Oluyole

The choice of title is the whole story. Oluyole could have ruled Ibadan in his own name — he had the army, and Atiba had a town he had built out of a market and a claim — and instead he took Bashorun, which is the Oyo constitution's second office, and thereby placed himself inside a system rather than beside it. That the same office had been used by Gaa to kill four kings two generations earlier is not lost on the Yoruba sources. The arrangement held; there is still an Alaafin, and Ibadan became the largest city in the region under men who called themselves the Alaafin's officers. Oluyole is Abiodun's grandson and Atiba's nephew, which makes the whole nineteenth-century settlement a family arrangement about a ruined empire.

Domains

• military command
• statecraft

Relations

• grandchild of: AbiodunThrough his mother. His parents are named in the sources — Olukuoye and Agbonrin — and neither is in the registry, so the descent is carried as a relation rather than as parentIds.Reference treatment of Oluyole's mother Omoba Agbonrin as a daughter of the Alaafin Abiodun. (secondary)
• subordinate to: Atiba AtobateleNominally. Ibadan had the soldiers and Oyo had the title, and the record of the arrangement is careful to say which was which.Reference treatment of Oluyole's acceptance of the Alaafin as nominal sovereign at Atiba's persuasion. (secondary)

Sources

• Oluyole, a grandson of Alaafin Abiodun through his mother Agbonrin, was Bashorun and military leader of Ibadan in the city's formative years, first Baale of Ibadanland after the death of Aare Oluyedun, and the man Atiba brought to accept the Alaafin as nominal sovereign.: Reference treatments of Oluyole's parentage, his offices at Ibadan and his settlement with Alaafin Atiba. (secondary)