Ologun

English

Etymology

From Yoruba ológun.

Noun

Ologun (plural Ologuns or Ologun)

1. A member of the social class of warrior chiefs in Yoruba society.
   • 1988, Robert Sydney Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 128:

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

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

     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.

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

     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 117:

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

2. (countable) A Yoruba warrior chief.
   • 1982, Jide Oguntoye, Too cold for comfort:

     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.

   • 1984, Ẹgba Chieftaincy Handbook:

     An Ologun or Olorogun usually wears an unusually long cap.

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

Anagrams

• Luongo, oulong