ABSTRACT
The city of Ibadan has two centers. One is the heart of indigenous Ibadan, and lies between the hills on which the first inhabitants settled. It is a vast and open marketplace, servin g th e hundred s o f thousand s o f descendant s o f thos e nineteenth-century settlers , whos e homes no w cover the hillsides and fil l th e gullies and fluvial plains below. The second is nearly two miles to the west, at the Iddo gate where the railroad station was built. Along with warehouses and European stores , ther e grew nearby a new market, called Dugbe, t o serve the new immigrants to the city .
