Adubi War
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The Adubi War, (known locally as Ogun Adubi) or Egba Uprising, was a conflict that occurred in June-August 1918 in Colonial Nigeria as a result of taxation introduced by the Colonial government. British soldiers who fought in the war received the Africa General Service medal.The war consisted of thirty thousand egba fighters destroying much of the railway and telegraphs lines south of Abeokuta along with the killing of a European trading agent and a high-ranking Egba chief. The incident was the culmination of the abrogation of Abeokuta's independence in 1918, and the introduction of direct taxation and forced unpaid labor in Abeokuta. There is a Village called Elere-Adubi where a priest and war lord Adubi, wage war with the British soldiers stoping the British soldiers taken the villagers for unpaid labor in Abeokuta
Bibliography
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- Hogan, Edmund M. (2013). Cross and Scalpel: Jean-Marie Coquard Among the Egba of Yorubaland. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books. pp. 299–313. ISBN 978-9780812874.
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