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Office

Alaafin

Emperor of Oyo

  • Also called Aláàfin, Oba of Oyo

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Succession in office

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 1 holder
  • 1 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

No dates recorded 1

  • Dates unrecorded Shango Yoruba orisha of fire, thunder, lightning, virility, dance, drumming, strength and justice; deified third Alaafin of the Oyo Empire, known for his double-headed battle-axe (Oṣé)

Connections

How Alaafin connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Place 1

What this means

Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.

Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

1 statement on this record

  • 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Rédacteur Tibet · Public domain

Keep exploring

More offices, tradition by tradition

The directory lists every one on record, most widely recorded first.

A seat outlasts
whoever sits in it.