Iyamode is seated on the left, and Iya Naso is seated on the right. While there are eight strong women in the Alaafin’s palace, Iyamode, Iya Kere, and Iya Naso are the most formidable. The circumstances surrounding his death’s aftermath.
The Death and King’s Horseman
When the 1946 ceremony commemorating the Alaâfins’ death was set to take place, a British officer went out and arrested Eleshin Oba, throwing him into jail because, as per British law, attempting suicide is a crime.
In order to bury his father, the son of Eleshin Oba, who was a trader in Ghana’s Gold Coast at the time, hurried back home.
Upon witnessing him in life, he was so appalled by the depravity that he instantly took his own life. Pierre Verger first studied and recounted the historical incident in the 1960s. Prof. Wole Soyinka’s play was first released in 1975.
