Efunsetan aniwura

Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith's Efunsetan Aniwura, Iyalode Ibadan and Olu Omo (Tinuubu), Iyalode Egba, is an annotated English translation of Akinwumi Isola's trailblazing dramas of two powerful, nineteenth century Iyalode during the seventy-year protracted internecine Yoruba wars. Besides important male historical figures, change agents included a number of very distinguished women who have been written out of history, but whose trajectory, undoubtedly, did not stop with the nineteenth century. Thus, in capturing the stories of Iyalode Efunsetan and Tinuubu, Isola speaks on behalf of the collective who make up the vast list of distinguished women in African history whose life stories and contributions to the economic, social, and political development of their respective societies are waiting to be told for posterity and for scholarship. More than a work of literature, Efunsetan Aniwura, Iyalode Ibadan & Olu Omo (Tinuubu), Iyalode Egba, affords the modern reader a primer of Yoruba culture.