What is Efunsetan Aniwura?
{{complex|date=January 2025}} {{Improve categories|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà | title = Ìyálóde of egba land. | titletext = |image= | reign = {{nowrap|1867 – May 1, 1874}} | coronation = 1867 | father = Ogunrin | birth_date = c. 1820s | birth_place = [[Abeokuta]] | death_place = Ibadan | death_date = June 30, 1874 | issue = 1 (daughter, died 1860) }} Chief madam '''Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà''' (c. 1820s–June 30, 1874) was the second Iyalode of Ibadan, a high-ranking female chieftain in most of the Yoruba traditional states. She is also regarded as one of the leading slave dealers in the 19th century in Ibadan. Her influence was felt in Ibadan's political, military, economic, and religious realms. She became known as a brilliant trader and merchant. She was known for being the most wealthy and powerful Yoruba woman to have ever lived. Historians have characterized her as a powerful ruler who frequently executed disobedient slaves. This has been attributed to a psychiatric breakdown brought on by the loss of her only child and her subsequent infertility.<ref>http://www.oasisinternationaljournal.org/journals/2014/Arts%202014/Women%20in%20Nigeria%20History%20and%20Evaluation%20of%20the%20Place%20of%20and%20Values%20accorded%20to%20women%20in%20Nigeria.pdf</ref> <ref>https://www.pulse.ng/gist/efunsetan-aniwura-the-most-powerful-woman-in-the-yoruba-kingdom/mkt0xke</ref> ==Early life== '''Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà''' was born in [[Ikija-Egba]] land in 1820s, Her family later moved to [[Ibadan]] after the fall of Ikija. Her mother was from [[Ile-Ife]], while her father, Chief Ogunrin, was an Ikija warrior. Her mother, who used to be a small-time trader, was said to have passed down her entrepreneurial spirit to her. Along with her regular accompanies her mother to the major markets in [[Abeokuta]] helped her to succeed as a trader. She was married multiple times and had a child, who later died at a very tender age. This event was said to have infl