Browsing by Author "Rasheed Onagun"

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    A History of Traditional Herbal and Medical Association in the Ilorin Emirate, 1975 to 2010
    (Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Taisolarin University, 2022) Rasheed Onagun
    Traditional medical and herbal practitioners have since time immemorial used their crafts to ensure the survival and sustainability of several African communities. Their knowledge, wisdom, technical know-how, herbal formulae and spiritual prowess had in one time or the other safeguarded their communities from calamities, epidemics, danger, wars and crises that might have wiped-out their communities from the surface of the earth. Through their collaborations and association, the herbal practitioners secured a better bargain and protected the interests of their members in the colonial and post-colonial period. Association of the traditional medical practitioner used their strength to secure unity, protection, security and an enabling environment for their operation. In the twenty first century, the Nigerian Association of Medical Herbalist collaborated with government and its agencies, and other professional associations such as the Nigeria Medical Association, West African Society for Pharmacology (WASP) and the academia to conform to standard and contemporary realities.
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    Diplomacy as a Veritable Tool of Sustainability in Multiracial Ilorin Emirate Polity of the Nineteenth Century
    (Department of History and International Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, 2023) Rasheed Onagun
    The overthrow of power and establishment of the northern emirate in Ilorin was accompanied by a lot of challenges and threats from the allies of the annihilated political entity. Several wars and uprisings were waged by the Yoruba folk and their allies in a bid to winning back their lost territory. The new Fulani emirate political order responded through aggression and display of diplomacy in consolidating and sustaining its hegemonic rule in Ilorin and her dependencies. This paper exhibits the internal and external diplomatic methods employed by the Fulani political elites in protecting and sustaining her dynastic rule in the 19th century. The paper explores extant literatures and oral evidences to unravel the extent through which diplomatic tools such as tolerance, politics of involvements and consultation had ensured victory, peaceful coexistence and prosperity in the heterogeneous Ilorin emirate of the 19th century.
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    Ethnic Groups' Relations In The Emergence Of The Fulani Dynasty In Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Labar: Journal of Military History and Peace Studies, 2025-02-07) AbdulRahman Adebayo Suleiman; Rasheed Onagun; Lukman Adeshina
    The foundation of co-existence in Ilorin Emirate is premised on nascent settlements of the Baruba hermit, Ojo-Isekuse, Laderin, Solagberu, Abdullahi, Bako, AbdulMumeen, Dose and Olufadi (al-Fahd) in different quarters of Ilorin between seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each of the aforementioned personalities played socio-cultural roles that fostered relations. Some writers and traditional narrators, especially non-professional historians hardly see pre-Alimi Ilorin history as the foundation and inseparable part of Ilorin history, some writers emphasized a single ethnic group as the basis for the establishment of the Emirate. This work found the essentiality of pre-Alimi Ilorin history, ethnic collaborations and individuals‘ contributions to the establishment of the Ilorin Emirate in 1823. The Ilorin Emirate comprises five L.G.As of Kwara State, namely, Asa L.G.A, Ilorin East L.G.A, Ilorin South L.G.A, Ilorin West L.G.A and Moro L.G.A. This paper examines the contribution of all the ethnic groups‘ subjects and the earliest ward leaders of Ilorin to the survival of each settlement and the emergence of the Ilorin Emirate. Sources of data collection for this study involved primary and secondary. The methodology adopted in his work is historical hence, it relied on primary (oral interviews, praise songs and folklore) and secondary sources. The paper concludes that the administrative acumen of the early Ilorin settlers provided an avenue for the evolution and the heterogeneity of Ilorin as a community.
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    Ethnic Multiplicity, Diverse Facial Tribal Marking and Sustainability of Ilorin Fulani Emirate in the 19th Century
    (Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies, 2025-12-15) Rasheed Onagun; Abdul-Rahman Adebayo Suleiman
    The 19th century Yoruba historical quagmire transformed Ilorin from scattered micro settlements to a Fulani Emirate, a centralized polity and a cultural melting point. Establishment and consolidation of the Fulani Emirate hegemonic rule in a Yoruba geographical domain, culminated to the solid foundation of Ilorin’s political and economic prominence. Ilorin became a conqueror and a safer haven for the oppressed. It turned out to be a scent of attraction for migrant settlers from Yorubaland, Nupe land, Hausa-Fulani, Borno, Sudan, Mali, several other parts of Western Africa and Sudan. Facial markings and other diverse cultural features of these people excessively complicated her heterogeneity and turned the tribal ownership of Ilorin Emirate into an unending controversial academic debate. The paper explores readings from extant literature and oral testimonies to juxtapose the extent through which facial tribal markings demonstrated tribal and cultural diversity of a united sovereign entity of the Ilorin Emirate. The study claims that despite the prevalence of diverse facial tribal markings, political and administrative structuring and restructuring which allocated rightful places to major and signi#cant minor ethnic groupings, vested in them a sense of belonging and identity. Ilorin Emirate became one of the most formidable political and economic heavy weights of the 19th century West African history.
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    Proliferation and Commercialization of Birth Delivery as Catalyst to Hidden Maternal Mortality in Ilorin Emirate, Nigeria, 1999 to 2020
    (Department of History and International Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Bbangida University, Lapai, 2023) Rasheed Onagun
    Since the 1960s, burden recorded from the persisting cases of maternal and neonatal health problems in Ilorin Emirate, Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. These problems were borne out of the disparity in the access to standard orthodox healthcare, most especially at the grass root level. The military regimes responded by launching and intensifying efforts and strategies towards combating the scourge, and safeguarding the good health of all. In 1986, they ensured the execution of the 1978 Alma Ata declaration by establishing and funding Basic Health Centres in all political wards of Nigeria. As from the year 2000 however, the subsequent democratically elected governments castrated and frustrated the effective implementation of the “health for all”, thereby triggering the proliferation and commercialization of maternal health care in Ilorin Emirate. The study adopts historical method of data analysis using primary and secondary sources to juxtapose the intensifying magnitude of hidden maternal mortality as the repercussion of excessive proliferation and commercialization of maternal health care in Ilorin Emirate. Oral interviews were conducted with traditional birth attendants, Community Health Extension Workers (CHEW), church birth attendants, medicine store birth attendants, retired nurses, medical doctors, pregnant mothers, and other hospital supporting staff using purposive sampling. Information sourced proclaimed the extent through which excessive commercialization of birth delivery, accompanied by other vices such as the quest for an alternative means of livelihood, religion fanaticism, impunity and misplacement of priorities have compounded the already worsened unreported and hidden maternal and infant mortality context in twenty first century Ilorin health history.