The In-Between · 8 August 2026

Season 2: Ep.1: Everything Changed Overnight

Yorùbá — History, Identity & the In-Between

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Season Two · 2026

Everything Changed Overnight:

How the 1914 Amalgamation Actually Played Out

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. The question this episode asks: did the proverb hold — or did the tree, this once, reach all the way home?

In this episode

- The same January morning in three Yorùbá cities — Lagos, Ìbàdàn, and Ọ̀yọ́ — and three completely different responses to the news

- The Native Revenue Ordinance of 1917: how a customary, weather-flexible tribute became a fixed universal tax, and why that mattered more than the amalgamation itself

- A 1918 tax revolt in Ẹkìtì, and what happened when the 1930s cocoa-price collapse met tax rates that never came down

- How "Nigerian" started layering on top of Yorùbá identity — without replacing it — inside colonial offices and colonial census forms

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