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SERIES TITLE : YORUBA OBAS

I have done a story about Oduduwa and so today i will start with Osangangan Obamakin who was the 2nd Ooni of Ife, a paramount traditional ruler of Ile Ife, the ancestral home of the Yorubas. He succeeded Ooni Oduduwa and was succeeded by his son, Ooni Ogun.

Ooni Ogun was the 3rd Ooni of Ife, a paramount traditional ruler of Ile Ife, the ancestral home of the Yorubas. He succeeded his father Ooni Osangangan Obamakin and was succeeded by Obalufon Ogbogbodirin.

Obalufon Ogbogbodirin was the 4th Ooni of Ife

A paramount traditional ruler of Ile Ife, the ancestral home of the Yorubas. He was succeeded by his son, Ooni Obalufon Alayemore.

Obalufon Alayemore was the 5th Ooni of Ife, He succeeded his father Obalufon Ogbogbodirin and was succeeded by Ooni Oranmiyan...

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He was a very brave and warlike Prince, and of an indomitable courage.

According to Yoruba history, he founded Oyo as its first Alaafin at around the year 1300 after he had left Benin where he had been crowned the first Oba of Benin.

Following the Oba Oranyan's death, his family erected the commemorative stele known as the Staff of Oranmiyan - Opa Oranmiyan

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This obelisk Is 5.5m tall and about 1.2m in circumference at its base. During a storm in 1884 about 1.2m was broken off from its top and it has fallen down about twice and re-erected. It currently stands in a groove in Mopa, Ile-Ife.

I will do a brief history of Oranmiyan in Benin kingdom.

There was need for spiritual and political direction and the Edo chiefs consulted Ife, this was after the death of Ogiso Owodo, Oduduwa decided to send with them Oranmiyan for the help they required as king

As it is a normal occurrence to meet oppositions, he however met opposition from the kindred of the Ogiso, and was refused entrance into the city upon his arrival there. He camped at a place called Uselu, meaning "making of a city" or "Politicking", and began to rule there.

His style of management didn't go down well with the Edo chiefs, and they sent men to check on him. This made Oranmiyan conclude that only a son of the soil can cope with the attitude of the Igodomigodo people and he called the land "Ile - Ibinu", meaning "Land of Vexation".

On leaving Ile-Ibinu (later Ibini, and to "Benin" by the Portuguese), he stopped briefly at Ego where he took Erinwide, the daughter of the Enogie of Ego, as a wife. Eweka I was the result of this union. Oranmiyan was never to return to Benin.

Oromiyan as pronounced by the Edo people, is recognized as the first Oba of Benin & founder of the Eweka dynasty, which is still ruling today.

After leaving Ile-Ibinu at about the year of the Lord 1290, he moved north with his ever loyal entourage and settled close to the river

Moshi (a tributary to the Niger River). He founded a city, Oyo-Ile, which his descendants then expanded into the Oyo Empire. He engaged in war with the Bariba, his immediate neighbors to the north, and married Torosi, a Tapa princess, who became mother to Sango Akata Yẹri-Yẹri.

After a long reign an urgent necessity
made him revisit the city of ile Ife, which he had left for so long a, to arrange some family affairs, possess himself
of some of his father's treasures left in charge of Adimu.

He left his son Ajaka as Regent, having stayed much longer than the time fixed for his return (communication between the
two places being then dangerous and difficult) the people thought
he was dead, or that at any rate he would no more return to OYO

The OYO MESI who were the authorised rulers of the town, confirmed Ajaka on the throne, investing him with full
powers, and all the insignia of royalty.

But his father was returning ; and having come within a short distance of the city,

The sound of the Kakaki trumpet — a trumpet blown for the sovereign alone, was what he heard as he got closer to the town.

Upon enquiry, he learnt what had taken place. He then decided to go quietly to ile Ife where he spent the rest of his
days in peaceful retirement.

An obelisk termed Opa Oranyan
(Orafiyan's staff) erected on the spot he was supposed to have been
buried is shown at He Ife to this day. This would seem to confirm
the view that he died and was buried at He Ife and not at 0yo, as I have given its details in some tweets above

There are 61 nails in midline which represent the number of years
Oranmiyan lived, and that the 31 each on either side indicates that he was 31 when he began to reign, and that he reigned 31 years,
the year he began to reign being counted twice as is the manner of the Yorubas

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