For centuries,Many civil war has been fought,we have both the loser and the winner,but the kiriji war remains one of the longest civil war ever.
The Yoruba culture is filled with many tales of victory and Betrayal..like Every war that has been fought.The kiriji war was a War between the people of Yoruba land that is the people of ibadan who want expansion and unity and the ekiti people who choose autonomy.
After the fall the Oyo empire which has dominated the Yorubaland for more that 500yrs.Ibadan which was once a military camp of the Oyo empire started an expansion expenditure to try and dominate the other Yoruba states,by imposing tax and other Levi in return the Ibadan forces will defend these states..the Ekiti people go tired of the war they were been treated by the Ibadan forces.so they killed some of them..these angered the Ibadan commander the great Aare kankafo (chief of Arm staff) Latosa to deploy his forces to quench the unrest in ekiti.
But the ekiti people already joined hand with other Yoruba forces to rebel against the ibadan forces,.the forces was later know as the ekiti parapo which was comprises of ekiti, ijesha,Ife,ikirun,ilorin and so on..
So of the commander of the ekiti-parapo forces at the right Conner is ogendegbe.
the war started,the ekiti-parapo was lead by the great ogendegbe while the Ibadan forces was lead by the Aare Latosa..
The civil war lasted for 16yrs and these war saw the use of modern warfare technique and weapon.the war was later ended by the intervention of the British empire.who called the two party together and gave autonomy to the Ekiti people.
Location where the peace treaty was signed which ended the war.
There are so many history about the Yoruba people culture that still surprises me.with time I will be writing about some of it.
