Yoruba Amaka beautiful people.

That's a good development

interesting

while modern yoruba people, especially those in lagos are adopting British English and phonetics as their language

low self-esteem of Nigerians stinks


irony of life

We Global yeah!!!some people will not sleep well tonight

totit:
I don't want to see any IBOmuslims or Christians on this beautiful thread

Is it only on tribalism that you must survive?... In fact don't stop exposing your foolishness

This article is very suspicious and untrue. Nigerians suffer from lack of knowledge and information.

1) This news is only carried by Nigerian media (known to make up false stories). This news isn't verifiable by any foreign media beyond the few Nigerian websites that carry it.

2) A quick look at the official list of Brazillian languages still does not list Yoruba as one of them. Why are Nigerian journalists so quick to create false articles?

3) There was no transatlantic slavery in the 13th century. Slavery started 2 centuries later - in the 15th century (around 1460) and with that Yorubas slaves did not participate in slavery until around 1640 and they began to appear in justifiable numbers towards the end of slavery in the 19th century, coinciding with the period slavery was abolished by the British and the ongoing Oyo-Dahomey war at that time. Yoruba slaves were mostly spoils of the ongoing war between Oyo vs Dahomey after slavery was abolished and were among the last group of tribes to arrive in the new world in substantial numbers, thus explains why their religious practice survived the most. Slavery was abolished worldwide by the British in 1833 and despite the abolishment, French, Dutch and Portuguese slave traders continued to illegally purchase slaves from Africa to ship to Latin America (Brazil, Cuba etc). The Oyo vs Dahomey wars were at its peak (between 1851 and 1864) and with the Dahomey warriors (mostly women) invading several Yoruba towns and capturing almost all of its inhabitants in entirety and selling them off to the last slave buyers on the slavery scene - the Portuguese and French, Yoruba slaves continued to be shipped in substantial numbers to Brazil and Cuba especially much until the 1860s. An entire Yoruba village would be wiped out and most of the natives transported to the new world together with their chief priest, their mini gods etc. For example, the case of Ketu in Benin Republic or the village of Ajayi Crowther which was completely emptied by invading Dahomey slave raiders and Ajayi exported into slavery. The British soon got wind of this illegal slavery taking place by the French and Portuguese and made efforts to intercept slave ships leaving the shores of Africa for Latin America. The British successfully intercepted a few slave ships from Bight of Benin (containing Yoruba slaves) and the captives were freed and dumped in Freetown, Sierra Leone (the Saros, think of Tiwa Savage, Desmond Elliott, Ajayi Crowther etc). These group of Yoruba slaves never made it out of the shores of Africa. Because they were sold after slavery had been abolished, their memories of home was still strong and a good number of Yoruba slaves found their way back to Lagos (the Agudas/Brazilian territory in Lagos, the Saros).

4) Slave conditions after slavery had been abolished had improved greatly and the arriving Yoruba slaves found themselves in conditions more like servants instead of slaves - they had much greater freedom to keep their names, speak their language, practice their religion and faced much less acculturation compared to slaves who arrived at the peak of slavery (1750 to 1820) who had their names, language and culture forcefully stripped from them and forced to work under terrible conditions. Infact up until early 1900s, there were still some Nago (Yoruba) native speakers in Brazil and the question we should be asking is, why didn't Yoruba language survive in Latin America as a living language (by living it is used regularly at home, at school, at the market place etc) given the favorable conditions they found themselves in when they arrived Brazil and Cuba?

5) The survival of Yoruba religious practices was a matter of favorable times and conditions. Yoruba slaves in Latin America experienced the least cultural stripping and acculturation compared to slaves that arrived in the previous centuries.

6) Ifa religion is a Nigerian cultural heritage in Latin America and has become a religion to its adherents (afro descendants who wish to reconnect with their African heritage) who are not necessarily Yoruba by genetic ancestry but participate in the religion. Congolese slaves and Angolan slaves and even Igbo/Efik/Ibibio slaves were shipped to Brazil and Cuba and it would be wrong to assume all Ifa adherents to be Yoruba because they practice the religion. A good number of them may just be of Congolese or Angolan ancestry who practice Ifa. Just as it would be wrong to call Igbo Catholics in Nigeria Romans because they practice Roman Catholicism that originated in Rome.
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7) Up until the 2000s it was erroneously believed that the Yorubas slaves were the most sold owing to the survival of Ifa religion in Brazil and Cuba, however slave census and ship records show that no more than 460,000 Yoruba slaves actually left the Bight of Benin. Subtracting the substantial number made it back to Lagos (Agudas) and those that were rerouted to Sierra Leone (Saros) in Africa, thus the final number settling in Latin America and contributing to the gene pool of afro-descended blacks in Latin America and North America would be around 300,000 to 350,000.

8.) Ifa religion is no where close to being the 2nd largest in the world. A terrible joke played by the author.

9) The title of this article seems like a wish to come true by the author (who is Yoruba) of it which is far from realizable because the use of Yoruba in Brazil is more like a liturgical language used only during Ifa service just as Latin is often used by the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria where all Catholics barely understand nor speak it after church service. Most Ifa adherents memorize the words/lyrics and sing it from heart. Yoruba language is extinct in Brazil (i.e it has no native speakers who speak it from birth) and thus is far far from being recognized in Brazil.

lol

lol.. next joke pls...

NCAN. over to u

maberry:
Nairaland Inter-tribal war loading...

lol!

mrjaydee:


Sharrap.. mugun

crap

They'll regret it....

Good one

Beautiful....
Thousands of miles away from Home ... they make Yoruba official language...
I wonder why many people back home are trying not to let their kids understand the language..
Same as my Igbo brothers.....
Let's not be ashamed of our language...
Now our kids names are.
Ronaldo.
Gerrard.
Neymar and all sort.

Even plant and Animal have systematic method of naming that tells a certain history of the plant just by the name (Nomenclature)
Anybody bearing Ifakayode already tells you He's a Yoruba and a Ifa worshipper.
Same as when you hear Manihot Reptans ...without much story you already know it's a specie of Cassava.

E mi o je fi owo Osi juwele Baba mi.
Omo Ibadan,ajegbin je ikaraunn.

yoruba

They'll regret it....

Nice one

Let me quickly go and study Yoruba and ifa

Nice.....

Lmao this is laughable. All I see is wole Soyinka, a woman on bikini and one white guy. Are they the Brazilians?

Nn