Barbilius:
Lmao. We're talk say people beg them for votes during election, yet the candidate they supported(Atiku) still lost ;DSo much for their votes. I remember that anambra guy was always posting and boasting of how they had collected more pvcs in their regions than SW bla bla bla, upon all, their candidate still lost, lmao. Bunch of noise makers.

Obamaofusa:


Stop the obscene words and face reality. Most black Americans/African Americans are of Yoruba root.


Read this:

The Wikipedia has genuine references to cure your ignorance .


Recent surveys of African Americans using a genetic testing service have found varied ancestries which show different tendencies by region and sex of ancestors. These studies found that on average, African Americans have 73.2-82.1% West African, 16.7%-24% European, and 0.8–1.2% Native Americangenetic ancestry, with large variation between individuals

Correspondingly, Montinaro et al. (2014) observed that around 50% of the overall ancestry of African Americans traces back to the Niger-Congo-speaking Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin, reflecting the centrality of this West African region in the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Benin here means dahomey or republic of Benin

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans

pazienza:


Which Yorubas led the revolution in Brazil?

Don't get it twisted.

Congo, Angola groups are the majority in Brazil and they came earlier at a time "deAfricanization" was common in Americas. So they lost they cultures and had to embrace the Yoruba culture of Yoruba slaves who were late comers at a point the deAfricanization policy had been relaxed.

That you see a black slave in Brazil bearing Yoruba name or practicing Yoruba culture, does not mean they were originally Yorubas.

pazienza:


Wikipedia is not a good source in delicate information like this.

Let's wait for Bigfrancis21 to arrive with better details.

pazienza:


Swallow this and keep quiet.
Real numbers. Not Ewedu statistics from Yemi Oluwale.
https://www.nairaland.com/5875972/1952-nigeria-ethnicity-census-result

pazienza:


I will wait for Bigfrancis21 to arrive.
That's his expertise

I trust him on that aspect.

pazienza:


And how many of them were Yorubas?
See what I found from Bigfrancis21 posts.

Justiceleague1:


And you are proud to say this while calling others OSU,how perfect!!!

Iamgrey5:
You trust him to Bring screen shots that is not verifiable

Michael004:
No one calls you osu. It is what you call yourself we are calling you. Ok

DuwaRepublic:
The below shows the statistics of the number of slaves that were taken from the bight of Benin (majorly Yorubas) 1,488,000, and bight of Biafra (majorly Igbos) 1,058,000 during the Atlantic slave trade.

Michael004:
Off point. Stop acting like agbaya.You get pikin na haba.What are they saying, what are you saying. Why did your election not carry Atiku in. Abi buhari beg you. Even Abiola won despite telling you to go to hell.

MetaPhysical:


Hausa is not indigeneous in cameroon or chad or sudan or eritrea or saudi or ghana, not even in senegal.

Most of places you listed are settler communities of hausa traders.

If we were talking of settler communities i would list Yoruba all way to Mauritania and Mali.

Indigeneous only....
Hausa - Nigeria, Niger, Benin.

kolaaderin:
The source smells shit. Igbo is only found in Nigeria Yoruba extend from southwest Nigeria through Benin and some part of Togo. This your source smell shits

Here Is a better source and educate yourself

https://travelnoire.com/amp/here-are-the-most-popular-tribes-in-africa

kolaaderin:
The source smells shit. Igbo is only found in Nigeria Yoruba extend from southwest Nigeria through Benin and some part of Togo. This your source smell shits

Here Is a better source and educate yourself

https://travelnoire.com/amp/here-are-the-most-popular-tribes-in-africa

Sammy07:


Mention the country where there are no Yorubas.

Mention the country where Igbos are indigenous too

Upper onisha news

Justiceleague1:


He won and became what?
Is it not same way Awo was the best president Nigeria never had?!?

I wonder the size of your br....

With what do you do your thinking?!

bigfrancis21:


Equatorial Guinea. The language is officially recognized there.

In the spirit of Brazil and Cuba Yoruba-descended slaves, plenty Igbo descendants in Jamaica, Haiti, United States, Guyana, Belize etc.

DuwaRepublic:
The below shows the statistics of the number of slaves that were taken from the bight of Benin (majorly Yorubas) 1,488,000, and bight of Biafra (majorly Igbos) 1,058,000 during the Atlantic slave trade.

Michael004:
Who recognizes igbo language in equatorial Guinea?

bigfrancis21:


Equatorial Guinea. The language is officially recognized there.

In the spirit of Brazil and Cuba Yoruba-descended slaves, plenty Igbo descendants in Jamaica, Haiti, United States, Guyana, Belize etc.

Juliusmalema:


Op is fantastically correct except Ijaw...

Ijaw is not even up to 3.7 million.

The inflation is out of bound. That position is for TIV and kanuri.

Ibrahimmrfish:

Hausa have been living in Ghana and Sudan since 1820s and are are currently citizens of both countries, there are about 2 million Hausas in Sudan. As for Saudi 80% of black Saudi are descended of Hausa,who were there since the time of Ottoman empire and most still speak Hausa fluently. As for Cameron,northern part of Cameron use to be a province under sokoto caliphate, i believe you are familiar with Adamawa emirate, which a huge part in now in Cameron so yes we have Hausa speakers in Cameron.Northern part of Burkina Faso was also under Sokoto.Eritrea Hausa community is as a result of trans-sahara trade,Hausa people have been there for centuries and like the community in Saudi,managed to keep their language and culture alive. So before you disprove anything, make sure you at list back your argument with facts.

MetaPhysical:
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Official language in Equitorial Guinea is French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Igbo is listed as others. Igbo language got to EG because of refugee airlift during Biafra.

bigfrancis21:


There is this false assumption about Yoruba slaves being the majority sold at the Bight of Benin. There were way more tribes being sold at the Bight of Benin (Yoruba, Fon, Ewe, etc) vs the Bight of Biafra (Igbo, Ibibio/Efik mostly). From the start of the slave trade up until the late 1700s/early 1800s, Yoruba slaves were actually a minority/sold in fewer numbers compared to other tribes from the Bight of Benin. Pazienza already showed you some numbers breaking down Bight of Benin ethnicities sold and you would confirm that Yoruba slave numbers were insignificant (2% - 10%) in the Bight of Benin slave trade, even dropping to as low as 2% in 1710, from 1640 to 1740 then we begin to see slight increases from 16% in the 1750s to 53% in 1820s, to as high as 85% in the 1830s (once again during the period of Oyo-Dahomean wars) and dropping to 79% between 1840s and 1860s.

The Aja peoples overwhelmingly dominated the Bight of Benin slave trade from as high as 97% in the 1680s up until 1800s (49%) and were at par with Yoruba slaves at 36% in the 1810s.

Be aware that the only period Yoruba slaves dominated the Bight of Benin slave trade is between 1820 to 1860 (62.5% average, last image attached) during the fall of the Oyo empire and the Oyo-Dahomean wars.

Realistic slave figure exports from SW Nigeria: 437,700
Eastern Nigeria (Ibibio, Igbo): 1.4m.

bigfrancis21:


There's a difference between Official and Regional languages. French, Spanish and Portuguese ARE THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES of EG, while Igbo is recognized as a regional language (the same status as other indigenous/native languages of EG ie Fang, Bubi etc). No other native language in EG is officially recognized. All native languages (including Igbo) are regionally recognized based on their area of dominance.

MetaPhysical:


Yoruba did not only conquer states in West Africa and took slaves, even in diaspora we conquered other Africans and imposed our culture and thoughts and religion as the dominant way of life for the slaves. Do you deny this?

Igbo was not dominant in Jamaica or Haiti. You had zero influence anywhere as a slave. There are written records and facts on this not just by historians but even descendants of plantation owners who submitted records left to them in family heirloom.

pazienza:


https://www.barbadospocketguide.com/our-island-barbados/about-barbados/bim-or-bimshire.html

MetaPhysical:


Yoruba did not only conquer states in West Africa and took slaves, even in diaspora we conquered other Africans and imposed our culture and thoughts and religion as the dominant way of life for the slaves. Do you deny this?

Igbo was not dominant in Jamaica or Haiti. You had zero influence anywhere as a slave. There are written records and facts on this not just by historians but even descendants of plantation owners who submitted records left to them in family heirloom.

MetaPhysical:


You left that fact out in your original post. If i had not responded your clarity in this post would have been left unrevealed....and feed misinformation, as you intended in that original post that Igbo is an official language.

pazienza:


There are no indigenous Yorubas in Togo.
The Yorubas in Benin wouldn't have made up the deficit Yorubas had against Igbos in that census in 1952.