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Hosted by Zack Shittu · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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Yorùbá — History, Identity & the In-Between is a narrative history podcast exploring the Yorùbá people of West Africa: their kingdoms, their wars, their philosophers, and the worlds they built before, during, and after colonialism.Hosted by Dr. Zack Shittu — technologist, photographer, and lifelong student of Yorùbá culture — each episode moves between the archive and the present day. From the rise and fall of the Oyo Empire to the invention of tradition under British rule, this podcast asks not just what happened, but what it means to know it now.
Zack Shittu hosts Yorùbá - History, Identity and the In-Between, a history show with 10 episodes published.
Season 2 opens. Same day, January 1st 1914 — three Yorùbá cities lived three completely different realities. A proverb about distance asks whether any of them were really safe. Full episode description: A tree doesn't sn
In 1906, a British officer told the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ that his authority was intact — he merely needed to "advise." The Aláàfin's answer became the line that defines this entire episode: the crown was hollow, the throne w
An Ifa oracle told his parents he would serve none of the 400 Yoruba deities. It was right — he served something harder to name. Samuel Ajayi Crowther was enslaved at twelve, freed at sea by the Royal Navy, and rebuilt h
This is the pivot episode of Season 1. Everything YHIB has built — the collapse of Oyo, the rise of Ibadan, the construction of Yoruba identity, the mechanics of trade and civil war — comes to bear on this moment. In thi
The Ogboni weren't just a secret society. They were a constitutional check on the king — and they could remove him.In this bonus episode of Yoruba History, Identity & the In-Between, we explore the Ogboni (also known as
In 19th-century Yorubaland, rival kingdoms fought for sixteen years — and traded with each other the entire time. This is the story of how the Kiriji (Ekitiparapo) War reveals a system of rivalry that was brutal, sophist
After the Oyo Empire collapsed, Yoruba kingdoms fought each other for sixty years. There was no center. No empire. No state holding things together. And yet — the culture held. How? Episode 4 of Yorùbá — History, Identit
The word “Yoruba” is everywhere today — in language, diaspora culture, and political identity across three continents — yet in the early 19th century it barely existed as a shared label. Most people understood themselves
Yorùbá — History, Identity & the In-BetweenEpisode 2Season 1The Rise of Ibadan Out of the ruins of Oyo’s collapse came one of the most extraordinary political experiments in 19th-century West Africa. Ibadan began as a te
Yorùbá — History, Identity & the In-BetweenEpisode 1Season 1The Fall of Oyo The Oyo Empire was one of West Africa’s most powerful political formations — a cavalry state that dominated the region for over a century, comma
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