# \# Queen Moremi: courageous queen of Ile-Ife

**URL:** https://ps.zoethical.org/t/queen-moremi-courageous-queen-of-ile-ife/3964
**Category:** Engage
**Created:** [August 4, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/queen-moremi-courageous-queen-of-ile-ife/3964 "2020-08-04T13:10:29Z")
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### Author: ![natacha](https://ps.zoethical.org/user_avatar/ps.zoethical.org/natacha/32/3145_2.png) [@natacha](https://ps.zoethical.org/u/natacha)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/queen-moremi-courageous-queen-of-ile-ife/3964/2 "2020-08-11T16:05:32Z")

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Thank you very much for this beautiful story. there is a wikipedia page about Queen Moremi, but as usual for african history, very light and would probably need to be completed:

> **[Moremi Ajasoro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moremi_Ajasoro)**
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> Moremi Ajasoro (Yoruba: Mọremí Àjàṣorò) was a legendary Yoruba queen and folk heroine in the Yorubaland region of present-day southwestern Nigeria who is fabled to have assisted in the liberation of the Yoruba kingdom of Ife from the neighbouring Ugbo Kingdom.
> Moremi was married to Oranmiyan, the son of Oduduwa, the first king of Ife.
> The Ayaba (Queen Consort) Moremi lived in the 12th century, hailed from Offa, and was married to Oranmiyan, the ...

We have almost no knowlege about the fabulous history of africa, the little information available has transited through occidental hands:

> **[File:Nicolas Desliens1.JPG](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolas_Desliens1.JPG)**

there must be other references that I do not know about.

Other topics related here: [Map of Central and North East Africa](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/map-of-central-and-north-east-africa/478)

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