Time of Troubles

A TIME OF TROUBLES descends on Yorubaland. Set in motion by the collapseof the old Oyo Empire, a hundred years of discord unfolds. It is a timeof mayhem, social upheaval and slave raids as the Yoruba city-states are tornapart by fratricidal war. Warlords such as Oluyole, Ogunmola, Kurunmi andOgedengbe, with their war-boys, achieve power and infamy in their varioustheaters of war from Owu and Ijaiye to Kiriji. Caught up in the chaos are theauthor s forebears, the Warrior from Ife, his son Solesi, the war-boy who cameback home from capture and exile, and Baba Mamu who, tiring of war, takessolace in his cocoa farm. The story culminates in the bloody defeat of the Ijebusat Imagbon and the imposition of British rule over Yorubaland.