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.
Help build the story