Efon Alaaye

Efon Alaaye is a Yoruba town in Ekiti State in southwestern Nigeria and belongs to Efon Local Government, which Wikipedia describes as one of the largest local governments in the state. The article gives its population as over 100,000 in 1983. Its people are chiefly farmers who grow kolanuts, cocoa and palm trees and are also noted producers of yam, rice, cassava, maize and fruit. The town is ruled by a king called the Alaaye of Efon, assisted by six high chiefs who head six quarters, known together as the iwara mefa. Local historical accounts date the town to about 1200 and credit its founding to Obalufon Alaayemore, an early Ooni of Ile-Ife. Christianity is widely practised, with Catholic, Anglican and Christ Apostolic Church congregations, and the town sits on hilly, relatively rough terrain.