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The Yorùbá are the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, comprising approximately 26 percent of that country's total population, and numbering about close to 50 million individuals throughout the region of West Africa. While the majority of the Yorùbá live largely in the south-west of Nigeria, there are also substantial Yorùbá communities in Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil. West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and...
The Yorùbá are the main ethnic group in the states of Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Kogi, Edo (Akoko Edo), and Oyo; they also constitute a sizable proportion of the citizens of the Republic of Benin. The majority of Yorùbá people are Christians, with the Church of Nigeria (Anglican), Catholic, Pentecostal, Methodist, and Indigenous churches having the largest memberships. Muslims comprise about a quarter of the Yorùbá population, with the traditional Yorùbá religion accounting for the rest. Ekita State is one of the states of Nigeria. ...
Lagos State, Nigeria was created on May 27, 1967. ...
Ogun State, Nigeria was created in February 1976 from the former Western region. ...
Ondo State, Nigeria was created on February 3, 1976 from the former Western region. ...
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The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican Church in Nigeria. ...
The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ...
The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ...
A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ...
The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the worlds oldest widely practised religions. ...
The chief Yorùbá cities are Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Akure, Ilorin, Ijebu Ode, Ogbomoso, Ondo, Ota, Shagamu, Iseyin, Osogbo, Ilesha, Oyo and Ilé-Ifè. Map of Nigeria showing Lagos on the left Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and, with its population of 13. ...
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Abeokuta is a city of southwest Nigeria, situated at 7°8N, 3°25E, on the Ogun river, 64 miles north of Lagos by railway, or 81 miles by water. ...
Akure is a city in the southwestern region of Nigeria, and is the capital of Ondo state. ...
Ilorin is the sixth largest city in Nigeria and is the capital of Kwara State. ...
Located in south-western Nigeria, Ijebu Ode with over 100,000 residents is the second largest city in Ogun State after Abeokuta. ...
Ogbomosho City (also spelled Ogbomoso) is located in the present day Oyo state in south west Nigeria, and was founded in the 17th century. ...
Ondo City is the largest city in Ondo state, Nigeria. ...
Ota can refer to the ward of Ōta in Tokyo the city of Ota, Nigeria in Nigeria the city of Ōta in Gunma prefecture of Japan. ...
Oyo is the name for a city in Africa and also the loose empire which that city controlled in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
A bronze cast depicting the head of an Ooni, or king, from 1100s-1200s Ife. ...
Sport: Yorùbáland stadia include the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 capacity), Teslim Balogun stadium (35,000 capacity), Liberty Stadium, Ibadan (40,000 capacity). A national stadium is a stadium that typically serves as the primary or exclusive home for one or more of a countrys national representative sports teams. ...
Education: Yorùbáland has over 2000 secondary schools, and over 10000 primary schools. The major Universities are listed below
- University of Lagos
- Lagos State University
- University of Ibadan
- University of Agric, abeokuta
- Ogun State University
- Covenant University
- Bowen University
- Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso
- Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo
- Ondo State University
- Wesley University, Ondo
- Federal University of Technology Akure
- City University, Ibadan
- Redeemer University, Ede
- University of Ilorin, Ilorin
- Obafemi Awolowo Universtiy, Ile Ife
- Babcork University, Iwo
- Cetep University, Lagos
- Pan Africa University, Lekki, Lagos
- University of Ado Ekiti
- Bell University of Technology, Badagry,lagos
- Crawford University, Oye, Ekiti
- Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji
- Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State
- The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State
- The Federal Polytechnic, Idah, Benue State
The University of Lagos was established in October 1962 with 130 students and a staff complement of 30(16 from the Medical School). ...
Covenant University is a private university in Nigeria. ...
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The Federal University of Technology Akure (also known as FUTA) was founded in 1981 as part of the then Nigeria Military Governments drive to create Universities that specialised in producing graduates with the practical as well as theoretical knowledge of the latest technologies in common use around the world. ...
History
The Yorùbá were the most urbanized sub-saharan Africans in the pre-colonial era, and have a history of town-dwelling that goes back to 500 A.D. The wealth of the Yorùbá came from controlling the important trade routes to the coast. The pre-colonial Yorùbá had recently been forced further south by the Fulani who made extensive use of cavalry. The Yorùbá lost the northern portion of their region, retreating to the latitudes where tsetse flies made horses unable to survive. World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ...
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Fula women in the East Province of Cameroon The Fula is an ethnic group of people spread over many countries in West Africa, from Mauritania in the northwest to Cameroon in the east. ...
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Binomial name Glossina morsitans The tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans, is a fly (order Diptera) that eats blood from animals, including humans. ...
The Yorùbá were a loose confederacy that often saw wars between the city states. In theory all Yorùbá acknowledge the leadership of the ancient city of Ife in religious matters and the rule of the recently risen rulers of Oyo as political leader. The ruler of Oyo held the power to confirm or reject the leaders of the other cities, but this power could not always be executed. A bronze cast depicting the head of an Ooni, or king, from 1100s-1200s Ife. ...
Oyo is the name for a city in Africa and also the loose empire which that city controlled in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
Most of the city states were controlled by heriditary monarchs and councils made up of nobles, guild leaders, and merchants. Different states saw differing ratios of power between the two. Some had an autocratic monarch with almost total control, in others the councils were supreme and the king little more than a figurehead. A guild is an association of persons of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards of morality or conduct. ...
Merchants function as professional traders, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves. ...
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The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the worlds oldest widely practised religions. ...
External links - Picture of Lagos (http://www.geocities.com/seelagos)
- Picture of Ibadan (http://www.geocities.com/seeibadan)
- Picture of Ilorin (http://www.geocities.com/nigeriacities1)
- A Yoruba family website (http://www.soyombo.org)
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