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21 local governments · 10 stories
Local government…
Abeokuta North · 2
Abeokuta South · 2
Ado-Odo/Ota
Ewekoro · 1
Ifo
Ijebu East
Ijebu North
Ijebu North East · 1
Ijebu Ode · 2
Ikenne
Imeko Afon
Ipokia
Obafemi Owode
Odeda
Odogbolu
Ogun Waterside
Remo North
Sagamu · 1
Shagamu
Yewa North
Yewa South · 1
10 stories
01
Place name · Ogun
The city under a rock
How Abeokuta got its name →
02
Lost history · Ogun
The farmers who tore up the railway
The Adubi War, 1918 →
03
Legend · Ogun
The great ditch of a childless queen
Sungbo's Eredo →
04
Place name · Ogun
The house in Barbados named after a Nigerian town
Ilaro Court, Barbados →
05
Lost history · Ogun
Ten thousand women at the king's gate
The Abeokuta Women's Revolt →
06
Custom · Ogun
The week Ijebu women are told to stay indoors
Agemo, the masquerade women must not see →
07
Custom · Ogun
The thank-you that became Ijebu's biggest party
Ojude Oba, Ijebu-Ode →
08
Lost history · Ogun
Sagamu was never one town
Sagamu's thirteen towns →
09
Legend · Ogun
The crown that stayed hidden for 21 years
The hidden crown of Owu →
10
Custom · Ogun
Tea-chest tin, cassava paste and a king's jubilee
Adire, the indigo cloth of Abeokuta →