1. The main Yoruba cities are: Porto-Novo (Ajase), Ouèssè (Wese), Ketou (Ketu), Savé (Tchabe), Tchaourou (Shaworo), Bantè-Akpassi, Bassila, Ouinhi, Adjarra, Adja-Ouèrè (Aja Were), Sakété (Itakete), Ifangni (Ifonyi), Pobè, Dassa (Idasha), Glazoue (Gbomina), Ipinle and Aledjo-Koura.

2. They constitute more than 12% of the total population. There are various sub-groups such as Ana-Ife, Anago-Ketu, Anago Shabe, Idaasha, Isha etc. Most of migrated from Nigeria between 12th -17th century. Earlier migration was mainly from Ile-Ife while later ones were that of Awori, Egba and Yewa people.

3. Porto-Novo (Ajashe) is the capital of Benin. It is Benin's second-largest city. Porto-Novo was once a tributary of the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, which had offered it protection from the neighbouring Fon. The Yoruba community in Porto-Novo today remains one of the two ethnicities aboriginal to the city. Historically the original inhabitants of the area were Yoruba speaking.

4. Tchaourou (Saworo in Yoruba etymology, meaning rattle) is a city located in the Borgou Department of Benin. It is the birthplace of former Beninese president Yayi Boni. It is home to people of various ethnic groups, mainly Yoruba people, also known as Anago or Nago, Bariba and Fulani peoples.

5. Dassa-Zoumé, also known as Igbo Idaasha or simply Dassa, is a city in central Benin, on the Cotonou-to-Parakou railway and the main north-south highway. The indigenous population of Dassa are the Idaasha. They migrated from the Egba subgroup of western Yoruba in present-day Nigeria to settle here.

6. Save kingdom is the most northwesterly of precolonial polities in the Yoruba-Edo region that claimed its authority through descent from the founding kings of Ile-Ife. Shabe kingdom was protected by Oyo and the subsequent weakening of Oyo led to recurrent In Sabe the Oba is referred to as the Onisabe of Sabe.

7. Ketu is one of the oldest capitals of the Yoruba-speaking people. They are related to the Egba sub-group of the Yoruba people in present-day Nigeria. Ketu is considered one of the original kingdoms established by the children of Oduduwa. The kingdom was one of the main enemies of the kingdom of Dahomey, often fighting against Dahomeans as part of Oyo's imperial forces. Many of Ketu's citizens were eventually sold into slavery and this which accounts for the kingdom's importance in Brazilian Candomblé.

Sources:
Parrinder, E.G. The Story of Ketu: An ancient Yoruba kingdom. Ibadan, Nigeria.
Gurstelle AW. Settlement history and chronology in the Savè area of central Bénin
Forde D. The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa. Routledge

Ewedu

one world

We also have Awawa youths in Togo...not only Benin republic.

please who are the TOPA ppl of benin republic?

The ones here should join their people in Benin