"It Took A Lot Of Bravery" Ooni Of Ife's Former Wife Open Up On How It Was Hard To Leave Him.

Queen Zaynab, the former wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, spoke to Vogue Arabia about how tough it was to divorce him.

Zaynab revealed the following during the interview:

“It’s interesting to hear that being the first queen out of Africa to dissolve my marriage with a king is considered a thing,” she says. It took a lot of bravery to make such a decision. “I wanted to make a statement about what I believed in.”

She continued, “At a point during my absence from the King, I had an epiphany. So I sat down and talked to myself, deciding to help all those who are oppressed.”

“I want to raise all those who are impoverished,” she said of her eponymous organization, which was founded in 2019 and focused on assisting domestic violence victims, helping women achieve financial independence, and granting young girls scholarships.