The 19th century businesswoman Madam Efunroye Tinubu exemplifies this belief. In her time she was the wealthiest woman in the Yoruba kingdom. Not only did she have wealth, she was influential and a ...

Efunroye Tinubu was a powerful female political and economic figure in both Abeokuta and Lagos. Born in Abeokuta in the early 1800s, she married and had two sons, but her husband passed away soon ...