Table of Contents 

5.1 

• 5.1 Background Information on O’Hear/Bolaji interviews 1988-1991, Series I, II, and II

5.2 Text of O’Hear/Bolaji interviews and information 1988-1999 Series I:

• 5.2a Interview with Alhaji Mustapha Magaji Adeyi

• 5.2b Interview with Alhaji Yusuf Olore

• 5.2c Interview with Anonymous Informant 1

• 5.2d Interview with Anonymous Informant 2

• 5.2e Interview with Anonymous Informant 3

• 5.2f Vocabulary definitions; Proverbs with translations

• 5.2g Excerpt from letter from Dr. E.B. Bolaji, 15 March 1989. Sent from Ilorin

5.3 Text of O’Hear/Bolaji interviews and information 1989-1990, Series II

• 5.3a Notes on questions for Series II, sent to Dr. E.B. Bolaji in July 1989

• 5.3b Follow-up interviews from Series I (plantations). For details of the informants, see 5.2 a-e.

• 5.3c Interview on Agbeyangi

• 5.3d(i) Re slave status: Definition of ajia

• 5.3d(ii) Interviews on Ajia Ijesha

• 5.3d(iii) Interview on Ajia Atikekere

• 5.3d(iv) interview on Ajia Ogbonde (Bonde)

• 5.3d(v) Ajia Opele, Ajia Gaju, and Ajia Ogidiolu

• 5.3d(vii) Interview and information on the Idiape Crisis of 1936 Ajia connection? Elite slaves’ involvement as baba kekere?

• 5.3e(i) Interview on Sarkin Dogari (Dongari)

• 5.3e(ii) Interview on Balogun Afin

• 5.3e(iii) Interview on Sarkin Baraje (Baraye), Barade

• 5.3e (iv) Interview on Are Ogele

• 5.3e(v) Interview on Magaji Gari and Galadima Gari

• 5.3f Excerpt from letter from Dr. E.B. Bolaji, 20 April 1990. Sent from Ilorin. Transcribed by Ann O’Hear from Dr. Bolaji’s handwritten letter in April 2020

5.4 Text of O’Hear/Bolaji interviews and information 1991 Series III

• 5.4a Follow-up questions on concubines (from Series I) and Ajia Ijesha (from Series II)

• 5.4b(i) Note on Numbering and Subheadings, 5.4b(ii) to 5.4b(v)

• 5.4b(ii) Extended interview on pawnage, Ile Alagbede, Okelele, Ilorin

• 5.4b(iii) Extended interview on pawnage, Ile Asileke, Okelele, Ilorin

• 5.4b(iv) Extended interview on pawnage, Ile Alawo (Alawọ), Okelele, Ilorin

• 5.4b(v) Extended interview on pawnage, Ile Alawo, ti Ile Onilu, Okelele, Ilorin

• 5.4b(vi) Two shorter interviews on pawnage, one with Dr. E.B. Bolaji’s mother, the other with his father. See 5.4b(vii), Excerpt from letter, for reference to the interviewees. Interviews conducted by Dr. Bolaji. No date

• 5.4b(viii) Follow-up questions (sent to Dr. Bolaji November 1991) and responses (including pawnage); questions provided by Ann O’Hear; questions and responses transcribed by Ann O’Hear in 2020, with an added introduction. No precise dates for the follow-up interviews were provided, but they were probably conducted soon after November 1991