The Osilaja Book

A family history being written from the archive.

The book brings together the strongest family stories, photographs, maps, evidence and voices into a lasting account of an Ijebu family through a changing Nigeria and diaspora.

What the book is gathering

  • Family tree and branch diagrams
  • Portraits and restored family photographs
  • Short biographies and longer life stories
  • Migration maps and timelines
  • Scans of letters, certificates and programmes
  • Memories credited to the relatives who shared them
  • QR links to preserved voice recordings

Built from the same archive

The book grows from the same approved archive. Family memories keep their contributors, researched claims keep their sources, and a human editor decides what belongs in each edition.

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