Tribute To The Yoruba
People often assume the Yoruba are so successful as an ethnic nationality due to their thirst for education, and how it has penetrated down even amongst their remotest rural communities. But study them. Their culture of respect opens doors for them that even education cannot open. Diplomacy gives them supremacy.
And their culture is often mistaken for what it is not by others who do not understand them as a people.
What some people ignorantly call cowardice, or sycophancy, is stooping to conquer. It is both a military and diplomatic strategy.
This is what Scripture meant in 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty”.
Wisdom, courtesy, diplomacy, and praise are all weapons. A weapon is anything you can use to achieve your strategic objective. It does not always have to be a physically offensive weapon.
But are the Yorubas even cowards, as some people accuse them to be? Well, let us let the facts speak for
themselves.
In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.
In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that 'Abacha did not loot', you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen.
He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.
He returned to face almost certain death.
What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.
Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.
In addition to the above, in my opinion, they are the least likely to maintain and retain their cultural values, when it clashes with other cultures.
I love how they retain their full culture when they travel abroad. It is a rarity amongst Africans. When
you visit London, you may be confused if you think Yoruba is the only African language in existence.
A Yoruba man can enter a quiet bus and receive a phone call and speak in Yoruba, and won’t feel
embarrassed. And I am not referring to a Johnny Just Come. I am referring to second generation Yorubas who were born and brought up in England, I have been traveling the world from childhood, yet I have not encountered people doing that with much wider spoken African languages, such as Swahili and Hausa.
They may speak it privately in their homes abroad.
but not publicly, and even if they do, it is not to the extent of the Yoruba.
It has gotten to the extent that the Metropolitan Police now recruit Yoruba speaking Constables, and Harrods now employ Yoruba speaking cashiers. Oh please do not just take my words at face value. Fact check me.
Go to Houston on a Sunday, you will see Yoruba people everywhere in their native wears, adire, plus abeti aja and eleti aja.
Here in California, other Africans now draw crowd to their parties by saying ‘the Nigerians will be there.’
This will annoy other tribes, including mine, however, when foreigners talk about how cool Nigerians are, they are usually referring to Yorubas.
Take it or leave it, but the Yoruba are the most progressive Black people on the face of planet Earth.
They produced the first Black African Nobel laureate for an academic category (Wole Soyinka), and the first Black African military ruler to have voluntarily handed over to a civilian President (Olusegun Obasanjo), and the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award (Sade Adu) as well as the first person born and bred in Africa to have won a Pulitzer Prize (Dele Olojede).
The reason why Yorubas are the biggest music stars of Nigerian origin is because they are unabashedly Yoruba. They do not try to sing or act like Westerners.
They are very in-your-face with their Yoruba-ness. And when people like themselves to such a high degree, others tend to join them in liking them.
There are an estimated 15 Black billionaires on Planet Earth. Three of them are Yoruba. More than any ethnic nationality in Africa.
US President, Joe Biden, named a Yoruba man, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury Secretary. This is the highest position to which a Black African has been appointed (not elected) in US history. Another
Yoruba man, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, became the first person on Earth to successfully perform a surgery by taking out an unborn fetus from its mother’s womb and putting it back after the surgery.
77% of all Black doctors in America, and a very large percentage of these are Yoruba.
I commend the Edekiri people (the real name of the Yoruba). You guys are oni te si iwaju.
#TableShaker #RenosNuggets
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years.
Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival
Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.


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Good write-up that recycles what are well-documented facts about the Yoruba. But what's the motive?

In the last couple of years, Reno Omokri has consistently criticized the Yoruba while praising the Igbo with complimentary adjectives.

Then, a few days ago, former President Goodluck Jonathan, his former boss, praised Yoruba people for managing Nigeria diversity better the other ethnic groups. Then all of a sudden, Reno Omokri pens a long Facebook post eulogizing Yoruba people merely to reflect the opinion of his former boss.

It is obvious that all along, Reno Omokri had nursed acrimony against the Yoruba for not supporting Jonathan in 2015 Presidential election. He was more hurt than Jonathan himself.

One thing is clear: most of the things Reno Omokri says or writes are hypocritical rather than sincere.

Ori mi wu.

One truth I know is that Yoruba nation will be among the most successful countries in Africa.

How the YoIruba people themselves fail to see this bright future is a mystery.

Death to Terrorists including Igbo (IPOB/UGM/ESN) terrorist!

PS: I prefer death by hanging.

Yoruba is the only reason there is Nigeria, the North and the South East/South South are core enemies, Yoruba is the bond between them

Agricaddict:
Yoruba is the only reason there is Nigeria

They really have a strong shock absorber, even if the fulani finish all the people in two states, they might still be using diplomacy and still accommodating the killers.

SLAP44:


They really have a strong shock absorber, even if the fulani finish all the people in two states, they might still be using diplomacy and still accommodating the killers.

What's this one saying?

SLAP44:


They really have a strong shock absorber, even if the fulani finish all the people in two states, they might still be using diplomacy and still accommodating the killers.

We have been seeing gory pictures from imo Abia and Ebonyi, especially the women Rashidi took as sex slaves without consequences.

SLAP44:


They really have a strong shock absorber, even if the fulani finish all the people in two states, they might still be using diplomacy and still accommodating the killers.

Slap yourself Ewu

This guy know how to press our mumu button, ori mi si wu

Reno, thanks but no thanks...we already know all these.....you talk of other tribes even more than your Itsekiri tribe.

Chai this guy is good at sycophancy


The Edekiri stuff is real though

The guy made his research well

TheSupleemLeada:
Reno, thanks but no thanks...we already know all these.....you talk of other tribes even more than your iteskeri tribe.

Itsekiri

theFilmtric:
Chai this guy is good at sycophancy


The Edekiri stuff is real though

The guy made his research well

Itsekiri is also among the edekiri group.

I trust Yoruba people, they will never allow Reno press their button as he usually presses the nipples of the dots.
However, one thing that stands out was the circumstances of the rematch of 1966. When the coupists led by TY Danjuma had come after Aguiyi Ironsi at the Ibadan official residence of Fajuyi, they had vowed to erase any dot-like creature they come across.
Earlier, Aguiyi Jnr(son of Aguiyi) was in the company of his father as one of the guests of Fajuyi. Once again, the kindness of Yoruba shone through when Aguiyi Jnr was hidden in a cupboard in one of the rooms ( Yes, in a cupboard!) as the coupists bayed for blood of any dot however small or tiny. The magnanimity saved the life of the young boy.

Till date ibos have not in any way shown appreciation for the many times Yoruba had been so good to them, rather they hate them in return.
Yoruba have done ibos lots of favor many times that has shapen their lives and given to them an existence in Nigeria.
Yoruba has my utmost respect for demanding nothing in return from ibos. If it were to be the north, the dot knows they would have paid in full or be erased.


- erase the dot

It's no doubt Omoluabis are the best in the world.


They make less noise and don't chest beat on their achievements

TheSupleemLeada:


Itsekiri is also among the edekiri group.

No
They are different

the first african to win a nobel laureate prize was "Albert Luthuli" of south africa and not wole soyinka..

EjaikreTheViper:

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cocolacec:

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bomb24:
the first african to win a nobel laureate prize was "Albert Luthuli" of south africa and not wole soyinka..

He won the Peace prize, different from Academic category. Reno was specific about Academic category.

- erase the dot

EraseTheDot:

He won the Peace prize not in Academic category. Reno was specific.

- erase the dot

he wasn't specific,go back and read what he wrote, he made mention of the "first black african" to win the prize meanwhile a SA was the first african to win the prize.a lot of misinformation on one article lolzz.

This will pain some people o.

Agricaddict:



What's this one saying?

Nonsense as usual.

See this one. Read the article slowly this time. It is clearly stated in the article "of academic category".

bomb24:


he wasn't specific,go back and read what he wrote, he made mention of the "first black african" to win the prize meanwhile a SA was the first african to win the prize.a lot of misinformation on one article lolzz.

bomb24:


he wasn't specific,go back and read what he wrote, he made mention of the "first black african" to win the prize meanwhile a SA was the first african to win the prize.a lot of misinformation on one article lolzz.

You get eyes so?
He stated "in academic category".
Read again slowly and let the brain connect.

- erase the dot

Yoruba nation is blessed.