Yoruba Americans are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá) are a West African ethnic group that predominantly inhabits southwestern Nigeria, with smaller indigenous communities in Benin and Togo. Significant populations are also present in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.

Yoruba Americans
Total population
196,000 (estimate)

Regions with significant populations
Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Florida, Louisiana, California and most Southern States.

Languages
English (American English), Yoruba, Nigerian English, African American Vernacular English), French, Spanish and Nigerian Pidgin.

Religion
Christianity, Islam, and Yoruba religion

Related ethnic groups
African Americans, Beninese Americans, Black Canadians, Nigerian Americans, Nigerian Canadians, Yoruba Canadians, Yoruba people

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Americans

The first Yoruba people who arrived to the United States were imported as slaves from Nigeria and Benin during the Atlantic slave trade. This ethnicity of the slaves was one of the main origins of present-day Nigerians who arrived to the United States, along with the Igbo. In addition, native slaves of current Benin hailed from peoples such as Nago (Yoruba subgroup, although exported mainly by Spanish, when Louisiana was Spanish) -, Ewe, Fon and Gen. Many of the slaves imported to the modern United States from Benin were sold by the King of Dahomey, in Whydah.

The slaves brought with them their cultural practices, languages, cuisine.and religious beliefs rooted in spirit and ancestor worship.So, the manners of the Yoruba, Fon, Gen and Ewe of Benin were key elements of Louisiana Voodoo. Also Haitians, who migrated to Louisiana in the late nineteenth century and also contributed to Voodoo of this state, have the Yoruba Fon, and Ewe among their main origins. The Yoruba, and some northern Nigerian ethnic groups, had tribal facial identification marks. These could have assisted a returning slave in relocating his or her ethnic group, but few slaves escaped the colonies. In the colonies, masters tried to dissuade the practice of tribal customs. They also sometimes mixed people of different ethnic groups to make it more difficult for them to communicate and bond together in rebellion. Today, most African Americans share ancestry with the Yoruba people.

After the slavery abolition in 1865, many modern Nigerian immigrants of Yoruba ancestry have come to the United States starting in the mid-twentieth century to pursue educational opportunities in undergraduate and post-graduate institutions. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a significant number of Nigerians of Yoruba ancestry to immigrate to the United States. During the 1960s and 1970s, after the Nigerian-Biafran War, Nigeria's government funded scholarships for Nigerian students, and many of them were admitted to American universities. While this was happening, there were several military coups and brief periods of civilian rule. All this caused many Nigerians to emigrate. Most of these Nigerian immigrants are of Yoruba, Igbo and Ibibio origins.

Notable Yoruba people
Cudjoe Lewis, one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade
Matilda McCrear, one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade
Scipio Vaughan, slave
Brendon Ayanbadejo, football player
Femi Emiola, actress
Lola Ogunnaike, entertainment journalist
Angélique Kidjo, singer
Adewale Ogunleye, football player
Toyin Falola, historian
Oluwatoyin Asojo, biochemist
Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball player
Oye Owolewa, politician
Wale, rapper
Kehinde Wiley, artist
Harold Demuren, aeronautical engineer
Oshoke Abalu, architect and futurist
Toluse Olorunnipa, political commentator
Abiola Irele, literary scholar
Babatunde Ogunnaike, chemical engineer
Ilesanmi Adesida, physicist
Akintunde Akinwande, electrical engineer
Kamaru Usman, mixed martial arts fighter
Chamillionaire, rapper
Tomi Adeyemi, novelist
Wally Adeyemo, United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Luvvie Ajayi, blogger
David Oyelowo, actor
Dot da Genius, music producer
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, chess player
Deji Akinwande, electrical and computer engineering professor
Akinwumi Ogundiran, archaeologist
Bamidele A. Ojo, political scientist
Kunle Olukotun, computer scientist
Mojisola Adeyeye pharmacist and professor
Fela Sowande, musician and composer
Nelson M. Oyesiku, neurosurgeon
Olufunmilayo Olopade, hematologist
Yewande Olubummo, mathematician
Kate Okikiolu, mathematician
Rick Famuyiwa, film director
Temie Giwa-Tubosun, entrepreneur
Folakemi T. Odedina, pharmacy professor
Bo Oshoniyi, soccer player
Sope Aluko, actress
Sade Baderinwa, news anchor
Folake Olowofoyeku, actress
Tunde Adebimpe, lead singer of TV on the Radio
Adebayo Ogunlesi, lawyer and investment banker
Jimmy Adegoke, climatologist
Dayo Okeniyi, actor
Arike Ogunbowale, basketball player
Benson Mayowa, football player
Bayo Ojikutu, creative writer
Adebayo Alonge, entrepreneur
Tosin Abasi, founder and lead guitarist of Animals as Leaders
Nelson M. Oyesiku, neurosurgeon
Lola Eniola-Adefeso, chemical engineer
Deborah Ayorinde, actress
Jacob K. Olupona, scholar of indigenous African religions
Mobolaji Dawodu, fashion designer
Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, historian
Ade A. Olufeko, artist and technologist
Toyin Ojih Odutola, graphic artist
Esther Agbaje, attorney and politician
Abiodun Koya, classical opera singer
Ibiyinka Alao, architect
John Dabiri, aerospace engineer
Adewale Ogunleye, football player
Tobi Jnohope, footballer

Incomplete, what about Shade Adu and Whitehouse Family?

Segzy22:
Incomplete, what about Shade Adu and Whitehouse Family?

Big time Olodo, Sade Adu and lighthousefamily are nigerian british born.

Segzy22:
Incomplete, what about Shade Adu and Whitehouse Family?

England.

YORUBA AMAKA..

Leader in ALL ramifications

Waa shere!

Always Tom and Di.ck measuring..

We versus them all the time.

Hanty, when would you move on from all this tribal shit??

Btw, the monster you guys all fed and supported has matured..

Let that boy canceller derail this thread as he has been derailing other threads.

The sweet go circulate las las

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helinues:
Always Tom and Di.ck measuring..

We versus them all the time.

Hanty, when would you move on from all this tribal shit??

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meccuno:
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Wait, are you always afraid of engaging with others intellectually reason why you cancel others comments without dropping a single contribution..

What are you afraid of?

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helinues:


Wait, are you always afraid of engaging with others intellectually reason why you cancel others comments without dropping a single contribution..

What are you afraid of?

[/s]I have read your comments here. There is nothing intellectual about you other than useless tribal conflicts.

1850fifty:
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We are glad to have subjected you to be doing this

While others just woke up, reading news and Information to brighten/sharpen their brains, you are busy knocking your brain down early morning by doing what no one can ever be proud of cos na brain damaging efforts.

Abi how would you introduce yourself if you had the opportunity of meeting other NL'S?

Hi, I am Chukwudi, the notorious NL canceller. I love cancelling comments it's always cure my insecurities. I have used nothing less than 15,000 monikers for this cancellation bullshit. Infact, I have spent over half a decade wasting time cancelling comments on NL...

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meccuno:
[s][/s]I have read your comments here. There is nothing intellectual about you other than useless tribal conflicts.

It I am yet to read your own personal opinion about issue before apart from trolling others all in the name of cancelling their comments?

Is it that you do not have confident in dropping your own contribution?

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helinues:


It I am yet to read your own personal opinion about issue before apart from trolling others all in the name of cancelling their comments?

Is it that you do not have confident in dropping your own contribution?

[/s]i don't reason with bigots. i trash them

meccuno:
[s][/s]i don't reason with bigots. i trash them

But you just displayed that syndrome now

You left the entire thread and be attacking others..

Remove the logs now

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helinues:


But you just displayed that syndrome now

You left the entire thread and be attacking others..

Remove the logs now

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helinues:


But you just displayed that syndrome now

You left the entire thread and be attacking others..

Remove the logs now

Keep quiet and stop ranting.

so this Afonja thread is still on one page? They better add an Igbo news so it would get to 100 pages. I am sure if Nairaland were to be only Afonja people, Seun would have been extremely poor