Rapidity of improvement of cowpea cultivars often depends on the level of success achieved in the introgression of desirable gene(s) into varieties that are susceptible to biotic and abiotic stresses. This research work aimed at generating hybrids that possess resistant gene(s) to brown blotch disease as well as maintaining its brown seed coat, early maturing and high yield potentials. A mapping population was developed using single seed descent method of breeding between susceptible (Ife brown) and resistant (IT-95K-193-12) cowpea varieties to brown blotch disease. Hybrid seeds generated were inoculated with Colletotrichum truncatum and evaluated. A total of 356 crosses were made in direct (Ife brown × IT-95K-193-12) and reciprocal (IT-95K-193-12 × Ife brown) crosses. Only 8.43% percentage successful crosses were obtained. Seed coat colour was controlled by at least two genes and brown blotch was governed by maternal effect. Some of the hybrids generated possessed resistant gene(s) to brown blotch disease especially when IT-95K-193-12 was used as female parent and most of the hybrids were high yielding and early maturing especially among hybrids that originated when Ife brown was used as female parent.