Majeogbe

Majeogbe is the one who fought back, and the record of it is precise about the arms used: Gaa's power was understood as juju as much as constitutional, so Majeogbe met him on that ground and won the exchange. It cost him the reign — Gaa's sons held the city whatever state their father was in — but the poison is the reason there was anything left for Abiodun to overthrow two years later. Nigerian popular history gives the credit for Gaa's fall entirely to Abiodun; the sources consulted here are clear that the man Abiodun's allies dragged to the Akesan market had already been paralysed by this king.

Domains

• sovereignty

Relations

• enemy: Bashorun GaaThe fourth of the four, and the only one who marked him: the poison that paralysed Gaa is Majeogbe's, and Abiodun killed a man who was already crippled.Reference treatment of Majeogbe's fortification against Gaha and of his poisoning of him. (secondary)

Sources

• Majeogbe is the Alaafin of Oyo of c. 1770-1772, the last of the four Alaafins Bashorun Gaa destroyed, who fortified himself with charms against Gaa and poisoned him, leaving him weak and paralysed, before dying himself unable to overcome Gaa's sons.: Reference treatments of Majeogbe's reign, his charms, his poisoning of Gaha and his death. (secondary)