ODUDUWA: The First King

Before the kingdoms, before the lineages, before the first crown was ever placed on a human head — there was one who descended, and everything began.

In the Yoruba tradition, Oduduwa stands at the origin of the world itself: the ancestor from whom all living things descend, the founder of Ile-Ife, the sacred city where creation began, and the first king from whose line every Yoruba dynasty traces its blood. He is not merely a figure of legend. He is the root — the father of civilization, the source of kingship, and the ancestral foundation upon which an entire people, and their spiritual inheritance, still stands.

In Oduduwa: The First King, #1 bestselling author Ajarn Shaman Shu (Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola) returns to the beginning — to the ancestor whose descent set the world in motion and whose legacy shaped the Yoruba world and its diaspora.

Inside you'll discover:

Who Oduduwa truly is — the Yoruba ancestor of all living things and the first king The founding of Ile-Ife, the sacred city where creation began The origins of kingship and civilization in the Yoruba world The sacred stories of Oduduwa's descent and the shaping of the earth His enduring lineage — the dynasties, crowns, and peoples that descend from him What the first ancestor teaches about wisdom, power, and the inheritance you carry

Spirituality, ancestry, civilization, wisdom, power — this is the story at the root of them all, and the ancestor whose blood still runs through millions.

The father of civilization. The founder of Ile-Ife. The ancestor of all living things. This is Oduduwa, the First King.