01/08/2025
🧠 Did Araromi-Oke Really Disappear in 1957? Let’s Break It Down.
Many of you have asked about the story making rounds online that a Yoruba village named Araromi-Oke mysteriously vanished in 1957, leaving behind boiling pots, untouched palm wine, and one stubborn goat. It sounds gripping, almost cinematic. But here's the truth: there is no credible historical evidence that this ever happened.
We dug deep because that is what we do at Edu History TV:
✅ Checked Nigerian newspaper archives from the 1950s (including Daily Times and other colonial-era press).
✅ Searched British colonial records from that period.
✅ Looked through academic journals, oral history archives, and Yoruba historical collections.
✅ Reviewed records for any government, police, or military response in that time.
Result? Nothing. No official report. No newspaper article. No documented mass migration. No folklore trace in respected Yoruba oral tradition anthologies.
This story only started surfacing recently on social media, with the same wording, often copy-pasted, and no source ever cited. The supposed event in 1957 is too recent to have zero documentation if it truly happened especially for something so dramatic.
📌 Yet today, people are spinning it as fact. One post becomes another, and over time, it begins to sound like established history. But we must be careful: repeating a tale does not make it true.
📣 So we are putting out a call:
If you have real evidence be it photos, old newspapers, audio accounts from elders, or verifiable sources. Please bring it forward.
Until then, we can safely call the Araromi-Oke disappearance what it is: a viral myth, not a historical event.
History must be protected from fiction unless that fiction clearly says what it is.
