2prexios:
1. When was Ile Ife founded?

Ife was founded at year zero, day one, Yoruba ancestors era. To convert to Greco-Roman time, one needs to rely on Ife archeological specimen, which means we have to take the oldest sample of such specimen and determine its half life or carbon date. Whatever that is can be put in either BCE or AD, which is our (modern history) chronological time frame.

2. What are stand-in for Yoruba oral records?

There are several stand-in for Yoruba oral records that have survive to our time, if what you mean are oral record system of the Yorubas. the list at my disposal includes and not limited to the following


1. Oriki,

2. Ayajo,

3. Ogede,

4. Ofo,

5. Ijala,

6. Aroko,

7. Oro- Ile,

8. Ifa oracular dicta.

The above are oral historical instruments that the Yoruba ancestors devised to preserve their history and enable the same permeate their progeny's lifestyle beliefs and and culture till it get to our age in modern times.

3. What is sugbo Eredo?

The first record of Sugbo Eredo came from the colonial periods, as early as 1910 thereabout. It was said to have been the work of Sugbo, an ancient woman claimed to be barren and was said to have erected the site for her remembrance. You can read more about Sugbo Eredo at Wikipedia as much as recent archeological findings around the monument.

4. Could the people who developed these be said to be less evolved?

These are unique achievements that has been accomplished by the Yoruba ancestors, but wonders of monumental proportion litters every culture, hence the old world compiled her seven wonders of the world. Have we found or credited the builders of Stonehenge? how about the sphinx and the hanging garden of babylon and the wall of china?

If the above make us more evolve than others, then we are people before our time, and if we are hooked to the past glory and praise the ancestors, what will the ancestors praise about us, that we don't care to put up a new world wonder may mean we are retrogressing, on backward-spiral.

kingston277:
It was actually founded in 300BCE. Nice try though.
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=008915


Ok.


A beauty isn't it.


I never said anything about evolution let alone who is more evolved than who. That and the biological race notion as we see it today is a myth scientists have debunked several times over. Please, it's time to focus on ways to develop Nigeria, not silly eugenics practices.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

Omexonomy: The study of the past will make us know the answer to the present and able to determine the future.

SLIDEwaxie: when u finish deluding urself, call me at the sexuality section of nairaland.

See, if u like, study the past, the present will once remain a future. And the funniest thing abt the future is: it's evolving, changing, unpredictable....

So, u can't even determine the present cos the present we are currently in was once a mysterious future, and as u're reading this, the next second of time is also a future u can never determine.

Wen we make the right plans and they go through, it was because they were suppose to go through... if they don't, they were never supposed to be.

We can only try, prediction remains a mystery...the right prediction is pure luck!!!!

Take it or leave it

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

fattbabakay: Ile-Ife in Nigeria??

Akshow: No, the one in Brazil.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

fattbabakay: Ile-Ife in Nigeria??

amnestylaw1:
No, the one in Morocco.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

OkikiOluwa1:
If not that you are sick & seriously in need of blood transfusion. You won't typed like an epileptic patient!
Last Bullet
You should drink this thick zobo...

Igboland was founded by Moremi's 1st child Arochukwu.
Moremi, an Ife royal went to Igboland & married Amadioha (now the god of thunder & lightning). They also gave birth to other children like Anyanwu, Ala. Ala later became the goddess of fertility.
One day, Arochukwu impregnated Ala, she gave birth to triplets. These children became the ancestors of all Ibo people including Owerri, Enugu, Ebonyi, Mbaise.
The rest is history..

igbodefender: Ife was founded by Igbos aboriginal to that area. Then the Yorubas took over, via Oduduwa and Queen Moremi. If the Igbo King of Ife hadn't fallen for Moremi, the secret of his warriors would not have been known to the Yorubas. Well, the rest is history.

StevenJay01:

Pls dont make shit for pant. Haba wetin una dey smoke for nairaland. I dont laff tire sote I mess and shit come out