Kiriji war: Liberates Ekiti, Ijesa, others
•Reasons for the civil war in Yorubaland; •Kiriji War united Ekiti people — Community Leader •How Fabunmi Adesoye led Ekiti warriors to battle •War of liberation, independence from Oyo, Ibadan; • How Oyo empire collapsed KIRIJI War , otherwise known as the Ekiti Parapo War, was a 16-year-old civil war between the sub-ethnic kingdoms of the Yoruba people specifically divided between the Western Yoruba. It was a war mainly between the Ibadan and Oyo-speaking Yoruba, who were the Ekiti, Ijesha, Ijebu people and others. The war which was also referred to as the War of Liberation officially started on July 30, 1877, and ended in 1886 in the Yoruba hinterland. The war was the longest intra-civil war in human history in Nigeria. Reasons for the war The main reason for the civil war was an attempt to halt the expansive efforts of the Ibadan city-state, which attempted to replace the Oyo Empire as the dominant region in Yoruba-land. Ibadan wanted a unified Yoruba nation similar to that of ...