Oyo Empire

theories and related literature. 2.1 ELEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN OYO The concept of heritage connotes legacy from the past, what people live with today, and what they intend passing on to the future generations.(Oladayo, 2013). Culture is the totality of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group.(Daniell, 2004). 2.1.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF OYO TOWN According to traditions, Oyo started from a great Yoruba ancestor and hero, Oduduwa, who migrated

African World” by Olakunle George (Criticism 207-222) in your essay. The Real Tragic Hero Of The Nation The drama “Death and the King’s Horseman” written by Wole Soyinka tells a story that relates to the burial of the dead king of the Oyo, which is held by the ancient Yoruba in Africa. According to the tradition of the Yoruba, after thirty-day of the king’s death, his horseman Elesin must commit suicide in the rite in order to accompany the king passing through the holy passage towards

! "# $ ! % % & ' (!%%& Using Nigeria Agricultural Cooperative and Rural Development Bank small holder direct loan scheme to increase agricultural production in rural Oyo State, Nigeria 1 1 Oyeyinka, R. A. and K. K. 2Bolarinwa Department of Agricultural Education,Federal College of Education (Special), P. M. B. 1089, Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. E-mail: drraoye@yahoo.com 2 Department of Agricultural Administration, College of Agricultural Management and Rural Development University of Agriculture

Nigeria contains more historic cultures and empires than any other nation in Africa. They date as far back as the 5th Century BC when communities lived around the southern slopes of the Jos plateau, which are now called the Nok people. The first important centralized state to influence Nigeria was Kanem-Bornu, which was founded in the 8th century AD. By the 11th century Kanem-Bornu expanded into present-day Nigeria, and in the 15th century, its capital was moved there. In the late 15th century the

representation of Solon and in his own poetry, Solon is a wise man who devotes his entire life to his objectives and warns foolish leaders of their irresponsibility. He offers a political ideology about the rise and fall of powerful men and great empires. This can be briefly summarized by Herodotus when he says “human prosperity never abides long in the same place” (Herodotus 1.5.3-4). However, the representations of Solon are in some ways different. For example, the Herodotean version uses anecdotes

The Fall of Empires The empire of Alexander the Great was amazing while he was alive but shortly fell apart when he died. His empire fell apart for numerous reasons, The first main reason was he left no heir to rule over the nations. Instead he said something that made it worse, when he was asked who should rule he responded to the strongest(Arrian12). The generals all thought they were the strongest so the fought over it. Another reason the empire fell apart was the citizens of each nation he conquered

The concept of imperialism is one that has pervaded nearly every major society or empire throughout human history. It seems to be a natural consequence of societies growing in size, power, and knowledge. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries vast changes occurred in Western Europe (and soon spread elsewhere) that spurred a new round of imperialism the likes of which had not been seen before. The changes were the industrial revolution that was taking place. Countries were rapidly advancing to

Thousand of years ago, the world was in chaotic where there were two empires fought to spread their influences and territory. The empires had fought for a long time since their ancestors. The Satanic Empire was known for its barbarous, merciless prevail while its foe, the Midgard Empire, was known for its equality, harmonic reign. Even though both empires had different ways of ruling, they both had arisen a great and superior civilization of all time. Nevertheless, they never reached a consensus

Peoples and Empires Throughout history there have been a multitude of different empires to rise up and conquer land, along with the people inhabiting that land. More often than not, these empires fell. Whether the empire was quickly abolished, or it maintained power for decades, most of them were over thrown. Anthony Pagden, who at the time of publication was a history professor at John Hopkins, wrote the book Peoples and Empires in 2003 to explain the history of the once “Great European Empires”. These

helped shaped our modern world. The three factors that conceptualized shaped our modern world are religion, money, and empire. These three things have shaped our world modern world in different ways such as; religion influencing our laws and people’s perspective of how to live with different cultures. Money has had positive and negative effects on creating our modern world. As for empire it created a foundation of what we call today our modern day government. Even though these few factors have shaped