The In-Between · 27 June 2026

New Episode: When Europeans Arrived — YHIB S1E6 is live

Yorùbá — History, Identity & the In-Between

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New Episode Season 1 · Episode 6

Season One · 2026

When Europeans Arrived

The simplest question, the most impossible answer.

This is the pivot episode of the season.

For five episodes, we've been building a picture of nineteenth-century Yorùbáland on its own terms — the collapse of Oyo, the rise of Ibadan, the construction of Yorùbá identity. Episode 6 introduces the force that redirects all of it: European arrival.

But not the version you've heard before. Not a story of passive victims. Not a civilizing mission. Something harder and more honest — a story about how an external power enters a sophisticated, contested system and bends it toward its own purposes. And about how Yorùbá people — merchants, kings, missionaries, soldiers — navigated that moment with intelligence, compromise, and calculated agency.

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