It is a well-known fact to all informed authorities that the Yoruba people originated from Nupe. The famous British explorer Sir Richard Burton, who sojourned among the Yorubas in the 1850s, wrote that the first tradition of origin of the Yoruba people categorically narrated that the Yorubas originated from Nupe.


Sir Richard Burton was told by the Yoruba people themselves that the first Yoruba people were merely Nupe people who were driven by war across the River Niger into today’s Yorubaland. Sultan Bello actually wrote that the Yoruba and Nupe people are practically one and the same people.

Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther categorically wrote that the first people to speak the Yoruba language were Nupe people in the Mokwa-Jebba general area here in KinNupe. Professor Kay Williamson wrote that linguistic evidences demonstrate that the Yoruba people originated from Nupe here in geographical KinNupe along the banks of the River Niger.


Professor Ade Obayemi also wrote that the Yoruba people originated from Nupe. Professor A.E. Afigbo also wrote that the Yoruba people originated from the Niger-Benue Confluence area here in KinNupe.

And Professor Idris Sha’aba Jimada reiterated that the Yoruba people originated in the Mokwa-Jebba-Tada Axis here in KinNupe. Also the dialectologist O.O. Akinkugbe wrote that the Yoruba people originated from the Niger-Benue Confluence area here in KinNupe.

As late as 1857 Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther and Dr. William Baikie saw the Nupe priests at the Kitsa Rock shrine on the Jebba Island chanting in an ancient Nupe-Yoruba dialect that is obviously the form in which the Yoruba language originated from Nupe in the Jebba general area.


Sultan Bello, Sheikh Muhammad Dan Masani, and Professor Leo Frobenius all wrote that the Yoruba initially known as the Ambara while Professor Robert Blench wrote that the Nupe people used to be known as the Ibara. Of course, Ambara and Ibara are one and the same word, meaning that the Yoruba and the Nupe used to be one and the same people in the past known as the Bara.

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It is interesting to note, right from the outset here, that so many Yoruba authorities have themselves consummately written and documented in their various works that the Yoruba race originated from Nupe.

Yoruba historians, including renowned authorities like Professor F. Showande, Professor Jacob Ade Ajayi, Professor I.A. Akinjogbin, Dr. Saburi O. Biobaku, Professor J.A. Atanda, Professor Ade Obayemi, Dr. Olumide Ogunremi, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, E.M. Lijadu, all wrote that Yoruba people originated from Nupe. Professor S. Biobaku categorically wrote that the entire Yoruba race originated from the KinNupe area to the west of the Niger-Benue Confluence.

Professor Saburi Biobaku who is a renowned Yoruba historian with formidable credentials categorically wrote that the Yoruba people came into Yorubaland through Nupe.

Long ago, before the time of the colonial and Yoruba professors listed above, the German Professor Leo Frobenius was in Nigeria and he also documented the fact that the initial and original Yoruba traditions categorically narrated that the Yoruba people originated from KinNupe.

Professor Leo Frobenius was an anthropologist and it didn’t take him long to realize that the Yoruba people originated to the north of Yorubaland which is, of course, KinNupe.

Yoruba Founded by Nupe

Reverend Samuel Johnson wrote that the Yoruba race originated from Lamurudu. He said Oduduwa was a descendant of Lamurudu.

Mallam Magana Abubakar said that Lamurudu was the Yoruba name for Etsu Nupeta or his slave known as Kisra. Mallam Abdullahi Manko Suleman said that the Yoruba people originated from Etsu Nupeta through his slave Kisra otherwise known as Lamurudu. And Dmitri M. Bondarenko and Peter M. Roese did wrote that Lamurudu was the Yoruba name for Kisra.

Professor Leo Frobenius wrote that the Yoruba Nation was founded by Etsu Nupeta. Professor Leo Frobenius also wrote that Nupeta was actually referred to as Messi Shango by the Yoruba traditions. S.J. Hogben also wrote that the Yoruba people originated from the Kisra migrations of Etsu Nupeta’s people. And Tomori Moshood Adijolola wrote that Kisra was a Nupe king.

It should also be noted that most of the earlier Yoruba traditions and also some of the works of these authorities mentioned or even demonstrated that almost all the Yoruba settlements and kingdoms were actually founded by ancient Nupe people in prehistoric times.

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