Akinsemoyin

Akinsemoyin
Oba of Lagos
Reign	c1760–1775
Predecessor	Gabaro
Successor	Eletu Kekere
Born	Lagos
Died	Lagos
Burial	Benin
Father	Ado

Oba Akinsemoyin reigned as Oba of Lagos from around 1760 to 1775. His father was Oba Ado and his siblings were Erelu Kuti and Oba Gabaro, whom he succeeded.Akinsemoyin had 4 sons: Onisiwo, Oniru, Akogun, and Sadeko.

Akinsemoyin had a disagreement with his brother, Oba Gabaro over installation of Olofin's descendants as chiefs, resulting in Akinsemoyin's banishment to Badagry. At Badagry, Akinsemoyin was exposed to commerce and built relationships with European slave traders.

When Gabaro died, Akinsemoyin became Oba around 1760 despite Gabaro having a son, Eletu Kekere or in some accounts Eletu Omo. Akinsemoyin established the slave trade in Lagos by inviting Portuguese and Brazilian slave merchants whom he had met in exile at Badagry. Historian J. F. Ade Ajayi asserted that Akinsemoyin granted a monopoly on slave trade to his Brazilian and Portuguese trading partners.

Under Akinsemoyin's reign, Iga Idunganran was for the first time covered with tiles, reportedly presented as gifts by Portuguese slave merchants.

Akinsemoyin died in 1775. Though he had 4 sons, was succeeded as Oba by Eletu Kekere, Gabaro's son.

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