Ologun

plural Ologuns

1. A member of the social class of warrior chiefs in Yoruba society.

   FIGURE 6.5. The Qrangun-Ila wearing the Ologun crown and greeting Ila's chiefs during Iwa Ogun.

   1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 117

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   The real rulers of the town and its dependencies were the war chiefs, the Ologun, overshadowing the Ogboni

   1988, Robert Sydney Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 128

   Early in the morning of the third day, known as Osetita, Aworo Ose was led by Chief Oloyin, an Ologun warrior chief, to shrines along the roads leading into Ila.

   1996, John Pemberton, Funso S. Afọlayan, Yoruba sacred kingship: "a power like that of the gods", Smithsonian Inst Pr

   Throughout the next four days the Ologun chiefs feasted one another in accordance with their rank.

   1997, Sandra T. Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 112

2. countableA Yoruba warrior chief.

   An Ologun or Olorogun usually wears an unusually long cap.

   1984, Ẹgba Chieftaincy Handbook

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   Why the Ologuns decided to observe this tradition had beaten his imagination. The distance between Ibadan and Abeokuta ought to constitute enough check on them.

   1982, Jide Oguntoye, Too cold for comfort

   The strength of a state depended on the number and strength of its Ologun war chiefs, while the strength of an Ologun depended on the number of the soldier-slaves he commanded.

   1998, I. A. Akinjogbin, War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793-1893, Heinemann Educational Books, →ISBN

   52 The newspaper reported that at the meeting in Abeokuta, a local chief, the Asipa of Egba and the official spokesman of the Ologuns (traditional war chiefs) summed up popular objection to colonial land reform proposals.

   2008, Bonny Ibhawoh, Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 102

   As fate would have it, an Ologun who had been on patrol in the area saw the commotion and rescued the Old man with the cane.

   2009, O. T. A. Omi OLO oshun, Pataki of Orisa and Other Essay's ^([sic]) for Lucumi Santeria, Lulu.com, →ISBN