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"The Owa." The king is seen at his place of private audience. Wesleyan missionaries had hopes that the Owa would convert to Christianity. From a set of lantern slides entitled "Ilesha." From a set of lantern slides entitled "Ilesha" introducing and describing Wesleyan Methodist work at the hospital and medical mission at Ilesha, a Yoruba town, the former capital of a kingdom ruled over by an Owa. Medical work began in 1916 with the opening of a dispensary. The construction of a hospital followed in the 1920s.
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