Luwo (Ooni)

Ooni Lúwo Gbàgìdá (sometimes spelled as Luwo) was the 21st Ooni of Ife, a paramount traditional ruler of Ile Ife, the ancestral home of the Yorubas in the 10th century.^[1][2]

She was the first and the only female paramount ruler of Ile-ife known to be the origin of Yoruba ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, succeeding Ooni Giesi and succeeded by Ooni Lumobi.^[3] Ooni Luwoo's reign remains the only one by a female in Ife to date. Her son Adekola Telu was the founder of the Iwo Kingdom.^[4]