Obalufon II
Obalufon Alayemore (Yoruba language, Yoruba: Ọbalùfọ̀n Aláyémọrẹ) was an Ooni of Ife, a paramount traditional ruler of Ile Ife, the ancestral home of the Yoruba people, Yorubas. He succeeded his father Obalufon Ogbogbodirin who succeeded Obatala. Obalufon Alayemore was succeeded by Ooni Oranyan, Oranmiyan. Obalufon II left the throne briefly for Oranyan, Oranmiyan, who had just returned from establishing kingdoms across the Yoruba land and Kingdom_of_Benin, Benin. He established cities and towns like Ido-Ogun, Ilara, and many more before returning to succeed Oranyan, Oranmiyan becoming the first and only Ooni to be crowned twice. The arts associated with Obalufon are dated based on radiocarbon and thermoluminescence analysis. But historians have argued that the dates could be wrong. Most of the artefacts associated with Obalufon were found in a second burial background, making the test unreliable as soil analyses in the first burial would have yielded useful informatio ...
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