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Encyclopedia Britannica



IBADAN

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 216 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IBADAN , a town of British West Africa, in Yorubaland, Southern Nigeria, 123 M. by rail N.E. of Lagos, and about 50 M. N.E. of Abeokuta. Pop. (1910 estimated at 150,000. The town occupies the slope of a hill, and stretches into the valley
through which the river Ona flows. It is enclosed by mud walls, which have a circuit of 18 m., and is encompassed by cultivated land 5 or 6 m. in breadth. The native houses are all low, thatched structures, enclosing a square court, and the only break in the mud
wall
  is the
door
 . There are numerous mosques, orishas (idol-houses) and open spaces shaded with trees. There are a few buildings in the European style. Most of the inhabitants are engaged in agriculture ; but a
great
  variety of handicrafts is also carried on. Ibadan is the
capital
  of one of the Yoruba states and enjoys a large measure of autonomy. Nominally the state is subject to the alafin (ruler) of Oyo; but it is virtually independent. The administration is in the hands of two chiefs, a civil and a military, the bale and the balogun; these together form the highest court of appeal. There is also an iyaloda or mother of the town, to whom are submitted all the disputes of the women. Ibadan long had a
feud
  with Abeokuta, but on the
establishment
  of the British protectorate the intertribal wars were stopped. In 1862 the people of Ibadan destroyed ljaya, a neighbouring town of 6o,000 inhabitants. A British
resident
  and a detachment of Hausa troops are stationed at Ibadan.
See also YORUBAS, ABEOKUTA and LAGOS.


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