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Oshogbo

City and trading centre in west Nigeria, 200 km/125 mi northeast of Lagos, on the Oshun River; population (2007 est) 548,300. It is the capital of Osun State. It developed as a trading centre after the arrival of the railway in 1906. It processes cocoa, tobacco, and palm oil. The main industries are cotton weaving and sheet metal production.

The town was originally settled by the Ijesha, a group of Yoruba people, but was greatly enlarged by an influx of Oyo refugees from the Fulani jihad (Muslim holy war) in the early 19th century. Oshogbo allied with Ibadan after its victory over the Fulani and paid tribute to it until 1951. The Yoruba inhabitants are still ruled by an Oba (king). The city is the base for the Oshogbo School of Nigerian artists.
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Location and Environmental Settings The Osogbo area where the present study is confined is located within latitude 7[degrees]6'N & 7[degrees]15'N and longitude 3[degrees]17'E & 3[degrees]25'E and covers about 268[km.
Hydrogeochemical assessment of metals contamination in an urban ... by Tijani, Moshood N.; Onodera, Shinichi / Journal of Water Resource and Protection (JWARP)
This is because, if the character and forms of the productions of workshop centers such as Osogbo (1963-1966), Frank McEwen's stone carvers in Zimbabwe (1958-1973), or the artists of Ruth Schaffner's Gallery Watatu in Nairobi (1990s) were usually naive, with the artists having little if any Western education (Kasfir 1999), the Abayomi Barber School artists, equally poorly educated, produce super-realistic works described as no different from those of the formally trained (Adepegba 1996).
Creative reformation of African art traditions: the iconography of ... by Odiboh, Freeborn O. / African Arts
Wenger, along with other artists, created the shrines in the Sacred Groves -- a wood in the town of Osogbo, in which the internationally renowned school of art of the same name originated.
Austrian artist Susanne Wenger dies in Nigeria at 93 by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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