Akure

Akure was a Yoruba kingdom in the uplands northeast of Ife. According to oral history, Omoremilekun Asodeboyede came from Ile-Ife, defeated the local chief Alakure and founded its ruling dynasty.

In the fifteenth century Benin's Oba Ewuare suppressed an Akure revolt but left its king as nominal ruler. Under Ogunja, who ruled from 1533 to 1554, the kings adopted the title Deji. Akure regained independence by the early nineteenth century, but Benin captured it around 1818 and executed its Deji.