Step into the lives, objects and ideasthat made the city I call home.
Can a city have more than one beginning?
Traditions associate earlier Ibadan settlements with Lagelu, migration from Ile-Ife, destruction and resettlement. Their chronologies differ. These inherited accounts are part of the city’s history, rather than a single certain date for the founding of the modern settlement.
A heritage object used here as a metaphor for oral memory; not an excavated or dated artefact.
Portrait base geometry is adapted from CC0 MakeHuman graphical data. Clothing, objects and architectural models are original work. No historical person was scanned.
Creative reconstruction. Original sculptural interpretation. Portraits and clothing are not authenticated likenesses or costume evidence; objects are illustrative and architecture is not a measured survey.
Local historical synthesis; consulted indexed excerpt. Useful for distinguishing settlement traditions and identifying chronological disagreement, not for treating its exact early dates as settled.
Secondary historical overview; search excerpts consulted, direct page returned an access error.
Based on the historical research supplied by the owner on 24 October 2026. Source consultation and access limits are preserved in the register. The brief is the research foundation; this build does not claim independent archive visits or full-text retrieval of every source. Spatial scenes and anonymous figures are creative reconstructions, not authenticated buildings, historical portraits or eyewitness accounts. Conventional dates and oral traditions are labelled separately. No invented historical quotations are used.