Records Don't Lie, It's Only The Attempt To Falsify Records That Brings About Arguments. People always talk about the Kiriji War — but they forget what led to Yoruba disunity in the first place. In the book Seventeen Years in Yoruba Country, the writer didn’t just talk about Yoruba towns and kings — he observed how division became our greatest weakness. One thing he noticed clearly was how the Fulani always found ways to feed that disunity. After the fall of the Oyo Empire, the Yoruba nation stood at a crossroads. Every town wanted to prove its own strength — Ibadan, Ijaye, Egba, Ijesa, Ekiti — all strong, all proud, but no longer united. And that was the perfect opportunity for the Fulani to step in. The Fulani strategy was simple but effective: they used friendship and flattery to enter Yoruba politics, they supported one side in conflicts and then abandoned them when the time was right. They knew that as long as the Yoruba kept fighting each other, we would never rebuild t...