Tribute To The Yoruba
by Reno Omokri

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 Copenaghen.
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 [/b]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.

[b]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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Every tribe has some bad eggs...

Nice piece Reno...

Yoruba is a great African tribe...

Wait! Oga Reno is from which tribe self?

Reno Omockery, I never thought I would ever have cause to agree with you

This thread is a repitition

DDDEnterprises:
Wait! Oga Reno is from which tribe self?

Itsekiri

theFilmtric:

Itsekiri

Reno mum is from ogun state

niggadee:
Reno mum is from ogun state

He is Itsekiri

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Wao! I'm flabbergasted!

Omo....I'm proud to be a Yoruba

............The truth is always in front You weda you choose to accept it or not..

Proudly yoruba

Flahyuq:
Omo....I'm proud to be a Yoruba

Yorubas are simply an amazing people with an established and great past. Today we are one of the most successful, innovative and prominent ethnic group in Africa.

If the Yoruba had their own nation, free of the encumbrance of Nigeria, then I think we would today compare favourably with the likes of Singapore and UK.

Human resources make nations great. Fact. Yorubas have probably the best and most well-rounded reserve of human resources in Africa. Fact.

We don hear! Next ?

Grayoso:


Yorubas are simply an amazing people with an established and great past. Today we are one of the most successful, innovative and prominent ethnic group in Africa.

If the Yoruba had their own nation, free of the encumbrance of Nigeria, then I think we would today compare favourably with the likes of Singapore and UK.

Human resources make nations great. Fact. Yorubas have probably the best and most well-rounded reserve of human resources in Africa. Fact.

100%!

Truth be told,the Yorubas at home in Nigeria are extremely backward,the middle n upper class Yoruba are majorly abroad,they have abandoned their home. One weakness the Yoruba have is that they don't know how to dominate their turf(land),they leave it too open for infiltration. The Yorubas are also not a very organised people.southwestern Nigeria is not really different from other areas of Nigeria,despite the so called Yoruba achievements

babasolution:
Truth be told,the Yorubas at home in Nigeria are extremely backward,the middle n upper class Yoruba are majorly abroad,they have abandoned their home. One weakness the Yoruba have is that they don't know how to dominate their turf(land),they leave it too open for infiltration. The Yorubas are also not a very organised people.southwestern Nigeria is not really different from other areas of Nigeria,despite the so called Yoruba achievements

Painment!!!!

tuniski:

Painment!!!!

It's the truth,the Yorubas are a foolish tribe,with all their so called achievements,what is the general condition of the southwest as against other zones

DDDEnterprises:
Wait! Oga Reno is from which tribe self?

hes from the itseriki tribe but they can be classified under yoruba

Reno omo Kiri-Kiri, you have done well. My head was just swelling up like Garri Ijebu soaked & submerged in a bowl of cold ice-water as I was reading this article.

The is the third "Article of Truth" that you have written after "The Ijebu, The Yoruba And Their Influence On The Bible" and "Are The Igbos of Nigeria A Lost Tribe of Israel?"

I call them "Articles of Truth" because there are "Articles of Lies" being peddled by some people who are always in competition with my ethnicity (The Yorubas) borne out of inferiority complex, insecurity & sheer mischievousness but they will surely perish in the "River Niger" if they do not make a quadratic U-Turn and desist from their evil, vacuous, emotional and envious ways.

If there is any ethnicity, group or association that wants to forge an alliance with my people in fighting, tackling, dislodging and annihilating a "common enemy" pushing an age-long invasive agenda & conquest drive to commandeer and overrun our ancestral lands like they've done in Jos and Benue; such ethnicity, group and association must come cap in hand to seek our mutually beneficial cooperation.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.

No groups, associations or ethnicities can blackmail the descendants of Oduduwa through insults & derogatory remarks into supporting their cause.

A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its pond is an ocean.

We the descendants of Oduduwa have sat here years after years and have been told in a patronizing way by our "common enemy" that we ought to accept & prostrate to their COWS so that their herdsmen can continue destroying our farmlands & raping our women.

We look about us and see the shenanigans of our "common enemy", with her foot upon the neck of over 200Million Nigerian free-borns.

We look back into history and see that the prosperity of our "common enemy" came from the Niger Delta - by allocating 95% of the Oil Blocks to themselves while the indigenous inhabitants of the Niger Delta drink & bath with petroleum-contaminated water.

Our "common enemy" wins its prosperity by cutting the throats of different ethnic minorities who refuse to surrender their lands & resources. At such a price, we the descendants of Oduduwa will not have prosperity.

To our common enemy; the wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Ofcourse, we know there are fanatical & political traitors amongst us who are being bankrolled with the caliphate's blood money.

When the time comes, we shall decapitate them and hang their treacherous coconut heads on a spike for the Vultures of Anubis to feast on.

I am proud to belong to a region which has taught the world tolerance, hospitality and universal acceptance.

I am proud to belong to an ethinity which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all Geo-Political zones in Nigeria.

I am proud to belong to the Oduduwa ancestry & Nation!

Reno Omo Kiri-Kiri; Welldone brother, nice and apt write-up. More ink to your pen!

Signing out,

Obatala7Kronos

From Nibiru.

babasolution:


It's the truth,the Yorubas are a foolish tribe,with all their so called achievements,what is the general condition of the southwest as against other zones

I agree with you, but it's because we are laid-back people like the hausa, kanuri and the other minority tribes unlike the fulatas, Igbos and Ijaws....the reason is because of the abundance(mostly fertile soil)....abundance makes people laid-back.

True....

Even though he may be right to a large extent, I believe Reno is just trying to buy back over an already lost appeal from Yorubas, if not what's the essence of this at this time that even the Yorubas are bashing him on both on and offline

Grayoso:


Yorubas are simply an amazing people with an established and great past. Today we are one of the most successful, innovative and prominent ethnic group in Africa.

If the Yoruba had their own nation, free of the encumbrance of Nigeria, then I think we would today compare favourably with the likes of Singapore and UK.

Human resources make nations great. Fact. Yorubas have probably the best and most well-rounded reserve of human resources in Africa. Fact.

I agree with what you and reno have said, but there is an existential threat to the greatness of the Yorubas, which will start manifesting in the next couple of years if things are not properly taken care of. We tend to ignore this aspect that has been creeping upon us as a people. we are living on past glory. Our youths, that are meant to carry forth the success story are failing. though some are still trying. We are gradually losing our omoluabi's etos. All these caused by some destructive external interference and above all the stupid and destructive political sets currently ravaging the southwest enabled by their political hoodlums and unions. They are currently killing qualitative education across the land and producing a crop of tuwale generation.

There are a few truths in what he said but my own question is: how come the yorubas have allowed Nigeria to hold them back? Are we really better than the other tribes in terms of economy, progress, education, environment and more?

Reno Omokri is Afonja headslammer

Good observations,though not in support completely,85% of what u said might be right, but what surprises me till how one man led them to this worst conditions we are in Nigeria, hunger, insecurities etc against the advice of their elders, today what their elders and neighbouring regions saw ahead is happening.

OMOKRI IGBOHO FOR 2023

Diplomacy is the language slavery is the act.What made Ilorin a Fulani controlled town is anything but progressiveness.