ANIMASHAUN BASHIR OLALEKAN

History and International Relations

At the History And International Relations department office

Appointment on Visitation important

Topic: Social And Political History Of Lagos From Earliest Times

Description: The main objective is to examine the place of Social and Political Institutions as well as individuals in the evolution and Development of Lagos from earliest time.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (History)	University of Ibadan	2015

ISO-OLO TO ISOLO: THEGROWTH OF A COSMOPOLITAN SETTLEMENT IN LAGOS

A major aspect of the history of Lagos was the gradual and steady migrations of groups notably the Awori who pioneered the establishment of major settlements especially between 1500 and 1900. The advent of the Awori in Lagos has no doubt elicited considerable historical and other studies. A good number of the existing studies however, focused on the origin, socio-political as well as economic developments of the early Awori settlements in Lagos with a spasmodic references to the history of some of the later Awori settlements that were founded between 1700 and 1900. This paper therefore seek to put in proper historical perspective the history of Isolo, one of the later Awori settlements in Lagos, especially its transformation from Iso-Olo a granite depot to Isolo a cosmopolitan settlement. The paper, which adopts the historical descriptive and analytical methods, contend that, the transformation of the Awori settlement from iso-olo to Isolo was a product of the dispersal of some of the Awori migrants in search of adventure and political independence

ANIMASHAUN BASHIR is a Associate Professor / Reader at the Department of History and International Relations

ANIMASHAUN has a Ph.D in History from University of Ibadan