A Time of Troubles

A TIME OF TROUBLES descends on Yorubaland. Set in motion by the collapse

of the old Oyo Empire, a hundred years of discord unfolds. It is a time

of mayhem, social upheaval and slave raids as the Yoruba city-states are torn

apart by fratricidal war. Warlords such as Oluyole, Ogunmola, Kurunmi and

Ogedengbe, with their ‘war-boys,’ achieve power and infamy in their various

theaters of war from Owu and Ijaiye to Kiriji. Caught up in the chaos are the

author’s forebears, the Warrior from Ife, his son Solesi, the war-boy who came

back home from capture and exile, and Baba Mamu who, tiring of war, takes

solace in his cocoa farm. The story culminates in the bloody defeat of the Ijebus

at Imagbon and the imposition of British rule over Yorubaland.