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21 local governments · 10 stories

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 →