Browsing by Author "SULEIMAN ABDULRAHMAN ADEBAYO"

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    Building Peace after Share-Tsalagi Conflicts: Strategies for Sustainable Peace and Prevention of Future Conflicts between the Two Ethnic Groups
    (Department of History and International Relations, Veritas University (The Catholic University of Nigeria), Abuja-Nigeria., 2025) SULEIMAN ABDULRAHMAN ADEBAYO; Samuel Rachel Nabetan
    Conflicting interests on land resources, power sharing, and clamouring for equal political representation resulted in violence between the Share and Tsaragi communities in 1978. The violence was mitigated before the end of 1978. The citizens of Kwara State hoped that the crisis had been quelled forever. In the years 2000, 2008, 2015, and 2019, the crisis reoccurred and escalated into violence, which involved killing and destruction of properties. At the end of each year’s violence, the Kwara State government and the citizens believed that the crisis among the ethnic groups would never recur. Given a holistic assessment of the pattern of relations among the ethnic groups that were involved in the violence after each violence, historians suggested that the crisis could recur. This study examines the aftermath of the violence with strategies to prevent future occurrences among the two ethnic groups of Share and Tsaragi. The work adopted the historical approach of primary and secondary sources of information, and the method used involved oral interviews, archival records, and text context analysis. The research concluded that the study of the aftermath of each violence provided incentives for assessment, management, and control strategies against future recurrences of the violence among the Share and Tsaragi communities in the northern hemisphere of Kwara State in north central Nigeria. Keywords: Ethnic Crisis; Share-Tsaragi Communities; Aftermaths of the Crisis; Management; Control Strategies; Prevention Introduction
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    Politics in the Migration of Nupe People into Ilorin Emirate in the Nineteenth Century
    (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2026) SULEIMAN ABDULRAHMAN ADEBAYO; Jawondo Ibrahim Abdulganiyu; Garuba Tosho
    Migration is an important phenomenon in human life. From inception, Man wanders from one place to another to meet his needs, and since the want of Man is insatiable, the movement continues till eternity. Like others, the Nupe were sensitive to any situation that called for migration. The migration of the Nupe people into areas that are known as southwestern Nigeria today started with the establishment of the confederated Nupe States by Tsoede in the fifteenth century. The evolution of Ilorin as a caravan trade centre around the middle of the eighteenth century attracted several merchants, including Nupe war pieces of machinery, scribes, scholars, traditional doctors, fetches sellers, Berbers, brokers, and many other occupational groups. Thus, many Nupe immigrants had already settled down in Ilorin before the establishment of the Emirate. In accordance, the Nupe immigrants who were on the ground on the verge of the establishment of the Emirate government actively seized the opportunity to participate in struggles that led to the establishment of the Emirate Government. From a global perspective, politics cannot be overlooked as an essential factor that incited those Nupe migrants into Ilorin. In the migration history of Nupe into Ilorin, the factors of politics, which are locally, nationally, and internationally recognised as important factors in human migration, have been downplayed. This paper, therefore, aimed to examine the political motivational factors that brought about Nupe migration into Ilorin, and their active participation in the establishment of an Emirate, which eventually qualified them to be recognised as a stakeholder. The paper adopted the historical research method, which involved the use of archival materials, oral interviews, text content analysis, and internet materials to assess the cause, courses, and consequences of the Nupe migration into Ilorin. The work concluded that politics played a significant role in the migration and settlement of the Nupe people in Ilorin, and such politics were also used as a mechanism to sustain the co-existence of the Emirate. Keywords: Ethnic relations, Migration, Politics, Integration, Sustenance