Efunsetan Aniwura: Yoruba's Most Powerful Woman That Ever Lived?

The story of Efunsetan Aniwura is perhaps one of the most motivating thrillers in Yoruba political history.

The story of Efunsetan Aniwura is perhaps one of the most motivating thrillers in Yoruba political history. It captivates, in the most astounding manner, the place of women in Yoruba political history.

But all along, the story of Efunsetan had been written and foretold by her tormentors and painted grimly by mostly chauvinistic men.

Yoruba epic films and folklores portray Efunsetan as a very vicious woman, filled with prejudice, a woman who died in tragic circumstances.

But there are hidden thrills and heroic feat that those who wrote his history continue to undermine.

There is nothing as perplexing as having the story of a great woman being relayed by men, in a society credited for not giving women any chance in socio-political affairs, especially in the primordial times, where women were seen as objects consigned to the kitchen and on the mat top.

It is to the glory of Moremi, that her story definitely ignited passion in subsequent Yoruba women, one of which was Efunsetan Aniwura.

This woman of substance has been consistently portrayed as a villain who ran a Gestapo of sorrow and blood, a blood-sucker who beheaded people’s head at will.

20 FACTS ABOUT EFUNSETAN ANIWURA

1: The story of Efunsetan Aniwura is intriguing. Her date of birth remains uncertain, but she must have been born around 1790s or around that period.

2: Efunsetan was the son of an Egba farmer, Ogunrin, a native of Egba Oke-Ona.

3: She rose to become the Iyalode of Ibadan.

4: She was the first woman to set up a flourishing agrarian economy that employed no fewer than 2000 men and women.

5: Around 1850, worried by the spread of war and combat in the Yoruba country, she introduced infantry military training into the midst of her workers.

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Myth or legend or fact?