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Arabic Papers From the Olubadan Chancery I: A Rebellion of the Ibadan Chieftains or at the Origins of Yoruba Arabic Prose

Ibadan, the capital of the most powerful military state of the Yoruba in the nineteenth century, underwent profound chang es during the colonial period. After its formal incorporation into the British Empire by an agreement signed in 1893, power shifted to the British who came to establish an uneasy partnership with the local hierarchy of political and military leaders. For a troublesome period of 21 years (1913-34) Ibadan was even placed under the authority of the alaafin of Qyo, whose symbolic overlordship, boosted and managed by the British Resident Captain Ross, was turned into an instrume…