About The Author

About the Author

Six Months in Brooklyn, One Promise

Chief Titus Eniola Ayiloge was the Ologbosere of Ijare and the Baale of Olorunsogo-Akunrin, not ceremonial titles. For decades he stood at the center of Ifedore’s fight to govern itself, and it cost him. It also left him with a version of the region’s history that existed nowhere else, only in his memory, shared the way some men talk about weather: constantly, rarely in full.

Banji got the whole account only later, in Brooklyn. His father had come in the early 1990s for medical treatment. A short visit became six months, and Banji became something closer to a stenographer than a son, listening as his father talked: who was arrested, which alliances broke, what it cost certain men to keep standing after they lost.

He did not live to see it published. Banji spent the years after piecing the notes into a manuscript, checking names and dates where he could, sitting with the parts he could not verify long enough to write them honestly. The result, written first for his father, is offered second to anyone whose family history exists only in memory.

Society

A Region That Kept Its Own Record

Ifedore is not one town. It is a cluster of communities, among them Ijare, Ilara-Mokin, and Igbara-Oke, that spent decades pressing for the right to govern themselves rather than be governed from elsewhere. That fight rarely made it into national history in any detail. It was carried instead in the memory of people who lived through it, passed down in conversation rather than print.

The Measure of Our Success grew out of one of those conversations. It is not a comprehensive history of the region, and it does not claim to be. It is one family’s record of what one man saw and did, offered so that at least this part of Ifedore’s story exists somewhere permanent.

Our Books

Works by Banji Ayiloge

One book so far, written to keep a promise made at a father’s bedside. Future titles will carry the same commitment: history preserved, not embellished.

The Struggle for Dignity, Unity, and Self-Rule in Ifedor

The Measure of Our Success

A deeply researched historical account of how the communities of Ijare, Ilara-Mokin, Igbara-Oke, and the wider Ifedore region fought across decades to preserve their dignity, identity, and right to self-governance. Born from bedside conversations between a son and his ailing father in Brooklyn.

Dedication

To my father, Chief Titus Eniola Ayiloge, whose courage, clarity of purpose, and devotion to justice shaped both our family’s story and the political conscience of Ifedore. And to future generations of Ifedore: may this record remind you that dignity must be defended, memory preserved, and history carried forward.

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"The Measure of Our Success is more than a historical narrative; it is an argument for memory, dignity, and public truth. It restores to view the life and struggles of Chief Titus Eniola Ayiloge, whose integrity and steadfastness helped shape the political history of Ifedore and, in important respects, the wider Western Region."

Otunba Dipo F. AkinsikuForeword Author

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Banji Ayiloge