During the Owu war, the Olowu was carried on his back (to disguise his escape) from Orile Owu (Owu Ipole) to Orile Erunmu, guarded by a combined team of his royal guards and Oba Erunmu's royal guards. After Orile Owu was devastated, the remaining Owu army retreated to defend Orile Erunmu against the allied army of Ijebu and Ife.

Result of The Owu War Ife and Ijebu allies under the leadership of Okunade and attacked the Egbe towns for allowing Owu refugees to settle in their territory. towns, Abeokuta and Ibadan …

2025年1月18日 · So Who are the Owu people? Owu people are warriors and the first settlers outside Ife hence why they call themselves Owu lakoda (The first to be created). They speak the Yoruba dialect of Yoruboid languages, and they first settled not far from the Osun river in the Ijebu area of Ogun State.

2025年1月18日 · The Anlugbua chains (Owu deity) is featured everywhere the Owus are settled. It can be argued that the Owu civilization started before the Oduduwa conquest and before any kingdoms in Yoruba-Land. Meanwhile, after Ijebu won their war against the Owus, the Oyo warriors attacked the homeless Owu refugees at Erunmu.

4 天之前 · The Olowu gave the Owu crown to Ijaola, one of the king’s closest advisors, and a warrior simply known as Akogun, who was Owu’s first recorded Akogun warrior; Akogun is a designation akin to a modern army defense chief.

Owu is an ethnic Yoruba subgroup popularly known as one of the four arms of the Egba by virtue of its historical association with the latter especially since 1834 when they arrived in Abeokuta after a devastating war.

2022年7月5日 · The Owu-Ife war, as its name denotes, was a bloody conflict that broke out between the people of Ile-Ife and natives of the neighbouring town of Owu between 1821 and 1828. Its significance lies in the fact that it was a war that opened the gate of tragedy for other wars in Yoruba land.

2015年8月20日 · This was the first major war in southern Yorubaland in the nineteenth century. Beginning in c. 1820, the Owu War dragged on until c. 1825 when the allied forces succeeded in defeating and destroying Owu.

Owu was a major factor in the 1842-45 war against Ota and Ado Odo. As an Awori Ota King, declared in 1935, the conclusion of the war of Ota/ Ado Odo was led by Gbalefa, the Owu General and his Owu contingents and that is how Owu people not only conquered but occupy the expanse of land now called Gbalefa Peninsular.

The Owu dialect is strong and vibrant and can now be heard mainly in Abeokuta and Owu villages in Ogun State. This irony was created by the dispersal that resulted from the Owu War of 1821 – 1825 in the course of which the major block of the Owu settled in Abeokuta around 1834.