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The Experiment in Communal Living at Aiyetoro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

E. M. McClelland
E. M. McClelland
Affiliation:
University of Ife, Ibadan Branch, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Extract

The Company of the Apostles at Aiyetoro is a settlement unique in Nigeria. It is a prosperous community with a high standard of living and excellent amenities. Its reserves of capital, or rather cash, are obviously very large indeed. The people look healthy and content. Their way of life is wholly communal and they claim that it is based on the precepts of the early Christian Apostles. The varying views expressed about it by visitors have contributed to the great interest which it undoubtedly rouses.

Type
Religious Movements
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , October 1966 , pp. 14 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1966

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References

1 G. J. A. Ojo, “Trends towards Mechanized Agriculture in Yorubaland”, Nigerian Geographical Journal, Vol. VI, No. 2.

2 These precepts have been collected together from The Happy City by S. Authority.