Image Number: APN760146

APN760146

Title: Drum Magazine social history photographs, Nigeria edition 645 Description: The tragi-comic make-believe palace of a ruler in exile. Former Alafin of Oyo: "My dethronement is a lurid example of the reign of terror." The powerful, greying Yoruba Oba, Alhadji Adeniran, was booted out of his Royal Stool at the age of 84, by the Western Regional Government. A Lagos merchant gave him sanctuary at his business headquarters. But the Oba soon turned the building into a "palace." City: Lagos Country: Nigeria Date Created: 02-1959 Creator: Drum Social Histories Credit Notice: Matthew Faji / Drum Social Histories / Bailey's African History Archive / african.pictures Keywords:

• Drum Magazine social history photographs
• Nigeria edition 645
• Africa
• Periodicals
• Traditional
• leaders
• Politics
• Dress
• Traditional
• Portraits
• Alhaji Adeyemi Adeniran
• Alhadji Adeniran
• Yoruba Oba
• palace
• Alafin of Oyo
• tragi-comic
• Matthew Faji
• 1950s
• Drum magazine
• Drum
• Drum Social Histories
• Bailey’s African History Archive
• BAHA