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Egba (Abeokuta)

Refugee confederacy of Egba townships under the Olumo rock, which beat off Dahomey twice and kept a recognized independent government until 1914.

The loose Egba confederacy was formalized as the Egba United Government, recognized by the Lagos Colony governor; its independence — long protected by treaty, including the boundary agreement signed at Abeokuta on 5 January 1894 — was extinguished when Egbaland was absorbed into the amalgamated Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914.

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Further reading

• The Egba and Their Neighbours, 1842-1872 Saburi O. Biobaku · 1957

  The standard monograph on the Egba state at Abeokuta, its wars with Dahomey and Ibadan, and its missionary-brokered diplomacy.

• The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate Samuel Johnson · 1921

  Contains the eyewitness-tradition account of Abeokuta's founding under Sodeke and the full text of the Egba boundary agreements.

Sources

• Samuel Johnson, The History of the Yorubas (1921), 'Foundation of the Present Abeokuta' p.225; Appendix A §4 'Egba (Boundaries)', agreement of 5 Jan 1894, pp.656-657 — Internet Archive full text
• A.B. Ellis, The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples (1894), Introductory pp.2, 12 — Internet Archive full text
• Wikipedia, 'Egba United Government' (Q5347700)