The In-Between · 15 July 2026

The Quiet Migration

Issue No. 03 · July 2026 · withzackshittu.com

The In-Between

Yorùbá — History, Identity & the In-Between

Opening Note

This issue is about movement. The kind that reshaped Yorùbáland under colonial rule without a single treaty being signed — and the kind I've been doing myself, camera in hand. Four pieces below. Read them in full on the site.

— Zack

The Big Idea

The colonial period's biggest story in Yorùbáland may not be conquest — it may be movement. Farmers pushing into the cocoa frontier, laborers following the railway, traders building diasporas town by town. Nobody called it migration. But it redrew the map of who lived where, who prospered, and who belonged — quietly, and permanently.

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