Yoruba architecture
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Yoruba architecture describes the architectural styles of the Yoruba people of West Africa, dating back to approximately the 8th century. and lasted up to and beyond the colonial period beginning in t
2nd Palace in Osun Osogbo
Natural History Museum Obafemi Awolowo University,Ife
The Old Palace Of The Deji Of Akure 5
Palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, as photographed by Frobenius
Sungbo's Eredo
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Sungbo's Eredo is a system of defensive walls and ditches that is located to the southwest of the Yoruba town of Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria. It was built in honour of the Ijebu noblewo
Yoruba architecture
…thatched leaves and wood, or later aluminum and corrugated iron. Most medieval/pre-colonial Yoruba settlements were surrounded by defensive mud walls. Sungbo's Eredo, a series of such fortifications equipped with guard houses and moats, has been considered the largest pre-colonial monument in Africa, larger even…
Multidisciplinary technologist Ade Olufeko inside Sungbo's Eredo in 2017