Beba-Bombe Relations: A Study in Socio-Cultural Ties Between Distant Sister Chiefdoms, 1934-2007

Abstract

The world is characterized by human interactions. Since no nation, society community, or person is an island, people get to interrelate either politically, economically, or socially. Africa being a host to thousands of ethnic groups, there is copious evidence of formal relations between the different people in the precolonial, colonial and the postcolonial eras. These relations transcended periods of peace and war with intermediary phases of tensions and negotiations. Thus, societies never existed in seclusion but maintained relations that were either hostile or cordial. In establishing intergroup relations among the Yoruba and Hausa communities in Agege, Gatawa articulates several factors that fashioned the relations between the Hausa and other ethnic communities in Agege submitting that the long established commercial relationship between the Hausa and Yoruba in Agege over the centuries had brought about inter-ethnic marriages evident in the several Hausa prominent personalities in Agegeand Lagos, who are maternally Yoruba. 1