Ijebu People: Sharp Business-Like Sub-Yoruba Ethnic Grouping Who Were The Begin Yoruba To Convey Contact Amongst Europeans
THE Ijebu People are real enterprising, astute business-like as well as agriculturalist Yoruboid-speaking people that forms a sub-set of the larger Yoruba ethnic group, inhabiting the South-Central utilization of Yorubaland inwards South-Western Nigeria. The Ijebu people who constitute the largest ethnic grouping inwards the Yoruba dry reason reside specially inwards parts of Ogun as well as Lagos US of Nigeria.
Ijebu women of Ijebu-Ode with their awesome hairstyle at annual Ojude Oba festival inwards Ijebu Ode, Ijebu Ode local authorities expanse of Ogun State.
The Ijebu territory is bounded inwards the North past times Ibadan, inwards the East past times Ondo, Okitipupa as well as the West past times Egbaland. The Southern fringe is opened upwardly to the ocean with the coastlines of Epe, Ejinrin as well as Ikorodu. Despite the political partitioning which has these 3 towns inwards Lagos spell the principal utilization of Ijebuland remains inwards Ogun State, the people convey e'er regarded themselves every bit i entity fifty-fifty when the immigration legends which convey oftentimes been cited indicate inwards different directions. The Ijebu nation consisted of v divisions: Ijebu-Ife, Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu-Ososa as well as Ijebu-Remo.
The Ijebu people are identified with 4 types of oriki ({Ijebu}, a real of import oral poetic genre with the Yoruba people of Southwestern Nigeria): Apeja (oriki soki or cry version), Orufi (oriki) ulu praises of towns, Orufi gbajumo (praises of distinguished personalities), Orufi orisa (praises of gods) as well as Orufi Oba (praises of obas). The orufi establishes that the Ijebu people are a veritable link inwards the relations of the Yoruba people as well as the world.
The cry “Ijebu” was derived from the expression: “Ije-ibu” (food of the deep). The Ijebus themselves claim to convey descended from “Oba-nita,” thus, referring to themselves every bit “Ogetiele, eru Obanita” (that is, “Ogetiele, servants of Obanita”).
However, the people, dissimilar other Yoruba groups seems to convey different migration legends. One schoolhouse of idea tend to link the Ijebu with the biblical Jebusites as well as Noah (hence Omoluwabi -- omo ti Noah bi -- the children of Noah), the other legend every bit good line the root of Yoruba people, as well as past times implication, the Ijebu to Mecca where Oduduwa, the legendary ancestor of the Yoruba, was said to last the boy of King Lamurudu. Oduduwa, according to the legend, had to last expelled from Mecca when he resorted to idolatry. With the 3rd schoolhouse of thought, the Ijebu traditional historians tend to stick to the migration legend that the people migrated to their acquaint territory from a portion of Sudan called Waddai which way that the Ijebu had a parallel migration moving ridge simply similar other Yoruba who believe they came to their acquaint abode via Oduduwa. That claim seems to last corroborated past times a publication past times i Haile Mariam which states that "the most powerful people that the Negede Orit (ancient Ethiopian immigrants into Africa) met inwards East Africa were the Jebus." Their King was claimed to last as well as then influential that he appointed the governors of Yemen. If that virile someone monarch was the same Olu-Iwa, the legendary outset Ruler of Ijebuland, nosotros create non know.
Whatever last the case, most of Africans were i time settled inwards Mesopotamia as well as they all left to Arab Republic of Egypt and, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Sudan (Kush/Meroe). These house was the convergence indicate of most African ethnic groups earlier their dispersion or migration to their electrical flow settlements.
Ijebu people founded an ancient metropolis Ijebu-Ode which archaeological evidence has proved to last inwards beingness from A.D. 900. By the 15th century, Ijebu was a highly organized as well as powerful nation, as well as defended itself against enemies. Ijebu Empire was minute to Oyo’s empire inwards the 15th century.
There was already reference to it inwards the 16th century past times Pereira, who noted that “twelve or 13 leagues upwardly this river [the Lagos lagoon] is a real large metropolis called Geebuu, surrounded past times a keen moat. The ruler of this province inwards our fourth dimension is called Agusale [Awujale], as well as the merchandise is mainly inwards slaves ...but in that location is roughly ivory” (Pereira trans. Kimble, 1937: 123). By the 18th century, statements nearly the coastal merchandise of the Ijebu placed greater emphasis on the traffic inwards arts and crafts products. John Barbot (1732: 354), for instance, noted it every bit a house “where practiced fine cloths are made as well as sold past times the natives to foreigners, who convey a practiced vent for them at the Gold Coast…”
Annual Ojude Oba festival inwards Ijebu Ode, Ijebu Ode local authorities expanse of Ogun State.
More than the other Yoruba people, the Ijebu people convey had a long fourth dimension relation or the outset Yoruba people to convey contact with the Europeans inwards the early on 14th century. This is because the Ijebu are the sometime coastal traders/ middle-men for the European goods, variously acknowledged past times historians (Ajayi & Espie 1965), as well as every bit farther proved past times Biobaku (1972) ...Until the nineteenth century, European activities were restricted to the coast, as well as the alone Yoruba states of which Europeans had whatever first-hand cognition were Ijebu and, later, Lagos..." An evidence of Ijebu merchandise with European is found inwards excerpts from orufi Ijebu -Ode:
"Omo A-b’oyinbo jogu owo." (One whose forebears traded with Europeans
Omo Oyinbo Iyonro Offspring of the European at Iyonro
Ee mi gu’de ko mi gu’ba The brass as well as copper smith
Ko n gu naaaro If he did non smith inwards the morning
Ee gu n’ale" He would smith at night)
Iyonro is a sub-quarter of Uwade inwards Ijebu-0de. Odusino (2004: 10) says that Iyonro was the domicile of the outset laid of Ijebu people who learnt gold-smithing from Europeans. It was these Ijebu people who inwards plough taught the merchandise to others whence it got diffused to the other Yoruba people as well as other Nigerians.
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Ijebu women of Ijebu-Ode with their awesome hairstyle at annual Ojude Oba festival inwards Ijebu Ode, Ijebu Ode local authorities expanse of Ogun State.
The Ijebu territory is bounded inwards the North past times Ibadan, inwards the East past times Ondo, Okitipupa as well as the West past times Egbaland. The Southern fringe is opened upwardly to the ocean with the coastlines of Epe, Ejinrin as well as Ikorodu. Despite the political partitioning which has these 3 towns inwards Lagos spell the principal utilization of Ijebuland remains inwards Ogun State, the people convey e'er regarded themselves every bit i entity fifty-fifty when the immigration legends which convey oftentimes been cited indicate inwards different directions. The Ijebu nation consisted of v divisions: Ijebu-Ife, Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu-Ososa as well as Ijebu-Remo.
The Ijebu people are identified with 4 types of oriki ({Ijebu}, a real of import oral poetic genre with the Yoruba people of Southwestern Nigeria): Apeja (oriki soki or cry version), Orufi (oriki) ulu praises of towns, Orufi gbajumo (praises of distinguished personalities), Orufi orisa (praises of gods) as well as Orufi Oba (praises of obas). The orufi establishes that the Ijebu people are a veritable link inwards the relations of the Yoruba people as well as the world.
The cry “Ijebu” was derived from the expression: “Ije-ibu” (food of the deep). The Ijebus themselves claim to convey descended from “Oba-nita,” thus, referring to themselves every bit “Ogetiele, eru Obanita” (that is, “Ogetiele, servants of Obanita”).
However, the people, dissimilar other Yoruba groups seems to convey different migration legends. One schoolhouse of idea tend to link the Ijebu with the biblical Jebusites as well as Noah (hence Omoluwabi -- omo ti Noah bi -- the children of Noah), the other legend every bit good line the root of Yoruba people, as well as past times implication, the Ijebu to Mecca where Oduduwa, the legendary ancestor of the Yoruba, was said to last the boy of King Lamurudu. Oduduwa, according to the legend, had to last expelled from Mecca when he resorted to idolatry. With the 3rd schoolhouse of thought, the Ijebu traditional historians tend to stick to the migration legend that the people migrated to their acquaint territory from a portion of Sudan called Waddai which way that the Ijebu had a parallel migration moving ridge simply similar other Yoruba who believe they came to their acquaint abode via Oduduwa. That claim seems to last corroborated past times a publication past times i Haile Mariam which states that "the most powerful people that the Negede Orit (ancient Ethiopian immigrants into Africa) met inwards East Africa were the Jebus." Their King was claimed to last as well as then influential that he appointed the governors of Yemen. If that virile someone monarch was the same Olu-Iwa, the legendary outset Ruler of Ijebuland, nosotros create non know.
Whatever last the case, most of Africans were i time settled inwards Mesopotamia as well as they all left to Arab Republic of Egypt and, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Sudan (Kush/Meroe). These house was the convergence indicate of most African ethnic groups earlier their dispersion or migration to their electrical flow settlements.
Ijebu people founded an ancient metropolis Ijebu-Ode which archaeological evidence has proved to last inwards beingness from A.D. 900. By the 15th century, Ijebu was a highly organized as well as powerful nation, as well as defended itself against enemies. Ijebu Empire was minute to Oyo’s empire inwards the 15th century.
There was already reference to it inwards the 16th century past times Pereira, who noted that “twelve or 13 leagues upwardly this river [the Lagos lagoon] is a real large metropolis called Geebuu, surrounded past times a keen moat. The ruler of this province inwards our fourth dimension is called Agusale [Awujale], as well as the merchandise is mainly inwards slaves ...but in that location is roughly ivory” (Pereira trans. Kimble, 1937: 123). By the 18th century, statements nearly the coastal merchandise of the Ijebu placed greater emphasis on the traffic inwards arts and crafts products. John Barbot (1732: 354), for instance, noted it every bit a house “where practiced fine cloths are made as well as sold past times the natives to foreigners, who convey a practiced vent for them at the Gold Coast…”
Annual Ojude Oba festival inwards Ijebu Ode, Ijebu Ode local authorities expanse of Ogun State.
More than the other Yoruba people, the Ijebu people convey had a long fourth dimension relation or the outset Yoruba people to convey contact with the Europeans inwards the early on 14th century. This is because the Ijebu are the sometime coastal traders/ middle-men for the European goods, variously acknowledged past times historians (Ajayi & Espie 1965), as well as every bit farther proved past times Biobaku (1972) ...Until the nineteenth century, European activities were restricted to the coast, as well as the alone Yoruba states of which Europeans had whatever first-hand cognition were Ijebu and, later, Lagos..." An evidence of Ijebu merchandise with European is found inwards excerpts from orufi Ijebu -Ode:
"Omo A-b’oyinbo jogu owo." (One whose forebears traded with Europeans
Omo Oyinbo Iyonro Offspring of the European at Iyonro
Ee mi gu’de ko mi gu’ba The brass as well as copper smith
Ko n gu naaaro If he did non smith inwards the morning
Ee gu n’ale" He would smith at night)
Iyonro is a sub-quarter of Uwade inwards Ijebu-0de. Odusino (2004: 10) says that Iyonro was the domicile of the outset laid of Ijebu people who learnt gold-smithing from Europeans. It was these Ijebu people who inwards plough taught the merchandise to others whence it got diffused to the other Yoruba people as well as other Nigerians.
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