Igarra, Ososo, and Okpe are Yoruba-speaking communities in Edo State. Their affinity to Ondo State is not only linguistic but also cultural. Kwara is almost entirely Yoruba despite the Emirate of ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has reiterated his commitment to protecting the Yoruba race from practices he described as infiltrations, such as deity worship by kings, land ...

The leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has urged President Bola Tinubu to facilitate a conversation with the movement towards negotiating peaceful separation of ...

One of the most breathtaking moments in a Yoruba wedding is the bride’s entrance. They represent more than the union of two people, they are a coming together of families. Every detail in the ceremony ...

The groups made the call during the Western Nigeria Security Summit, held at Oranmiyan Hall in Ikeja, Lagos State, where stakeholders, security experts, and traditional leaders gathered to address the ...

In just three short years, Nigerian street-pop savant Asake has become a giant in African music, meeting Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy in a place it took them three times that span to reach. What’s ...

Translated as “do not speak the English language and other Western languages”, the online Yoruba game show Masọyinbo has a clear objective: to encourage the purity of Yoruba, a West African language ...

Akinwumi Ogundiran received funding from Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Dumbarton Oaks (Garden and Landscape Studies). They sponsored ...

Akintoye added that an activist, Sunday Adeyemo, more commonly called Sunday Igboho is not committing any crime under Nigerian law or the international community for leading a self-determination ...

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THOSE who have been accustomed to depend upon the classical work of Col. Ellis on the Yoruba people may be surprised at Mr. Dennett's speculations. Ellis, a careful, competent writer, tells us that ...

That was how we, kids in the Lafiaji area of Lagos Island, hollered and learned, by rote, the Yoruba alphabets — shouting at vivid pictures of humans bearing these alphabets on their chest, and ...