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'''Dosunmu''' {{Audi|Dosunmu.ogg|}} (c. 1823 – 1885), referred to in British documents as '''Docemo''', reigned as [[Oba of Lagos]] from 1853, when he succeeded his father Oba [[Akitoye]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=akitoye+died+1853 | title=Dictionary of African Biography | volume=6 | first1=Emmanuel Kwaku | last1=Akyeampong | first2=Henry Louis | last2=Gates | publisher=OUP USA | year=2012 | isbn=9780195382075 | page=148 | accessdate=26 November 2016 }}</ref> until his own death in 1885.<ref name="Cole1">{{cite book|last1=Cole|first1=Patrick|title=Modern and Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos|date=17 April 1975|publisher=Cambridge University Press, 1975|isbn=9780521204392|page=[https://archive.org/details/moderntraditiona0000cole/page/170 170]|url=https://archive.org/details/moderntraditiona0000cole/page/170}}</ref> He was forced to run away to Britain under the threat of force in August 1861.
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