-
Akitoye (died
September 2, 1853),
sometimes wrongly referred to as Akintoye,
reigned twice as Oba of Lagos; first, from 1841 to 1845, and a
second time...
-
Lagos during the
reigns of Obas (monarchs) Adele, Dosunmu, Oluwole, and
Akitoye,
helping the
latter two Obas gain
political power. She
married Oba Adele...
- captain.
Oshodi Tapa
explained Akitoye's escape to
Kosoko by
saying that
Akitoye put his
enemies in a trance.
Akitoye thereafter arrived in
Abeokuta where...
-
Ibikunle Alfred Akitoye (1871–1928) was Oba of
Lagos from 1925 to 1928
during what some
historians refer to as the "Interregnum"
years of the
exiled Oba...
-
replaced him with
Akitoye, who
previously lost his
throne to
Kosoko and
asked the
British to help him
return to power. In return,
Akitoye promised to end...
- the slave-trade-friendly Oba Kosoko,
helping to
install the
amenable Oba
Akitoye and
signing the
Treaty between Great Britain and
Lagos on 1 January 1852...
- Docemo,
reigned as Oba of
Lagos from 1853, when he
succeeded his
father Oba
Akitoye,
until his own
death in 1885. He was
forced to run away to
Britain under...
- Oba
Oluwole died in an
explosion at the Oba's
palace in 1841,
Akitoye became Oba.
Akitoye naively tried to
appease an
embittered Kosoko by
inviting him...
- John Beecroft,
British Consul in the
Bights of
Benin and Biafra) and Oba
Akitoye, the
newly installed Oba of Lagos. The
treaty was
signed following British...
- and
deposed and
exiled the king, and
installed Akitoye's brother Kosoko as Oba.
Exiled to Europe,
Akitoye met with
British authorities, who had
banned slave...
