Ologun
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Ologun (plural Ologuns or Ologun)
- 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.
- (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.