WHY I SHARE MY CROWN WITH MY WIFE – OBA AKANBI
source: http://www.eyesoflagos.com/2017/06/why-i-share-my-crown-with-my-wife-oba.html


The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has given reasons why he puts the kingship crown of his land on his wife, an action many do not see as part of Yoruba culture.
Oba Akanbi is the only Yoruba Oba known to share the crown with his wife.
And people say it is a desecration of the tradition.
But speaking with Sun, the young monarch claimed he was functioning according to God’s revelations.
He explained, “I’m saying I was sent by God to make things right in what is called kingship and leadership and to show how the past, our history, was.
“My wife and I wanted to honour an event. It’s a great event. And that day when we were about to go, it was revealed to me: ‘Look at your side’ and I looked at my side and saw my wife.
“And it was said: ‘Look at her head; find a crown that you are not wearing and wear on her head the crown.
“That was how I gave her the crown. When God reveals something, I can’t refuse, I just have to do it, the same way Abraham was told to take his son, when he was already over 100 years old.
“Yes and also when I put the crown, God revealed to me that our progenitor normally crowned his own wife.”

Wetin concern me

She is wearing a coronet, a non-sacred crown. The coronet is what is placed on heads of Erelus or Princesses on the throne in the interim of settling on a successor to a deceased Oba. A king may also place the coronet on head of a heir-prince for blessings, as was the case when Oba Akinsemoyin sat his crown on head of little Ologun Kutere and signalled beginning of a new dynasty.

Yoruba traditional crowns (sacred) are of two, or perharps more, but I am conversant with two and the perched birds are common to both.

1 - beaded
2 - non beaded.

Beside these two there are special crowns, worn only for certain rituals, for instance the Aare Crown.

MetaPhysical:
She is wearing a coronet, a non-sacred crown. The coronet is what is placed on heads of Erelus or Princesses on the throne in the interim of settling on a successor to a deceased Oba. A king may also place the coronet on head of a heir-prince for blessings, as was the case when Oba Akinsemoyin sat his crown on head of little Ologun Kutere and signalled beginning of a new dynasty.

Yoruba traditional crowns (sacred) are of two, or perharps more, but I am conversant with two and the perched birds are common to both.

1 - beaded
2 - non beaded.

Beside these two there are special crowns, worn only for certain rituals, for instance the Aare Crown.

Do you really think, this Oluiwo is justifying this great exalted position, he occupies with all these controversies around him? So, disheartening seeing all the negative impression, he is adorning Yoruba heritage with his “funkify " style, that are not part of Yoruba's king's characteristics. Reading some piece about him at times make me feel moody.

MetaPhysical:
She is wearing a coronet, a non-sacred crown. The coronet is what is placed on heads of Erelus or Princesses on the throne in the interim of settling on a successor to a deceased Oba. A king may also place the coronet on head of a heir-prince for blessings, as was the case when Oba Akinsemoyin sat his crown on head of little Ologun Kutere and signalled beginning of a new dynasty.

Yoruba traditional crowns (sacred) are of two, or perharps more, but I am conversant with two and the perched birds are common to both.

1 - beaded
2 - non beaded.

Beside these two there are special crowns, worn only for certain rituals, for instance the Aare Crown.

Do you really think, this Oluiwo is justifying this great exalted position, he occupies with all these controversies around him? So, disheartening seeing all the negative impression, he is adorning Yoruba heritage with his “funkify " style, that are not part of Yoruba's king's characteristics. Reading some piece about him at times make me feel moody.


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