Kiriji: The Sound of the World EndingYorubaland · 1877–1893“Kiriji — say it aloud. It is the sound the new cannons made. The war was named for its own thunder.”After old Oyo fell, Ibadan rose — a city of soldiers, a republic of war chiefs, collecting the Yoruba towns under its rule the way a strong hand collects cowries. The eastern towns, the Ekiti and Ijesha, felt that hand as a weight, and in 1878 they bound themselves into one alliance: the Ekitiparapo.The lesson the elders kept: A long war between kin does not choose a victor — it auditions a foreign referee.