Most Popular Culture Worldwide. . . .Yoruba, Igbo Or Hausa?

I now know that you are not well, osisi, I would have let it slide if you didnt mention Ekiti.

How long have you lived in the states? I've been here for 17 years and I'll let you know, the Nigerians that claim American-ship are usually NOT Yoruba. The few that do claim that they are from Lagos. Bloody LIARS. I don't even claim Lagos and I was born there. Even Wes said that the Igbos don't rep themselves enough. They are always ready to give out their English names, even in the damn Nolly movies. They hardly speak their language, maybe once or twice you might get some pidgin, give me a break.
My father spent most of his life in Lagos and he'll always tell you he's a Ekiti bush man for life. My mother was born and bred in lagos, barely even been to her town in Ekiti and both of them are members of the biggest Ekiti group in The United States and most of the members were barely raised there in their ekiti hometown.

I don't know why you constantly feel the need to turn everything into some tribal fight. It's quite depressing. We are talking about CULTURE. Which tribe's culture is popular world wide. If you truly believe it's Igbo even though it obviously isnt then give us proof and stop going off the tangent on the amount of Igbos that are in a certain place in the world. That is not what the topic is about, if it were then Igbo definitely would be the answer.

You know have never agreed with anything u have ever said on this site before, but on this one oh I support u 100%.

the incident when i cursed that girl out for using HATE

I'm lost, Omo 

that link isnt working for me, troll

i couldn't comprehend most of it but i got some:

baba ** dara obala/obatala ese (good father thank you)
baba fun mi laye (father give me life)
emi mo kere larin wo (i am small in their midst)


most of these people are descendants of slaves from yorubaland centuries ago.
the yoruba they speak is a variety of the ancient yoruba of centuries ago.  and of course they can't retain all the language for that number of years.

I watched a portuguese  movie (it was from the 70's or 80's i think) once and most likely wouldn't be able to figure what they were saying if not for the subtitles. they pronounce so many words differently
it was about slaves and they had this old priest like man who taught the kids yoruba words, like a language teacher sort of. so the language wouldn't be lost. I don't remember the title of the movie but i'll love to get it
really ancient like yoruba words like omi, iye, obatala, ogun etc but they have their own language that they speak generally -portuguese.
only the priests use yoruba or when they're doing naming ceremonies and cultural stuff etc. portuguese is what they speak most of the time and i don't know if some yoruba words might be incorporated.

cool link.

wesleyana
Interesting , i have heard about these similarities but never really looked into it. Do you guys have any more links?

i don't think it matters, it is clear like you said that Yoruba culture has influenced other people across the world, even if it is about juju and the likes.  It is still an influence and won't change the fact that it is popular. It is not all there is to the rich Yoruba culture but it is still popular. Anywhere i go anytime i travel, as soon as i say i am Nigerian thet first thing they ask is Yoruba?

the word "voodoo" is a western corruption of the word "vodun" (shame on me, i think i forgot the right spelling). It means God or Spirit.

voodoo, african savages, dark africa. words like these are racist words to me.
voodoo is now known to be synonymous with pinned dolls for evil purposes (a western fabrication i believe)

the slaves were taken away from Africa before christianity was introduced. They of course kept the native culture in it's pure form.
to them, Obatala, ogun, sango is a positive thing. to us that the west have told us all of our things are bad, it is negative to us.

but for some reason, there are so many yoruba people with "ogun" or "ifa" in their names. "ogunleke' "ogunsola" "ifayemi" e.t.c it's our culture. your name carries it, so what's so negative about it?

i didn't know that about the word voodoo. You a bag of info Wesleyana i think i'll stick around afterall 

Ah thankGod for Black history month, wish we didnt have to have all that though( you know what i mean?) anyways i found out 3things from your posts today , i wont tell you the others,

Wes, are you minding osisi?

Again she likes to pretend like there was nothing going on in Nigeria before the European religion came along.

wow, who shot them and why?

It seems the only thing you have about Yoruba culture being popular is the religions. Yorubas have more than 800 deities, what do you expect? 

Anything else popular about Yoruba culture?

Tons--Yoruba music is one of the ancestral sources for popular music of Brazil. The most well-known are the afoxes, which are Ijesha rhythms that have been adapted for Carnival drumming. They are different from the religious musical genres and also different from samba, which is derived from Angolan culture. Also in Brazil, they cook and eat akara (they call it acaraje there) just as in Nigeria and Benin Republic, and some people still buy 'pano da costa' (aso oke etc. ) from West Africa, a trade that survived slavery and has been going on contiunously since.

In Brazil, they still call long white shirts and trousers 'abada' (corrupted 'agbada') in memory of the 1835 Yoruba rebellion in Bahia, which was the biggest in the country's history.

In Cuba, rumba/salsa/mambo etc. are a mixture of Congolese, Yoruba, and Efik/Ibibio and Igbo music with European instruments etc. They also make Yoruba food there too, including amala (although it's somewhat different from Naija amala, from what I've heard). In Trinidad also, the popular music and food has distinct Yoruba features, and there were whole communities of Trinidadian Yoruba speakers into the 1970s, although their numbers are dying down now.

Closer to home, someone already mentioned that Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade are the most widely recognized Nigerian musicians.

Many Sierra Leoneans still go by Yoruba names today, even amongst Temne and Mende people who are not directly of Yoruba ancestry. You'll still hear of lots of people called Kola, Sade etc. (along with Nnamdis and Chidis, to be fair), but the Yoruba influence is the most recognizable in their culture. Lots of other aspects of Yoruba culture, including naming ceremonies, hunting/men's societies, savings and traditional banking institutions (esusu or susu) and so on are part of Sierra Leonean culture.

Yoruba religion gets the most attention because it's one of the few African-inspired religions that can be considered a 'world' religion, but it's not the only aspect of Yoruba culture that's world-recognized. It's more remarkable because Yorubas were not as numerous in the slave trade as other people--in fact, their numbers were comparable to the numbers of Igbos and Wolofs from Senegal among the enslaved population. The Congolese and Angolans were about 40% of the people enslaved in Africa and their cultures are probably the most dominant in the Americas.

Lest I forget, the image of Nigeria outside of its shores is primarily Igbo influenced. All the Nollywood movies people all over get the watch from West Africa to the West Indies are all primarily Igbo influenced. We know the power of movies, right?


Many Ghanaians I met here go by Efik names like Essien and Edem, proves nothing. Yorubas do not have a monopoly on child naming, it's a characteristic of many cultures. Neither to do they have a monopoly of hunting/men's socities.

Fela's was a Yoruba man, dumbass and alot of his songs were sung in Yoruba

and how many people in the world truly gives a shit about Nollywood other than maybe a few African countries and some Carribean people? since when is speaking in fake wannabe Queen's English and acting like a "gangsta" an Igbo influence?
You obviously have no idea the amount of people esp white people that own Fela and KSA records. I remember even translating the songs for my roommates in Freshman year.

Who's claiming to have monopoly on anything? It just so happens that lot of Yoruba cultures are in various parts of the world, we didnt make it happen. Blame the damn slave trade.

You people are so damn blind with rabid tribalism that you can't even answer a simple thread question without malice. It's so pathetic. No one is saying that because Yoruba culture is more popular worldwide that it means we are the "better tribe", contray to what you think, that is not the point of this thread. We've given various examples and your bruised prides can't just accept that without thinking that it's still some sorta competition.

You people make me sick.