Abeokuta
| Abeokuta | |||
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 9 ′ N , 3 ° 21 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Nigeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | NG-OG | ||
| height | 66 m | ||
| Residents | 860,298 (2012) | ||
Abeokuta ( Yorubian for "refuge between the rocks") is a city in Nigeria . It is the capital of the state of Ogun . Abeokuta has 860,298 inhabitants and is the seat of one of the five chiefs of the Yoruba people, who are called Alake .
geography
The city is located in southwest Nigeria, north of the city of Lagos .
history
Abeokuta was founded around 1830 by the Egba tribe as a base against attacks by slave hunters from Dahomey . The Egba increasingly moved to the area of Abeokuta after they were ousted from their homeland around the city of Ibadan by Yoruba armies . These themselves fled from their kingdom Oyo before the invasion of the Fulbe warriors from the land of the Hausa further north .
Culture
Abeokuta is home to the private Crescent University . The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Abeokuta . In 1946 the women's organization Abeokuta Women's Union was founded.
A local football club is the Gateway United FC . The city was the venue for the 1998 African Football Championship for women . The first edition of the West African football championship, the WAFU Cup of Nations 2010 , also took place in Abeokuta.
Economy and Infrastructure
The city is the center of a cocoa-growing area and is characterized by a modern mission clinic. Abeokuta has a large brewery and a cement plant among other industrial operations; there are also companies that specialize in dyeing hand-woven fabrics. The city is also a trading center for agricultural products (palm products, cocoa).
sons and daughters of the town
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978), politician, teacher and suffragette
- Christiana Abiodun Emmanuel (1907–1994), church founder and missionary
- Amos Tutuola (1920–1997), writer
- Lateef Oladimeji Adegbite (1933–2012), lawyer and politician
- Bola Ajibola (* 1934), lawyer, judge at the International Court of Justice (1991–1994)
- Wole Soyinka (* 1934), writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
- Moshood Abiola (1937–1998), politician and businessman
- Olusegun Obasanjo (* 1937), President of Nigeria
- Fela Kuti (1938–1997), saxophonist and band leader
- Bekololari Ransome-Kuti (1940–2006), politician, civil rights activist and doctor
- Peter Akinola (born 1944), Anglican bishop; Primate of the Church of Nigeria
- Mudashiru Lawal (1954-1991), football player
- Alfred Adewale Martins (* 1959), Roman Catholic Bishop Archbishop of Lagos
- Dimeji Bankole (* 1969), politician
- Carsten Haitzler (* 1975), Australian-German software developer and initiator of the Enlightenment project
- Olaseni Lawal (* 1986), American-Nigerian basketball player
- Ayomide Folorunso (* 1996), Italian athlete of Nigerian origin
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
