Madam Tinubu
Madam Efunroye Tinubu (c. 1810 – 1887) was a politically significant figure in Nigerian history because of her role as a powerful female aristocrat and slave trader in feudal Nigeria.[1][2]
Life and career
Madam Tinubu was a slave trader and adversary of the British Colonial Government of what is now Nigeria, and was banished by it to Abeokuta from Lagos for subverting[3] the 1852 Treaty outlawing the Atlantic Slave Trade.
She became the first Iyalode of the Egba clan and was able to build a small financial empire through trading in arms and salt. She died in 1887.[4]
Tinubu Square on Lagos Island, a place previously known as Independence Square, is named after the late Oloye. Ita Tinubu (Tinubu's precinct or Tinubu Square) had been known by that name long before the country's independence, but it was renamed Independence Square by the leaders of the First Republic. Madam Tinubu was buried at Ojokodo Quarters in Abeokuta.[5]
Notes
- ↑ "Madam Tinubu: Inside the political and business empire of a 19th century heroine". The Nation. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- ↑ Judybee (2011). Madam Tinubu: Queens of Africa. MX Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908-2185-82.
- ↑ Smith, Robert. The Lagos Consulate, 1851-1861. University of California Press, 1979. pp. 73–74. ISBN 9780520037465.
- ↑ Foster, Hannah. "Tinubu, Madam Efunroye (ca. 1805-1887)". The Black Past. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ↑ Yemitan, Oladipo. Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker. University Press, 1987. p. 72.
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