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Ologun

Supposedly an English term. Caps? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:38, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Apparently so. Some unitalicised quotes from Google Books:

• 1984, Ẹgba Chieftaincy Handbook

  An Ologun or Olorogun usually wears an unusually long cap.

• 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.

• 1998, I. A. Akinjogbin, War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793-1893, Heinemann Educational Books →ISBN [Possibly an error, since Ologun also appears unitalicised]

  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 solider-slaves he commanded.

• 2009, O. T. A. Omi OLO oshun, Pataki of Orisa and Other Essay's 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.

All the lower-case versions I found were italicized, and often written with diacritics. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

• Fair enough. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:34, 4 March 2015 (UTC)