From the Hilltops to the Valley

Introduces Takete-Idera, its location within Amuro, the wider Yagba and Okun setting, indigenous religion, masquerade traditions, music, games and everyday community life.

Traces the movement from Amuro-Odo through Igbo Ide, Ilu-Oke, Okeata and surrounding uplands to the present settlement around 1926, including Agbagba Ide and the naming of Takete-Idera.

Records the indigenous religious worldview of Takete-Ide, the Agado and Oliwo groupings, Egungun traditions, women’s religious traditions, music and associated cultural practices.

Provides regional background to the Sudan Interior Mission and the missionary movement that eventually reached Yagbaland and Takete-Ide.

Records the arrival of SIM Christianity around 1919, early converts, baptisms, the first SIM church building, choir and church bell. Baptist Church-specific passages are not used for this website update.

Records the later movement to Takete-Tedo at Okegada from 1949 onward and the communal labour through which the new settlement grew.

Covers literacy, primary and secondary education, early healthcare, the first dispenser, nurses and midwives, and later clinic development.

Records the growth of non-Baptist Christian congregations, the development of multiple places of worship and the formation of the Takete-Ide ECWA LCC.

Describes the functions and hierarchy of the Traditional Council, ward rotation of the Olu’de stool and categories and procedures of chieftaincy.

Lists people and institutions recorded as firsts in education, professions, public service, transport, housing, health and community life.

Records public infrastructure and development interventions in roads, irrigation, education, postal services, healthcare, ICT, water and agriculture.

Documents Christmas and New Year customs, Easter, New Yam, Egungun/Epa, Ogun, Imole and Takete-Ide Day.

Highlights TIPU, Jet Club, Owe, TISU and Egbe Ode as associations that sustain civic life, youth development, communal farming, education and community security.