Wasinmi, Nigeria

The name Wasinmi comes from the phrase in the Yoruba language, wáà ṣe isimi, which means come and rest. It was shortened to Wasinmi,[2] and it started as a small settlement of refuge for newly converted Christians. Though the area was occupied by Egba people from Abeokuta already, it served as more of a market place than a permanent place of residence. The missionaries would collect converts from Abeokuta of the Gbagura Egba extraction into the settlements like what is now Wasinmi. The purpose was to cut Christians away from traditional ways of other communities. [3]However, Wasinmi began to grow and became open to many worshippers of the native Yoruba deities in the Yoruba religion, which the converts originally worshipped and Wasinmi became a growing village and served as a colony under the jurisdiction of the Gbagura. This allowed for Christianity and the Yoruba beliefs to grow together and Christian converts often still retained their polytheistic beliefs. [4] Wasinmi is one of the 72 townships under Gbagura. The Egba Gbagura people are one of the 4 subsections of Abeokuta, which includes Oke-Ona Egba, Egba Ake, and Owu.

The Gbagura people originated from Ile-Ife like many other Yoruba sub-ethnic groups. They then migrated along what is know the Ibadan-Oyo-Offa Road and Ibadan-Owo Road and met the other groups at the Egba Forest outside what is now Abeokuta in 1834.[5]In the early 1900s, the British administration built a train station in the village, which was a major site of the Adubi War in 1918, also known as the Egba Uprising. St. Michael's Anglican Church was the first church built in the village by newly converted natives, most likely in c. 1920.

Odafin Odegbami (c. 1842-1934), ancestor to Amos Tutuola, the Ogunbiyi family, and Odegbami family (including Segun Odegbami and Wole Odegbami) which are very prominent and influential families in Wasinmi, was a spiritual leader and appointed administrator as detailed in Tutuola's book The Palm Wine Drinkard.

One of the oldest Anglican churches in Wasimi

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Each small group of clans in Wasinmi has their own section with its each unique name. Four of these sections are Wasinmi Igbó[2], Wasinmi Oríle, Wasinmi Alaafia, and Wasinmi Ọlọṣẹ.

The Ogun State government has started construction to build an international airport in Wasimi. The construction was due to have finished in March of 2019,[6], but President Buhari has continued to commission the former governor's projects[7]. Many local Wasinmi farmers were angry at the confiscation of land and were given monetary compensations.

• Amos Tutuola
• Segun Odegbami
• Wole Odegbami
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