Dude stop wasting valuable time in displaying your hate against Yoruba. There has been Yoruba thousands of years before you were born, Yoruba sons and daughters are doing spectacularly well everywhere in the world today, Yoruba is setting pace for other tribes to follow in Nigeria, and there will be Yoruba thousands of years after you have gone.

Channel your energy towards something that will benefit you and people around you.

To answer your question, there are architectural structures of ancient Yoruba empires and cities such as Ile Ife, Ijebu and Oyo Ile

afonjaheadhunt:
I would have taken you seriously if you did not edit my post which you quoted, but going through the links you provided it appears you dint even read it before trying to use it to disprove my claims cause your links simply corroborate my claims and assertions maybe i should just use it as my source since you need source to something that is common knowledge.

When you put my initial quote I will take you serious.

Why should I put your initial quote that is like 10 pages long? That is very unnecessary. Just show how my links corroborates your fabrications that Old oyo empire was a proxy to Dahomey and Benin.
You see, I like pre-colonial African history, and I take pride in finding out that there were kingdoms, Empires and Cities in sub-sahara Africa before the white came to plunder it.
But one of the most difficult thing for historians about sub saharan empires is lack of written records. However, the existence of the empires can be substantiated by oral traditions, archeological evidences, attestation by someone from another empire or region and existing culture and tradition of the old empire

Now to your terrible fabrications.
When it comes to oral tradition about Old oyo empire, not only there are consistency in the narrative of Old oyo empire descendants, there are hundreds of books and first hand accounts out there written by the first set of westerners to contact the indigenous people of Oyo (I can provide copies if you want).

When it comes to archeological evidences, there are tonnes of evidences that showed that Oyo was a very influential empire in pre-colonial 15th to 19th century west africa. Another important evidence was the discovery of art works that suggest the region must have been a big settlement of people in a kingdom or empire. Don't let us forget the account of different westerners that saw Oyo army and Calvary (I believe you know what calvaries are, and how it depict civilization).
https://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/africanlegacy/old_oyo.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25130772?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Find attached below some of the ruins and archeological findings of old Oyo empire

Attestation by someone from another empire: Ahmed baba of Songhai empire(I'm sure you don't even know who that is) in his book in the 16th century wrote about Old oyo empire. If Old oyo wasn't an empire, I doubt how Ahmed baba living thousands of miles away could know of the place.

Culture and tradition: up till date, the culture and tradition of Old oyo is being practised by the descendants of the empire. So much so that, the culture was carried across the atlantic and practised in over 7 countries in the new world including Cuba, Brazil, Jamaica, Colombia, USA etc. This single fact defected your lie and insultive fabrication because if Oyo was a proxy to either Dahomey or Benin, the tradition and culture of both places will be infused in the lifes of descendants of Oyo and not the other way round.

Like I said earlier, your post is made up of lies and fabrication filled with hatred you have for Yoruba. It is based on absolute no evidence or source. If I have the time and know your tribe, I can write something 100 times more terrible things.

http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h28af3-4.htm

http://www.afropedea.org/oyo-empire

http://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=190927143

https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/ipi/yoruba.htm

afonjaheadhunt:
I know you have sleepless nights over Yoruba rich history and culture.

Like you challenged I will provide you with sources from westerners

First source: Britannica encyclopedia

Oyo empire, Yoruba state north of Lagos, in present-day southwestern Nigeria, that dominated, during its apogee (1650–1750), most of the states between the Volta River in the west and the Niger River in the east. It was the most important and authoritative of all the early Yoruba principalities

https://www.britannica.com/place/Oyo-empire

Second source: Frobenius Institute Germany


http://www.frobenius-institut.de/sammlungen-und-archive/ethnographisches-bildarchiv/42-das-institut/119-nigeria-100-years-ago


Third Source: Reasearch in African Literatures, African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center
Author: Judith Gleason


The two greatest warriors in the time of Shango was Timi Olofa Ina and Gbonka Ebiri. By this time, Oyo have emerged to be the administrative capital of the Oduduwa dynasty. He had the priest he put in charge of Ife ( Son of Owuoni, the woman that should have been used for a sacrifice but spared because she was with child) to oversee the affairs of the kingdom while he built a new kingdom at Oyo. This is one reason why Ife was the spiritual capital of Oyo and Benin empires for centuries. In both kingdoms, the Ooni of Ife must send certain regalia of office at the installation of a new monarch for them to be legitimate.

Do you want more sources? There are hundreds of first hand account of westerners that came to Yoruba land in 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Your argument has been faulted by providing absolute no source to support your humongous lies and fabrications. Just like you do, I can sit down and write something more terrible about your tribe if I have the time. Funny enough, you wrote that epistle and challenge people to provide source for a counter opinion, but you didn't provide one single source. Boy free your mind from hate
I will urge people that really care about history of different tribes of Nigeria to check out Nigeria Nostalgia project pre-Nigeria discussion forum on Facebook. There you will meet alot of Nigerians and Nigeria descendants based all over the world exchanging knowledge.
@OP I challenge you to put this your trash in that forum

Crazy world

RIP to the deads

Ishilove:

Buhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! The blackness is off da shizzle. Mischievous!

Mediapace:


I thought i was the one that saw that.

No wonder they call them black stars

Why is it that we black people always talk ill of other blacks?

So sad

Great grandma killed it

dainformant:
A Canadian drivers license belonging to a Nigerian man Benson Biodun Alabi, was found recently by a twitter user at Ikeja area of Lagos. He shared a photo of the license online in a bid to locate the owner who probably stays/stayed in Ontario. See details below;

http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/03/canadian-drivers-license-found-at-ikeja.html

Op or whoever hid the address, just to let you know that some of us can see the city and the street name

abdulaz:
this one go don expire tey tey maybe that is the reason he threw it away.

He would have since applied for new one over there. No time.

Did you just say expired and threw it away?

As big as Canada is, there is nowhere to throw it away there. He has to come all the way to Nigeria and throw it away in a country where they can clone 1000s with his identity.

Nice bill

For those shouting Afonja. Google Ichi scarification

Tribal marks or scarification is a west african identification mark

Fake farmer...
Very soon, your white cloth will turn brown

Ok

Great news......

OP, if you write 7 most prominent secondary school, and you didn't put the secondary school that produced Fela. The greatest and most worldwide recognized Nigerian ever. Then you are a big joke
He went to Abeokuta Grammar School

Other Notable mentions are

Igbobi College
Baptist Academy Obanikoro
St Finbarr College
St Gregory College
Eko boys high school
Birch freeman college

These schools have hundreds of thousands if not millions Alumni scattered all over the world representing Nigeria spectacularly well

seunny4lif:


Bro we are talking about Nuclear strike here.
NK may not have the capacity to hit US direct now but its has the capacity to hit SK,Japan and almost all US bases within Asia region and thats the problem.
Even US Generals said the same in Congress and China wouldnt allow such behind her country because that will create refugees flowing to China and Japan..
So US cant do anything

Apart from what you said, China supported NK against SK and US during the Korean war, guess what? It was a stalement. Till date NK and Vietnam are the only communist country like China in the far east. Now you know how strong an ally they are.
Though everyone knows NK is being ruled by a dictator, but NK is like a bad child to China, no matter how mischievous he is, China will never allow a stranger to beat him at his backyard. And if Trump "Mr orange face" thinks he can bully NK, he better think again. Japan supporting US will make it more interesting because China has been looking for a way to pay Japan back what Japan did for them during the WW II and sino-japanese war

k199192:
it's comments like this that Kim Jong will see and be having hope. Was it not the same north Korea that hacked Sony sometime ago.? Do you remember what the US did to them. If one has respect for other people, he would be respected in turn. Kim has no respect for his sister Korea. It's too bad.

And US has respect for any nation in the world? Hacking everyone's phones, invading and causing trouble in the middle east and other parts of the world

softwerk:
Olympus has fallen must be deceiving this nuclear trigger-happy 'small boy'!!!

Donald Trump currently owns 70% of all the world's Nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

The Trump is also known to be unstable!

I personally won't want to mess with him.

And do you know North Korea has the backing of China. President "Agent orange" should go ahead and invade North Korea. He will learn a bitter lesson of how America lost the Vietnam war

Hands down, we Nigerians are the most joyous people on earth. Despite the recession, parties still going on in thousands every weekend

Really?

This is good....Arrest and interrogate the idiots that started the mayhem. Jail anyone of them found guilty, and allow peace to reign

Them no know wetin dem they protest for

Nigerian bloggers

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The face reminds me of Texas chainsaw massacre

Did I just hear semi virgin?

Blood comes out the first time, hymen broken. You are no longer a virgin

Gerrarehere with that your half virgin nonsense

Wowing

iluvdonjazzy:
yes na, it can happen in nigeria, remember that MD of nigeria port authority that knelt down b4 OSINBAJO at Lagos when Buhari was away in London on medical vacation. somebody should help me with d pix pls

Are you referring to the pix attached?

Well there is a big difference between the 2. One is a black african women greeting with cultural respect, and the other is a black african man doing eye service. In Africa, men don't kneel down to show respect, they either bow or prostrate

Pavarottii:

See ur level of reasoning; now the uniform is stupid right? Nigerians sha. No wonder we r where we r now; am not sure an American soldier will term his uniform stupid. Cos that's d pride of d country he or she serves.

If you understand English very well, you will know that the word "stupid" is connotative in that context. Moreso, the US senates won't be so dumb to be arguing about a uniform, and if the US senates do argue about uniform with secretary of homeland security, then no american will be wrong to call the uniform stupid.

Olukat:


Did I hear you say constitution?
Maybe all custom officers should dress in Agbada
since the only problem we have is the economy

And Ali is a custom officer to you

JideAmuGiaka:


Neither is it written in the constitution that he shouldn't wear the uniform.

To me, they are all stupid.....They are there having ego battle when there are more pressing issues