The beads over his face, with their interplay of light and shadow, are meant to give him a divine aspect. This is unusual, for the oba is like a god and must be concealed when in public. The oba wears a beaded crown, but the beads have been parted and his face is visible. On the other side is the Ijebu king, or oba, probably the Awujale of the Ijebu kingdom, Oba Ademuyewo Fidipote. On one side of him is another high-ranking colonial officer. The white governor of Lagos - based on the plausible dates, it is probably John Hawley Glover - sits under an enormous umbrella. This photograph was made in the aftermath. In any case, the Ijebu in the mid-19th century were largely wealthy traders and farmers who did not want to give the British right of way to the interior of the country only through diplomacy, subterfuge and violence were they finally overcome. He had this to say about Yoruba people: “They are reasonable, brave and patriotic, and are capable of a very high degree of intellectual culture.” It is praise, but must be understood in the context of a statement he makes earlier in his book about living “among the barbarous people” of that part of the world. Stone, a Virginian sent by the Southern Baptist Convention, lived among them - lived among us - for two spells, in 1859-69, before, during and after the American Civil War.
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The Yoruba were already by that time a populous and diverse ethnic group, full of rivalrous kingdoms large and small, some friendly to the British, others less so. They then turned their efforts to improving access to the goods and services in the Yoruba hinterland. This picture is a time capsule from a world to which I am connected but had not seen before, a world by colonial encounter.īy the middle of the 19th century, through treaties and threats of force, the British had wrested control of the coastal city Lagos from its king. That catches my attention: I am Yoruba and also Ijebu. “Ejayboo” is what we would nowadays spell as “Ijebu,” a subgroup of Yoruba. For years the rulers of this fierce tribe made the profession of Christianity a capital crime.” This description is familiar in tone from anthropological literature of the period, though the photograph is hard to date precisely. The caption below the photograph reads: “A king of Ejayboo. It shows a crowd in what is now Nigeria, but what was then Yorubaland under British colonial influence. Later, I tracked it down to its original source: “In Afric’s Forest and Jungle: Or Six Years Among the Yorubans,” a memoir published in 1899 by the Rev.
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