Yewa

Ethnic group

Yewa (Ẹgbado)Total population

~ 907,370 (2011)
Regions with significant populations
Ogun State - 907,370
* Imeko Afon: 97,830
* Yewa North: 216,820
* Yewa South: 198,530
* Yewa North: 216,820
* Ipokia: 177,370
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The Ẹgbado (Morphology: Ẹgba lo s'odo), now Yewa, are a subgroup of the Yoruba people and mostly inhabit the eastern area of Ogun West Senatorial District, Ogun State, in south-west Nigeria, Africa. In 1995, the group's name was changed to Yewa after the Yewa River, the river (odo) they foraged towards. The name of this river is derived from the Yoruba goddess Yewa. Yewa/Ẹgbado mainly occupy four Local Government Areas in Ogun State, Yewa South, Yewa North, Imeko-Afon, and Ipokia, while the Ado-Odo/Ota LGA forms the fifth Awori part of the senatorial district. Other Yewa/Ẹgbado are located in Lagos West, Lagos East, Oyo North, and Oyo South senatorial zones.

Nigeria, administrative divisions. LOC 94686058

Before the creation of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate, Egba territory and people is bordered by the Ketu (Benin) in the West, the Lagos Colony in south, Ijebu in the east, and Oyo, Ibadan and Isoya near Ile Ife in the north. The people are directly connected to the Ogun River, but detached from the swampy coast of Lagos. Through the Egba land, there are direct routes to other Yoruba towns, including Lagos, Ibadan, Ijebu-Ode, Ketu (Benin), and Porto Novo (Àjàṣẹ́) in the Benin Republic.[1] [2]

## History

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The Ẹgbado appear to have migrated - possibly from the Ketu, Ile-Ife, or Oyo \- to their current area early in the 14th to 18th century. Ẹgbado towns, most importantly Ipokia, Ado Odo, Ayetoro, Imeko Afon, Ilaro, and Igbogila, were established in the 11th to 18th century to take advantage of the slave trade routes from the inland Oyo empire to the coast at Porto-Novo. Other towns were Ilobi and Ijanna, which were strategic in protecting the flanks of the slaving routes. The Ẹgbados' were subject to the rule of the Oyo kingdom, which managed them via governor Onisare of Joanna. The Oyo were unable to deploy their cavalry force to protect the routes, due to tsetse fly and lack of horse fodder and thus had to rely on the Ẹgbado and Ẹgba people to manage the routes. The historians Akinjogbin, Morton-Williams, and Smith all agree that by the early 18th century this route to the coast was heavily engaged in slave trading and that slaves were the mainstay of the Oyo economy.

The Ẹgbado later achieved a fragile independence after the fall of the Oyo kingdom, but were subject to frequent attacks from other groups such as the slave-raiding Dahomey (who seized, among others, Princess Sara Forbes Bonetta), and various tribes who wished to force open their own slave-trading routes to the sea. Ilaro and Ijanna towns had been destroyed in the 1830s. By the 1840s the Ẹgbado had come under the control of the adjacent Egba group, who used the Ẹgbado territory to forge routes to Badagry and the ports of Lagos. By the 1860s the Egba abandoned the route because the British were actively using their formidable navy to try to abolish the slave trade. Consequently, the Egba expelled British missionaries and traders from the area in 1867.

After 1890 the Ẹgbado asked for a British protectorate and got a small armed garrison, thus becoming independent of the Egba. This area became part of the British Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, as Ẹgbado Division in Abeokuta Province. The administrative headquarters were later transferred away, after the creation of the new Ogun State, which subsumed the old Abeokuta Province.

## The modern Ẹgbado/Yewa

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In 1995 the Ẹgbado chose to rename themselves the "Yewa", after the name of the Yewa River that passes through the area they inhabit. They are primarily agriculturalists, but there is some artisan and textile processings. They are located mainly in the areas of: Ado-Odo/Ota, Ipokia, Yewa South, Yewa North, Imeko Afon, and part of Abeokuta North. There were complaints that the system of patronage and nepotism in Nigerian politics has caused the area to be neglected in terms of investment.[3]

The area developed a popular style of music, called Bolojo, in the 1970s.

The Yewa Villages and Towns are also in Lagos State. The Olu of Ipaja, Lagos State is Yewa's.

The Population of people living in Yewa South, Yewa North, Ipokia, Imeko Afon, Ado Oddo /Otta Local Government Areas are above Three Millions people.

Ado-Odo / Otta Local Government Area is the most populated Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Source : Nigerian Census Population Commission.[citation needed]

Source of Reference: Yewa People Development Council.

Notable Yewa Individuals.

1\. Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola FCA, CON. Senator, Ogun West Senatorial District.

2\. Honourable Olambitan. Honourable Commissioner For Budget and Economic Planning, Ogun State.

3\. Honourable Jagunmola Akande Omoniyi FCA. Honourable Commissioner For Housing, Ogun State.

4\. Oba Dr Kehinde Gbadewole Olugbenle MFR, Asade Agunloye IV. The Olu Ilaro, Olu Yewa, Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, Ogun State.

5\. Inspector General Kayode Egbetokun. Inspector General of Police, Nigeria.

6\. Honourable Isiaq Salako. Honourable Minister for State Environment. Nigeria.

7\. Senator Kola Bajomo. Former Senator, Ogun West Senatorial District.

8\. Senator Iyabo Anisulowo. Former Senator, Ogun West Senatorial District.

9\. Late Brigadier General Tunji Olurin. Former Military Administrator of Oyo State and Former Civilian Administrator of Ekiti State.

10\. Professor Rahman Bello. Former Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos.

## References

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1. ^ Fenske, James (1830). Land abundance and economic institutions: Egba land and slavery. The Economic History Review. p. 65. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
2. ^ Ogunhemi, Gabriel Ogundeji (1982). Counting the Camels: The Economics of Transportation in PreIndustrial Nigeria. Nok Publishers. p. 64. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
3. ^ Olatunji, Olusegun (2016-05-10). The History of Yewa in Ogun State in the 20th Century. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3-659-88437-5.

Yewa People Development Council.

## Further reading

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* Ogunsiji, O. (1988). Pastoralism in Ẹgbado division of Ogun State. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
* Kola Folayan. (1967). "Ẹgbado to 1832: the birth of a dilemma", Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 4, pp. 15–34.
* Anthony I. A. and Niran O.(2015). "Yewaland: One Hundred Years Before and After 2014" Yewa Descendants Union, Abuja

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