Everything Changed Overnight: How the 1914 Amalgamation Actually Played Out | YHIB S2E1

Season 2 opens. Same day, January 1st 1914 — three Yorùbá cities lived three completely different realities. A proverb about distance asks whether any of them were really safe.Full episode description:A tree doesn't snap in the forest and kill someone at home — so the Yorùbá say. On January 1st, 1914, in a government building in Lagos, the British grafted two colonies into one and called it Nigeria. That's a tree falling in a very distant forest. This episode asks whether the proverb held.This is the Season 2 premiere of Yorùbá — History, Identity & The In-Between. We follow the same January morning through three Yorùbá cities — a Lagos clerk who got a new letterhead and nothing else, an Ìbàdàn that barely noticed, and an Ọ̀yọ́ that performed welcome while quietly planning to wait the British out — before tracing what amalgamation actually flattened administratively, and the one thing that reached every single household regardless: the Native Revenue Ordinance of 1917, and the tax that turned customary tribute into a fixed colonial demand.Along the way: a 1918 tax revolt in Ẹkìtì, the 1930s cocoa-price collapse, and the slow, quiet way "Nigerian" began layering on top of Yorùbá identity without ever replacing it.Season 1 is complete. Season 2 starts here.Hosted by Dr. Zack Shittu. Bonus episodes, full source notes, and extended cuts are available at patreon.com/ZackShittu. Follow @ZackShittu and visit withzackshittu.com for the full archive.Topics: Yoruba history, 1914 amalgamation, Nigerian colonial history, Native Revenue Ordinance, Ibadan, Oyo empire, Ekiti, colonial taxation, African history