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Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by macof(m): 7:43pm On May 11, 2015
themanderon:

Every individual should be judged not by his tribe, colour, race ,money, beauty or ugliness, but by the content of his character, there are good yorubas as well as igbos, there are also the bad ones amongst them, this has been how it has been from the beginning and so shall it be even in a thousand years and there is nothing any of you can do about it. You can either live with it or go kiss the donkey's DooDah cool.
Oto oro. . True talk

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Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by Adyrin(m): 5:02pm On May 19, 2015
Are you ok?
I spoke Idoma ok and it doesn't mean what you typed!
If you don't kno......ask and st0p being a dumbass!
9cbaby:
how can you say you hate d hand work of God, means you hate God.Please correct yourself
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by Adyrin(m): 9:34am On May 20, 2015
Abole ki?
Otenestbestyaho:
oyi abole? Oyi doma nn weya.
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by hakeem4(m): 10:05pm On May 20, 2015
sukkot:
Ikorodu
I'm also from ikd
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by tpiadotcom: 6:18am On Jun 19, 2015
ggrin:
The Yoruba people are one of the ethnic groups of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West Africa. The Yorubas are a distinctive people who are bound together by a common language with various different dialects. They also share a rich history and culture.
Here are 7 facts about the Traditional Yoruba Culture:

1. According to Yoruba mythology, all Yoruba people are descendants of Odua or Oduduwa. And today, there are over fifty individuals who claim kinship as descendants of Odua/Oduduwa.

2. According to encyclopedia.com, the Yoruba traditional marriage entails six steps:
-The seeking of a potential spouse (Igba ifojusode);
-Approval from the oracle-divinity (Ifa f’ore);
-Release of the young woman’s voice (Isihun);
-Requesting for the young woman’s hand in marriage from her family (Itoro);
-Creation of the marital bond (Idana); and
-Transferring the wife to the husband’s lineage (Igbeyawo).

3. The language of the Yorubas, known as Yoruba, belongs to the Congo-Kordofanian language family. Yoruba as a language has many dialects, but most of its speakers are able to understand each other.

4. The Yoruba constitute over 35 million people in total with majority of this population from Nigeria. The Yorubas make up 21% of the Nigerian population.

5. According to the CIA World Fact book, the Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.

6. Traditional childbirth in Yorubaland does not support anyone younger than the mother to be present at the birth.

7. When a child is born in a traditional Yoruba society, the infant is taken to the backyard with the umbilical cord bound tightly with thread before it is cut. The placenta is then buried in the backyard. The child is bathed with a loofah sponge and rubbed with palm oil on the placenta burial spot.  Then the child is held by the feet and given three shakes to make him/her strong and brave. A naming ceremony is held after 8 days.


Source
www.connectnigeria.com/articles/2015/02/12/seven-interesting-facts-about-the-ancient-yoruba-culture/


sounds like you lifted this wholesale from google.

where did you place Christianity or Islam in this your write up?
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by tpiadotcom: 6:23am On Jun 19, 2015
TheEqualizer:
Half of the content and the title bear no semblance.

Interesting but it lacks substance.

cheesy


not really interesting, just copy and paste.

the op sounds like someone who is looking for a yoruba husband or baby daddy.


I wonder why folks here ignore the myriads of males looking for non yoruba wives and baby mamas, such as shym___x, the site owner and so many more, but will instead start chasing after the wind.

i guess they are suckers for punishment- it gives them a buzz.
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by 9cbaby(f): 8:33am On Aug 12, 2015
Adyrin:
Are you ok?
I spoke Idoma ok and it doesn't mean what you typed!
If you don't kno......ask and st0p being a dumbass!
take it easy guy,not here to fight.

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Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by Emilokoiyawon: 4:00pm On Aug 12, 2015
grin cool Eni ti a fe la mo a mo eni to fe ni. Awon to n ba gba tiwa a sha won legba. E yi omo odua ko si nko to shay yi a shakitibobo cool grin

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Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by tpiander: 5:02pm On Aug 31, 2015
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by blissmandate(m): 11:29pm On May 06, 2020
[b]Na just population Yoruba get...... They are so tribalistic and obviously like to think of themselves as sophisticated but then they share that opinion among themselves only. For now they can stand firm with their Northern masters but when push comes to shove they will discover they're standing alone. The Yoruba's should be grateful to Fayose for standing his ground and not allowing them all to be sold to slavery entirely.

The 3 top public figures representing Yorubas---- Obasanjo, Tinubu and Oba Akiolu... While Tinubu is corruption personified and Oba Akiolu has a leaking mouth... Obasanjo is corrupt, has a leaking mouth and has destroyed his own family with his incestuous nature. How can a man sleep with his Son's wife

Anyway i repeat again, the only thing the Yorubas have over any region from the south is population, e nor pass like that. Their hatred for other tribes apart from their Northern masters is appalling to say the least.

[/b]


you are truly a bastard
Re: Seven Interesting Facts About The Ancient Yoruba Culture by omonnakoda: 12:32pm On May 09, 2020
ggrin:
The Yoruba people are one of the ethnic groups of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West Africa. The Yorubas are a distinctive people who are bound together by a common language with various different dialects. They also share a rich history and culture.
Here are 7 facts about the Traditional Yoruba Culture:

1. According to Yoruba mythology, all Yoruba people are descendants of Odua or Oduduwa. And today, there are over fifty individuals who claim kinship as descendants of Odua/Oduduwa.

2. According to encyclopedia.com, the Yoruba traditional marriage entails six steps:
-The seeking of a potential spouse (Igba ifojusode);
-Approval from the oracle-divinity (Ifa f’ore);
-Release of the young woman’s voice (Isihun);
-Requesting for the young woman’s hand in marriage from her family (Itoro);
-Creation of the marital bond (Idana); and
-Transferring the wife to the husband’s lineage (Igbeyawo).

3. The language of the Yorubas, known as Yoruba, belongs to the Congo-Kordofanian language family. Yoruba as a language has many dialects, but most of its speakers are able to understand each other.

4. The Yoruba constitute over 35 million people in total with majority of this population from Nigeria. The Yorubas make up 21% of the Nigerian population.

5. According to the CIA World Fact book, the Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.

6. Traditional childbirth in Yorubaland does not support anyone younger than the mother to be present at the birth.

7. When a child is born in a traditional Yoruba society, the infant is taken to the backyard with the umbilical cord bound tightly with thread before it is cut. The placenta is then buried in the backyard. The child is bathed with a loofah sponge and rubbed with palm oil on the placenta burial spot.  Then the child is held by the feet and given three shakes to make him/her strong and brave. A naming ceremony is held after 8 days.


Source
www.connectnigeria.com/articles/2015/02/12/seven-interesting-facts-about-the-ancient-yoruba-culture/

All Yoruba are not descendants of Oduduwa.
They cannot be.
Oduduwa was a King and his descendants are kings or Obas
Ordinary people are not descendants of Oduduwa


Oduduwa ARRIVED in Ile Ife about 1000 years ago. He met people there. He met a language there. He met IFA there.
All those things predate the arrival of Oduduwa.

Many groups have traditionally traced their origins to Ile Ife but that predates the arrival of Oduduwa.

MOST People never identified themselves as Yoruba until Nigeria

Those that were known as Yoruba were the Oyo and close groups

Ekiti was a nation on its own, ditto Egba ,Ijebu etc.
In my lifetime I have witnessed elderly persons say things like
"Wa ba mi lo ra ....l'owo baba Yoruba yen" referring to an ara oke person and the speakers gave been Egba or Ijebu. With no consciousness of themselves as Yoruba and referred to what they spoke as Anago or Ede. Now "ede" is understood as Language generally but originally it referred to obscure or Northern dialects

To understand this fully travel to Benin republic where the people the people identify themselves as Anago and not Yoruba.

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