the peak of Idanre Hills Idanre Hills are a potential touristic jewel, and a Unesco listed site. Located 25 kilometres south-west of Akure in Ondo State, it is an unusual rock formation rising a few hundred meters above the forested flatlands. The area covered by the hills is probably 20km by 20km. Initially, inhabitants settled on the hilltop plateau. There are still traces of the settlement: a school built in mud bricks at the end of the 19th century, a few huts with rusted corrugated iron roofs and the Owa's palace. Nowadays, people have migrated to the foothill to create the city that has swallowed up all the flat space available between the rocks. The migration happened in two steps. In 1928 newly converted Christians left the hilltop settlement to avoid harassment from and confrontation with the Traditionalists and settled in Idanre Alade, a village on the outskirt of the hills. The second part of the settlement moved to the foothill in 1933. It is the first time I see ...
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