Orompoto

Orompoto (also spelled: Oronpoto)[1] was the first female Alaafin of Oyo, also the empire's titled ruler.[2][3][4][5] She was the sister of her predecessor, Eguguojo.[6] She assumed the throne because there was no male successor from her elder brother at the time.[7] Orompoto lived in the 16th-century.[8][9] She was considered a skillful warrior and was known according to Oyo tales of her inadvertent victory at the battle of Illayi. While fighting her enemies, she lost three leaders of the van, called Gbonkas in Oyo. The third, however, fell with his teeth grinding and his mouth grinning, the enemies thought he was alive and was making a mocking gesture and were overwhelmed by what they considered their inability to wrestle with the Oyo gbokas. The enemies later decided to call it quits, with the Oyo later claiming victory.

Orompoto used horses extensively in military battles and may have obtained them from Borgu.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Harry George Judge; Robert Blake (1988). World history, Volume 1 (Volumes 3-4 of Oxford illustrated encyclopedia). Oxford University Press (University of Michigan). p. 266. ISBN 9780198691358.
  2. ↑ Toyin Falola; Ann Genova (2006). The Yoruba in Transition: History, Values, and Modernity. Carolina Academic Press (University of Michigan). p. 427. ISBN 9781594601347.
  3. ↑ Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff (1993). Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa. University of Chicago Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-226-1143-92.
  4. ↑ Oyeronke Olajubu (2003). Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere (McGill Studies in the History of Religions). SUNY Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780791458860.
  5. ↑ Kulwant Rai Gupta (2006). Studies in World Affairs, Volume 1. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 101. ISBN 9788126904952.
  6. ↑ Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (2005). African Gender Studies: A Reader. Springer. p. 178. ISBN 9781137090096.
  7. ↑ J. Lorand Matory (2005). Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion (Berghahn Series). Berghahn Books. p. 84. ISBN 9781571813077.
  8. ↑ "Chronology of Oyo Kingdom's Alaafins". Odua Voice. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  9. ↑ Basil Davidson (2014). West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850. Routledge. p. 114. ISBN 9781317882657.
  10. ↑ Samuel Johnson, Obadiah Johnson. The History of the Yorubas, From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. p. 161.


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