ISAKOLE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND CONFLICTS IN COLONIAL YORUBALAND

dc.contributor.authorAjiola, F.O
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-23T11:47:40Z
dc.date.available2022-09-23T11:47:40Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionScholarly articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper, with a focus on the people of the Nigerian towns of Idanre and Akure, (re)considers the genesis of land conflicts in eastern Yorubaland of colonial south western Nigeria. The historical method was deployed. Primary sources, notably archival records from the National Archive, Ibadan, the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Owena, and farmers’ unions in the two communities, were used. Memories of the descendants of cocoa farmers were collected, paying attention to the growth of cocoa cultivation and the historical relations between Idanre and Akure people in the precolonial period, in addition to secondary sources which were subjected to historical analysis. The expansion of cocoa farms and the ensuing rivalry over the collection of Isakole, an indigenous form of tribute or ground rent, instigated acrimonies among Idanre and Akure Chiefs throughout the colonial period. The animosities culminated, however, in unresolved inter-community disputes and land conflicts between Idanre and Akure. The imbroglio, which affected the rhythms of agricultural life in the two communities, was not only a subject of protracted litigation and arbitration; it claimed an immense number of lives and valuable properties on both sides in the colonial period. The paper argues that the land conflicts were fuelled by unmitigated competition for Isakole between Idanre and Akure chiefs, but the divisive posture of the British colonial authorities over the jostling exacerbated the conflict.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAjiola, F.O, (2021), Isakole and the transformation of agricultural land conflicts in colonial Yorubaland, Southern Journal for Contemporary History 2021 46(2):68-88en_US
dc.identifier.issn2415-0509
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/11529
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouthern Journal for Contemporary Historyen_US
dc.subjectIsakoleen_US
dc.subjecttributeen_US
dc.subjectland conflicten_US
dc.subjectcocoa cultivationen_US
dc.subjecttaxationen_US
dc.subjectBritish colonial capitalismen_US
dc.subjectIdanre-Akureen_US
dc.subjectYorubaland.en_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjectsen_US
dc.titleISAKOLE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND CONFLICTS IN COLONIAL YORUBALANDen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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