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The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in West Africa. The Yoruba constitute approximately 30 percent of Nigeria's total population, and around 40 million individuals throughout the region of West Africa. They share borders with the Borgu (variously called Bariba and Borgawa) in the northwest, the Nupe and Ebira in the north, the Ẹsan and Ẹdo to the southeast, the Igala and other related groups to the northeast, and the Egun, Fon, and other Gbe-speaking peoples in the southwest. While the majority of the Yoruba live in southwestern Nigeria, there are also substantial indigenous Yoruba communities in Benin, Ghana and Togo, as well as large diasporic Yoruba communities in Sierra Leone, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Trinidad, the Caribbean, and the United States. Yoruba (native name Yorùbá) is a dialect continuum of sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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The Itsekiri (also called the Jekri, Isekiri or Ishekiri) are an ethnic group of Nigerias Niger delta area, particularly the city of Warri. ...
The Igala or Igara are a people of Nigeria. ...
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Borgu was a country in Africa, partitioned between the British and French colonialists by the Anglo-French Convention of 1898. ...
The Nupe are an ethnic group located primarily in the middle belt and northern Nigeria. ...
Ebira is a language spoken in Nigeria. ...
Esan is one of the major ethnic groups from Edo State in Nigeria. ...
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The Yoruba are the main ethnic group in the states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo, which are political subdivisions of Nigeria; they also constitute a sizable proportion of Kwara and Kogi states as well as of the Republic of Benin. 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. ...
Osun State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria. ...
Oyo State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan. ...
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Many people of African descent in the Americas have claim to Yoruba ancestry (along with several other ethnic groups) to some degree. A significant percentage of Africans enslaved in the Americas originated from this region.
History
Origin Myth Several versions of the Yoruba origin exist, the most popular of which revolves around a figure named Oduduwa. As recorded by one of the earliest Yoruba historians, Reverend Samuel Johnson (an Ọyọ convert to Christianity), Oduduwa was the head of an invading army from the East (a locale often identified with Mecca, Egypt, the Sudan, or northeastern Nigeria) who established the constitutional monarchic system of government amongst the indigenous population he found. In Yorùbá mythology, Odùduwà was the son of Olorun, sent by him from heaven to create the earth. ...
Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican minister and historian of the Yoruba who is sometimes called The Reverend Samuel Johnson for being an Anglican minister. ...
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Other versions of the myth posit that Oduduwa was sent down by Ọlọrun Olodumare, the Creator, to fashion the first human beings out of the clay soil of Ilė-Ifę. Odudua is also the name of an important Earth goddess, the wife of Ọbatala, and some scholars postulate a connection between the semi-mythical founder of the Ifẹ, Ọyọ, and Benin monarchic traditions and the ancient female deity. The name Oduduwa has been translated to mean "the one ("O/Ohun") who created the knowledge ("odu") of character ("iwa")" or "o dudu, o l'ewa/o n'iwa": he's black and beautiful/well-mannered, signifying the figure's paramount role in establishing Yoruba philosophy and blackness, whether mythical or historical. Yoruba people are always referred to as "Yoruba, Omo Oduduwa(O'odua)", sons of Oduduwa. The name is also linked to the literature of the Yoruba geomantic divination system, Ifa. The poetic chapters memorized and chanted by divination consultants (babalawo) during an Ifa session are called "odu". In Yorùbá mythology, Olorun is the Sky Father (though occasionally androgynous or female), and a god of peace, purity and harmony. ...
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In Yorùbá mythology, Odùduwà was the son of Olorun, sent by him from heaven to create the earth. ...
Ifè (or Ilé-Ifẹ̀, as it is properly known) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria. ...
Oyo (Ọyọ in Yoruba orthography, pronounced ) is the name for a Yoruba city in modern-day Nigeria and also the loose empire which that city controlled in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
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Oduduwa was the founder of Ile-Ife. He was sent from the heavens by Olodumare to establish the earth and create its inhabitants after another minister of Olodumare, Obatala, failed to do this. To this effect, Oduduwa was given a cock and a sack of sand since the earth was covered with water at that time. While climbing down from the heavens, he lost grip of the cock that started flying down and in his bid to catch the cock let loose the sack of sand. Sand started slipping down onto the water down below. Getting down, Oduduwa realised that the sand had formed a small "land hill" protruding from the water and that the cock had perched on it spreading the sand with its legs. The land started spreading forming the soil of the earth. He named that spot Ile n'fe, the earth was extending, and hence the name of Ile-Ife, the ancestral town of humanity and the Yoruba. Obatala later came down with the others and created the humans. In Yorùbá mythology, Odùduwà was the son of Olorun, sent by him from heaven to create the earth. ...
In Yoruba mythology, Oloddumare is a creative force that drove the establishment of existence and the entire universe. ...
In Yoruba mythology, Obàtálá (alternatively Obatala) was a creator god; he made human bodies, and his father, Olorun (husband of Olokun), breathed life into them. ...
General History By 900 AD the Yoruba city-state of Ile Ife established itself as the dominate power in the land of the Yoruba (central and southwest Nigeria, Benin, and Togo)though complex states existed throughout the region. The city of Ile Ife, inhabitated by Yoruba in the 4th Century BCE, became the culture center of the people. In theory, Yoruba city-states largely acknowledged the primacy of the ancient city of Ile Ife. The southeastern Benin Empire, ruled by a dynasty that traced its ancestry to Ifẹ and Oduduwa but largely populated by the Ẹdo and other related ethnicities, also held considerable sway in the election of nobles and kings in eastern Yorubaland.
Most of the city states were controlled by monarchs (Obas) and councils made up of nobles, guild leaders, and merchants. Different states saw differing ratios of power between the two. Some had powerful, semi-autocratic monarchs with almost total control, while in others the senatorial councils were supreme and the Ọba served as a figurehead. In all cases, Yoruba monarchs were always subject to the continuing approval of their constituents, and could be easily compelled to abdicate for demonstrating dictatorial tendencies or incompetence. The order to vacate the throne was usually communicated through a symbolic message, or aroko, of parrots' eggs delivered by the senators. A guild is an association of people of the same trade or pursuits (with a similar skill or craft), formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards of workmanship and ethical conduct. ...
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Before the abolition of the slave trade, some Yoruba groups were known among Europeans as Akú, a name derived from the first words of Yoruba greetings such as Ẹ kú àárọ? ‘good morning’ and Ẹ kú alẹ? ‘good evening’. The terms "Nago", "Anago", and "Ana", derived from the name of a coastal Yoruba sub-group in the present-day Republic of Benin, were also widely used in Spanish and Portuguese documents to describe all speakers of the language. Yoruba in francophone West Africa are still sometimes known by this ethnonym today. In Cuba and Spanish-speaking America, the Yoruba were called "Lucumi", after the phrase "O luku mi", meaning "my friend" in some dialects. During the 19th century, the term Yariba or Yoruba came into wider use, first confined to the Ọyọ. The term is often believed to be derived from a Hausa ethnonym for the populous people to their south, but this has not been substantiated by historians. As an ethnic description, the word first appeared in a treatise written by the Songhai scholar Ahmed Baba (1500s) and is likely to derive from the indigenous ethnonyms Ọyọ (Oyo) or Yagba, two Yoruba-speaking groups along the northern borders of their terrority. However, it is likely that the ethnonym was popularized by Hausa usage and ethnography written in Arabic and Ajami. Under the influence of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba clergyman, subsequent missionaries extended the term to include all speakers of related dialects. The Hausa are a people of northern Nigeria and south-eastern Niger. ...
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Oyo (Ọyọ in Yoruba orthography, pronounced ) is the name for a Yoruba city in modern-day Nigeria and also the loose empire which that city controlled in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
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The pre-colonial Yoruba living in the savannah region between the forest and the Niger river were pressed further south by conflicts with the Sokoto Caliphate, a militant Muslim empire founded by the Fulani Quranic scholar Uthman Dan Fodio. After usurping power in the Hausa city-states of northern Nigeria, the Sokoto Caliphate also seized power in Ilorin, one of the northernmost Yoruba towns, and ravaged Ọyọ-Ile, the capital city of the Ọyọ Empire. After losing the northern portion of their region to the cavalry-dependent Sokoto Caliphate, the Ọyọ for the most part retreated to the latitudes where tsetse flies made horses unable to survive. The Caliphate attempted to expand further into the southern region of modern-day Nigeria, but was decisively defeated by the armies of Ibadan, a newly-founded Yoruba city, in 1840. A savanna or savannah is a grassland with widely spaced trees, and occurs in several types of biomes. ...
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Ibadan ( Èbá-Ọdà n), reputed to be the largest indigenous city in Africa, south of the Sahara, is the capital of ỌyỠState. ...
Precolonial social organization Though monarchies were fairly common throughout the Yoruba-speaking region, they were not the only approach to government and social organization. The numerous Ẹgba communities, found in the forests below Ọyọ's savannah region, were a notable example. These independent polities often elected an Ọba, though real political, legislative, and judicial powers resided with the Ogboni, a council of notable elders. Egbado tribe (or now Yewa, a sub-group of the larger Yoruba people), inhabit the eastern area of Ogun West Senatorial District, Ogun State, in south-west Nigeria, Africa. ...
Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba-speaking polities of western Nigeria and eastern Republic of Bénin. ...
When citizens of more than 150 Ẹgba and Owu communities migrated to the fortified city-state of Abeokuta during the internecine wars of the 19th century, each quarter retained its own Ogboni council of civilian leaders, along with an Olorogun, or council of military leaders, and in some cases its own elected Obas or Baales. These independent councils then elected their most capable members to join a federal civilian and military council that represented the city as a whole. Commander Frederick Forbes, a representative of the British crown writing an account of his visit to the city in an 1853 edition of the Church Military Intelligencer, described Abẹokuta as having "four presidents", and the system of government as having "840 principal rulers or 'House of Lords,' 2800 secondary chiefs or 'House of Commons,' 140 principal military ones and 280 secondary ones." He described Abẹokuta and its system of government as "the most extraordinary republic in the world." Location of Abeokuta in Nigeria Abeokuta is a city of southwest Nigeria, situated at , on the Ogun river, 64 miles north of Lagos by railway, or 81 miles by water. ...
Gerontocratic leadership councils that guarded against the monopolization of power by a monarch were a proverbial trait of the Ẹgba, according to the eminent Ọyọ historian Reverend Samuel Johnson, but such councils were also well-developed among the northern Okun groups, the eastern Ekiti, and other groups falling under the Yoruba ethnic umbrella. Even in Ọyọ, the most centralized of the precolonial kingdoms, the Alaafin consulted on all political decisions with a prime minister (the Basọrun) and the council of leading nobles known as the Ọyọ Mesi. Ekiti State is an inland south-western state of Nigeria. ...
Ibadan, a city-state and proto-empire founded in the 19th century by a polyglot group of refugees, soldiers, and itinerant traders from Ọyọ and the other Yoruba sub-groups, largely dispensed with the concept of monarchism, preferring to elect both military and civil councils from a pool of eminent citizens. The city became a military republic, with distinguished soldiers wielding political powers through their election by popular acclaim and the respect of their peers. Similar practices were adopted by the Ijẹsa and other groups, which saw a corresponding rise in the social influence of military adventurers and successful entrepreneurs. Ibadan ( Èbá-Ọdà n), reputed to be the largest indigenous city in Africa, south of the Sahara, is the capital of Ọyá» State. ...
Occupational guilds, social clubs, secret or initatory societies, and religious units, commonly known as Ẹgbẹ in Yoruba, included the Parakoyi (or league of traders) and Ẹgbẹ Ọdẹ (hunter's guild), and maintained an important role in commerce, social control, and vocational education in Yoruba polities.
There are also examples of other peer organizations in the region. When the Ẹgba resisted the imperial domination of the Ọyọ Empire, a figure named Lisabi is credited with either creating or reviving a covert traditional organization named Ẹgbẹ Aro. This group, originally a farmers' union, was converted to a network of secret militias throughout the Ẹgba forests, and each lodge plotted to overthrow Ọyọ's Ajeles (appointed administrators) in the late 1700s.
Similarly, covert military resistance leagues like the Ekitiparapọ and the Ogidi alliance were organized during the 19th century wars by often-decentralized communities of the Ekiti, Ijẹṣa, Ìgbómìnà and Okun Yoruba in order to resist various imperial expansionist plans of Ibadan, Nupe, and the Sokoto Caliphate.
The monarchy of any city state was usually limited to a number of royal lineages. A family could be excluded from kingship and chieftancy if any family member, servant, or slave belonging to the family committed a crime such as theft, fraud, murder or rape. In other city-states, the monarchy was open to the election of any free-born male citizen. There are also, in Ileṣa, Ondo, and other Yoruba communities, several traditions of female Ọbas, though these were comparatively rare. Look up monarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The kings were almost always polygamous and many had as many as 20 wives and often married royal family members from other towns/city states. The term polygamy (literally many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology and sociology. ...
Culture The Yoruba are one of the ethnic groups in Africa whose cultural heritage and legacy are recognizable in the Americas, despite the debilitating effects of slavery. Oriṣa religion, often called "Ṣango" worship and various musical artforms popularized in Latin America, especially Cuba, and Puerto Rico are rooted in Yoruba music. Perhaps their best known material artist is Olowe of Ise. Their religious beliefs are complex, and recognize a wide variety of deities. Ọlọrun or Olodumare is venerated as the creator, with the other Oriṣas serving as emissaries or intermediaries that help with human concerns. As previously mentioned, the Yoruba have converted to Christianity and to a lesser extent Islam in large numbers since the 19th century. In the United States, they are recognizeable, along with other Nigerian immigrants, as very strict Christians, observing many of the conservative biblical views. They are also prominent in some urban Muslim congregations and continue to participate in various forms of Ifa/Oriṣa religious worship. For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ...
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In Yorùbá mythology, Shango (Xango, Shango), or Changó in Latin America, is perhaps the most popular Orisha; he is a Sky Father, god of thunder and the ancestor of the Yoruba. ...
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The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. ...
Olowe of Ise (born circa 1875, died circa 1938) is considered to be the most important 20th century artist of the Yoruba people of what is today Nigeria, Africa. ...
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The Yoruba performance repertoire includes various masquerade plays, folk operas, and a vibrant video cinema. One Yoruba masquerade, Gẹlẹdẹ from the Ketu region of the modern Republic of Benin, has been recognized as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Other aspects of Yoruba culture that have been recognized as masterpieces of human cultural ingenuity include the Ifa corpus, a collection of hundreds of poems used in divination ceremonies; and the Ọṣun-Oṣogbo Sacred Grove, one of the few remaining functional sites for traditional religious ceremonies in Nigeria and a magnet for visitors from all over the world. Countless scholarly articles have also examined the performances of Egungun (representative of ancestral spirits visiting the living); Epa (symbolic performances variously promoting valor and fertility); and Ẹyọ, a procession of masked dancers. UNESCO logo UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ...
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Osun temple in Osogbo Osun-Osogbo or Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is a sacred forest on the edges of Osogbo, Nigeria. ...
Yoruba religion and mythology
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Yoruba religion and mythology is a major influence in West Africa, chiefly in Nigeria, and it has given origin to several New World religions such as Santería in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Candomblé in Brazil. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (171x700, 25 KB) Summary Statue of Eshu-Elegbara, the trickster god. ...
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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. ...
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SanterÃa, also known as Lukumà or Regla de Ocha, is a set of related religious systems that fuse Catholic/Christian beliefs with traditional Yoruba beliefs. ...
Ilê Axé Iya Nassô Oká - Terreiro da Casa Branca Candomblé is an Afro-American religion practiced chiefly in Brazil but also in adjacent countries. ...
Itan is the term for the sum total of all Yoruba myths, songs, histories, and other cultural components. Itan is how the Yorùbá peoples of Africa call the sum total of all the myths, songs, histories and other cultural concepts which make up their religion and society. ...
The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the worlds oldest widely practised religions. ...
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Many ethnic Yoruba were enslaved and taken to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Trinidad and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century, after the Ọyọ empire collapsed and the region plunged into civil war), and carried their religious beliefs with them. These concepts were combined with preexisting African-based religions, Christianity, Native American mythology, and Kardecist Spiritism into various New World lineages: Trinidad (Spanish, Trinity) is the largest and most populous of the 23 islands which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago. ...
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Kardecist Spiritism or Kardecism is a spiritualistic doctrine created in the 19th century by Allan Kardec. ...
The popularly known Vodun religion of Haiti combines the religious beliefs of the many different African ethnic nationalities taken to the island with the structure and liturgy from the Fon-Ewe of present-day Benin and the Congo-Angolan culture area, but Yoruba-derived religious ideology and deities also play an important role. SanterÃa, also known as Lukumà or Regla de Ocha, is a set of related religious systems that fuse Catholic/Christian beliefs with traditional Yoruba beliefs. ...
Oyotunji African Village is a village located near Sheldon, Beaufort County, South Carolina that was founded by the late Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I in 1970, as part of a New World Yoruba initiative. ...
Ilê Axé Iya Nassô Oká - Terreiro da Casa Branca Candomblé is an Afro-American religion practiced chiefly in Brazil but also in adjacent countries. ...
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The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based religious tradition with primary roots among the Fon-Ewe peoples of West Africa, in the country now known as...
Yoruba deities include "Ọya" (wind goddess), "Ifa" (divination or fate), "Ẹlẹda" (destiny), "Ibeji" (twins), "Ọsanyin" (medicines and healing) and "Ọsun" (goddess of fertility, protector of children and mothers), Ṣango (God of thunder) In Yoruba mythology, Oya, is a warrior-goddess of wind, lightning, fertility, fire and magic. ...
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Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. ...
The orisha Ibeji is the protector of twins in Yoruba mythology. ...
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In Yoruba mythology, Oshun (or Oschun) is a spirit-goddess (Orisha) who reigns over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy. ...
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In Yorùbá mythology, Shango (Xango, Shango), or Changó in Latin America, is perhaps the most popular Orisha; he is a Sky Father, god of thunder and the ancestor of the Yoruba. ...
Human beings and other sentient creatures are also assumed to have their own individual deity of destiny, called "Ori (Yoruba)", who is venerated through a sculpture symbolically decorated with cowrie shells. Traditionally, dead parents and other ancestors are also believed to possess powers of protection over their descendants. This belief is expressed in worship and sacrifice on the grave or symbol of the ancestor, or as a community in the observance of the Egungun festival where the ancestors are represented as colorfully masquerade of costumed and masked men who represent the ancestral spirits. Dead parents and ancestors are also commonly venerated by pouring libations to the earth and the breaking of kolanuts in their honor at special occasions. Ori is a metaphysical concept important to Yoruba spirituality and mythology and Orisha worship. ...
A significant portion of the population either follows the traditional religion called Ifa or consult with the clergy of traditional diviners known as babalawo, or "Father of secrets." IFA may stand for: Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik [1] an der Universität Hannover [2] Institute of Field Archaeologists (UK) Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (International Radio Exhibition), the German consumer show which is held annually in Berlin, Germany. ...
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The majority of contemporary Yoruba are Christians and Muslims, with indigenous congregations having the largest memberships among Christians. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ...
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Yoruba cities The chief Yoruba cities are Ibadan, Lagos, Abeokuta (Abẹokuta), Akure (Akurẹ), Ilorin (Ilọrin), Ijebu Ode (Ijẹbu Ode), Ijebu-Igbo (Ijẹbu-Igbo), Ogbomoso (Ogbomọṣọ), Ondo, Ota (Ọta),Ìlá Ọràngún, Ado-Ekiti, Shagamu (Sagamu), Ikenne (Ikẹnnẹ), Osogbo (Osogbo), Ilesa (Ilesa), Oyo (Ọyọ), and Ife (Ilé-Ifẹ) Ibadan ( Èbá-Ọdà n), reputed to be the largest indigenous city in Africa, south of the Sahara, is the capital of Ọyá» State. ...
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria. ...
Location of Abeokuta in Nigeria Abeokuta is a city of southwest Nigeria, situated at , on the Ogun river, 64 miles north of Lagos by railway, or 81 miles by water. ...
Location of Akure in Nigeria Akure is a city in the southwestern region of Nigeria, and is the largest city and 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. ...
Ado Ekiti is a city in southwest Nigeria, in the state of Osun. ...
Sagamu is a city in southwestern Nigeria located in Ogun State near the Ibu River. ...
Location of Osogbo (Oshogbo) in Nigeria Osogbo or Oshogbo is a city in Nigeria. ...
Ilesa is a city located in west of Nigeria; it is also the name of a historic state (also known as Ijesa) centered around that city. ...
Oyo (Ọyọ in Yoruba orthography, pronounced ) is the name for a Yoruba city in modern-day Nigeria and also the loose empire which that city controlled in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...
Ifè (or Ilé-Ifẹ̀, as it is properly known) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria. ...
Traditionally the Yoruba organized themselves into networks of related villages, towns, and kingdoms, with most of them headed by an Ọba [King] or Baale [a nobleman or mayor]. Kingship is not determined by simple primogeniture, as in most monarchic systems of government. An electoral college of lineage heads is usually charged with selecting a member of one of the royal families, and the selection is usually confirmed by an Ifa divination request. The Ọbas live in palaces usually in the center of the town. Opposite to the king's palace is the Ọja Ọba, the king's market. These markets form an inherent part of Yoruba life. Traditionally the market traders are well organized, have various guilds, and an elected speaker.
Sports Yorubaland stadia include the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 capacity), Teslim Balogun stadium (35,000 capacity), Liberty Stadium, Ibadan (the first stadium in Africa) (40,000 capacity), Mọṣhood Kaṣhimawo Abiọla Stadium Abẹokuta (28,000 capacity), Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan (25,000 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. ...
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria. ...
The Liberty Stadium, formerly the New Stadium and White Rock, is a purpose-built sports and concert arena in the Landore area of Swansea, Wales. ...
Ibadan ( Èbá-Ọdà n), reputed to be the largest indigenous city in Africa, south of the Sahara, is the capital of ỌyỠState. ...
For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ...
Location of Abeokuta in Nigeria Abeokuta is a city of southwest Nigeria, situated at , on the Ogun river, 64 miles north of Lagos by railway, or 81 miles by water. ...
Traditional popular sports include wrestling, called gidigbo or ijakadi; foot races; swimming and canoe races in riverine areas, horse riding in the savannah regions where horses could be bred and raised; and various forms of combative performances, particularly during festivals and religious ceremonies. As with other fellow Nigerians and other West Africans, soccer is the most popular contemporary sport, followed by track and field games, boxing, and table tennis. Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
Yoruba people also play Ayò, their name for the popular board game called mancala elsewhere in Africa. A foldable, wooden Mancala board Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called sowing games or count and capture games, which comes from the general gameplay. ...
See also Yoruba (native name Yorùbá) is a dialect continuum of sub-Saharan Africa. ...
The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the worlds oldest widely practised religions. ...
Language links
External links - Egbe Isokan Yoruba - promotes the cultural, social, economic and political welfare of Yoruba. Member, Egbe Omo Yoruba, N.A.
- Radio Abeokuta - promoting the Yoruba culture of Togo, Republic of Benin, and Nigeria, West Africa
- National Association of Yoruba Descendants in the United States - mission is to cherish, uphold and project the honor and dignity of Yoruba culture, language and tradition worldwide
- Yoruba Information - includes brief summary of language, religion, history, and art
- World of the Yoruba - ritual and performance in Yorubaland
- Talking About "Tribe" - looks at Yoruba identity
- Yoruba Overview - includes information on colonialism, religion, and myth
- Yoruba: Exploring an African Culture - interactive exhibit about the art and culture of the Yoruba
- Oduduwa Heritage Organization- preserve and promote Yoruba culture among the Yorubas who live in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area. Member, Egbe Omo Yoruba, N.A.
- Egbe Omo Yoruba, Greater New York - Member, Egbe Omo Yoruba, N.A
- Oro ede Yorùbá - promotes the digital presentation of Yorùbá orthography through the creation and modification of Opensource software.
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