How to kill a nation by destroying the souls of its nationalities, By Francis Adewale
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How to kill a nation by destroying the souls of its nationalities
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Share Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US, Akinwumi Ogundiran, is the author of ‘The Yoruba: A New History.’ The remarkable book, which was published in the last quarter of 2020 by Indiana University Press, provides a new way and style for imagining and writing Yoruba history. The academic shares some findings that challenge extant beliefs and knowledge in this e-conversation about the book. Excerpts:
CONGRATS on the publication of this seminal and interesting work titled ‘The Yoruba: A New History’. Could you please let us into how it came to be? The conception and execution?
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The wars Yoruba fight
By Yinka Odumakin
SOME of our supposed compatriots of Fulani extraction have been taunting Yoruba to war of late thinking that the people are a senseless group who will fight as a first resort without choosing their battles and weigh the cost of a war.
We have not forgotten so soon that when Nigeria had a misadventure of a civil war the heroes of that war were Benjamin Adekunle, Olusegun Obasanjo, Alani Akinrinade, Alabi Isama and others from Yoruba land. At the same time, some of their compatriots from Arewa land led troops which perished in the rivers as they had no war plan but followed the instructions of marabouts.