October 4, 2021
Ancestral City Identity
Pre-Colonial Origins:
Ancestral City Identity
Competing identities
at end of 19th century…
Even though, at turn of the 20th century
Most Yoruba are Christian (40%) or Muslim (40%)
By late 20th century…
What might explain the persistence of ancestral cities as both a ethnic category and as the activated ethnic identity?
British Colonial State intervened, using a system of indirect rule: