Abiodun (Oyo ruler)

For the Nigerian football (soccer) player, see Oluwasegun Abiodun.
Abiodun
Alaafin of Oyo
Reign1770-1789
PredecessorMajeogbe
SuccessorAwole Arogangan
BornAbiodun Adegorolu
Oyo Empire
DiedOyo Empire

Abiodun (reigned c. 1770–1789) was an 18th-century alaafin, or king, of the Oyo people in what is now Nigeria.[1][2]

  1. ^ David D. Laitin (15 June 1986). Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Change Among the Yoruba. University of Chicago Press, 1986. p. 113. ISBN 9780226467900.
  2. ^ "Abiodun". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 26, 2015.