Is Efunroye Tinubu related to Bola Tinubu?

Efunroye Tinubu, was a powerful Yoruba female aristocrat, merchant, and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria.

She was a politically and economically influential figure in Lagos during the reigns of Obas (monarchs) Adele, Dosunmu, Oluwole, and Akitoye, helping the latter two Obas gain political power.

She sold slaves to Brazilian and European merchants in violation of an 1852 treaty with Great Britain outlawing the slave trade in Lagos.

Her economic hegemony over Lagos and secret slave trading resulted in her coming into conflict with British and rival Lagos merchants. She was exiled to Abeokuta under British pressure after plotting an unsuccessful conspiracy to remove British influence from Lagos.

Is Efunroye Tinubu related to Bola Tinubu?

After all, most people identified with the Tinubu family name in Lagos today aren’t related to Madam Efunroye Tinubu. There is probably no “indigenous” Lagos family that is more famous than the Tinubu family. But, although the family is now clearly culturally Yoruba, its ethnic provenance is traceable to what is now Borno State, according to Lagos historians, underscoring the historical and sociological inaccuracy of notions of ethnic purism in Nigeria.

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