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Johnson calls the victory at Osogbo a turning point of Yoruba history: it 'saved the Yoruba country as such from total absorption by the Fulanis' and broke Ilọrin's southward advance.
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“This victory at Osogbo was a most important one and forms a turning point in Yoruba history. It saved the Yoruba country as such from total absorption by the Fulanis as a tributary state. From this time forth the power of the Ilorins for an independent aggressive warfare in Yoruba land was for ever broken and the Ibadans gained the ascendancy. The Ilorins without losing sight of their ultimate objective to ‘dip the Koran in the sea,” i.e. the subjugation of the entire Yoruba …”
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