Araromi-Ekiti, formerly known as Era, is one of the twenty-two towns and villages that made up the old Ijero Kingdom — itself one of the sixteen confederated Ekiti Kingdoms before British colonial rule. Its people are off-shoots from the mother town, Ijero-Ekiti, who migrated from Ita Ajero quarters in Ile-Ife, the cradle of the Yoruba people.
The community was founded by Dada Awuru, a younger prince of the Ajero of Ijero. Oral tradition tells that Dada Awuru left Ile-Ife with the Ajero but later departed on a hunting expedition and subsequently got missing. After looking for him for a while and Upon finding his missing brother, the Ajero exclaimed: "Ati ri, Emo Ra Ooo!" — "We have finally found him, he is not missing" — and this gave the town its former name, ERA.
Dada Awuru later settled at Ijiko along Epe Road, where the people recognised his royal lineage and eventually crowned him king of the settlement. In time, the community moved to its present site and became known as Araromi-Ekiti.
On April 25th, 1936, T. B. Bovell-Jones, Assistant District Officer of the Ijero District Council, became the first European to visit the community — accompanied by High Chief Isaac Fasugba Adeniran, the Obanla, and High Chief D. S. Obasa, the Odofin of Ijero-Ekiti.
Since 1976, following the creation of the old Ondo State, Araromi-Ekiti has remained within Ijero Local Government Area. Together with Ara and Epe, it forms the political unit known as Ekameta Ward.