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In this dissertation I argue that Ogun is a metaphor of the Yoruba conception of human transformative power and human identity. While this conception of the human is distinctly Yoruba, many of its basic tenets are universal. Ogun represents the legitimation and expansion of huma…

This study, which covers the period between AD 1200 and 1837, addresses the development of chiefdoms in northcentral Yorubaland, particularly the appearance of social complexity among the Igbomina. According to the historical model of state-village interaction, chiefly office em…