Located in Ile-Ife, Osun State of Yorubaland, the Oranmiyan staff is a commemorative stele or ancient upright stone slab bearing markings telling its own story. The Oranmiyan staff is fabled to have been erected by the descendants of Oranmiyan Omoluabi, an ancient Yoruba king that ruled Ile-Ife and an heir to Oduduwa, the founder of the Yoruba people.

The Oranmiyan staff is said to have been put up where Oranmiyan himself died. The staff was however tested with radiocarbon analysis and revealed to have been erected for several centuries before the Oduduwa dynasty started in Ile-Ife. Oranmiyan was the first Alaafin of Oyo after he founded the town in 1170, and Eweka I – one of his sons later became the first Oba of the ancient Benin Empire.