Who helped make the Oyo Empire?
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Who helped make the Oyo Empire?
Oyo Empire:
The Oyo Empire was an empire located in West Africa, in the modern nation of Nigeria. Although the Oyo people (who are of Yoruba ethnicity) had come to the area sometime during the ninth and tenth century, they did not create an empire until much later.
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View this answerThe person most responsible for turning Oyo from a small state to a significant empire was a leader named Orompoto. Under Orompoto's leadership (the...
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