, he worked briefly in a mission hospital in Ogbomosho, Nigeria. On any given day, hundreds of people lined up outside the clinic. While treating cases, he realized many problems...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ogbomosho  - 2 results

 
 
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Ogbomosho
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OGBOMOSHO oboo mosho, ogbomo sho, city (1991 pop. 644,000), SW Nigeria...corn, and tobacco are grown. Cotton is grown and used to weave cloth. Ogbomosho was founded in the 17th cent. It resisted Fulani invasions in the early...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...include Aba , Abeokuta , Ado , Benin , Enugu , Ibadan , Ife , Ilesha , Ilorin , Iwo , Kaduna , Kano , Maiduguri , Mushin , Ogbomosho , Onitsha , Oshogbo , Port Harcourt , and Zaria . Nigeria is easily the most populous nation in Africa and one of the fastest...


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