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    Drawing a Line in the Sand: British Response to the Emergence and Activities of Indigenous Prophets in Colonial Yorubaland, 1918-1951
    (Published by the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, 2019) Thompson, O.O, Jawondo, I.A, Afolabi, A. S
    This study examines the emergence, activities and some manifestations of indigenous prophets among the Yoruba of south-west Nigeria and how the British colonial administration responded to them. The Yoruba of south-west Nigeria believed in prophets because too many of them, prophets possess the power to heal, deliver people from evil forces. The study relies upon archival sources, extant literature, and oral testimonies on the subject. The study states that there were some differences as a result of religious beliefs that existed between the British colonial administration and the emerging indigenous prophets which made the former to attempt to control the latter. In the ned, what was regarded as the excesses of the indigenous prophets which colonial administration tried to check did not result in the complete subjugation of the former.