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salford:
Her dad is fon and mum is Yoruba. Egun are a different tribe lol

The Fon tribe is comprised of other sub tribes that share language intelligibilty of which the Gouns 'egun' are part.

Afam4eva:
Even though people are fine irrespective of where they come from, i think Igbos are way finer than Yoruba girls on the average. Infact, it's not even a contest because Yoruba girls are not in the competition as far as physical beauty is concerned. Now, if we were talking of Igbo and Yoruba guys now, then the Yoruba guys could carry the day but not Yoruba girls.

I dont think that is the fact, i always use this analysis whenever i discuss this kind of topic with my friends who are Igbos. From my own point of view i believe the Igbo land has a high number of beautiful girls compared to Yoruba not that an Igbo girl is more beautiful than a Yoruba girl, in a random population selection of say 10, you might be able to pick 8 beautiful Igbo babes while only 3 of equal beauty could be picked of Yoruba. I know the stereotype Igbo beauty - that fair, cool and calm beauty, trust me there are some part of Yoruba land you will find such Ondo/ some part of Ekiti and some Ijebu come to mind. The truth is that Igbo land is blessed with abundant of beautiful women and even in the villages, you still see them, it reminds me of Ogboko, Ideato South where i did my Youth service '06

gregyboy:
are minding the yoruba boy dont you know they ard very cunning and possesive
they twist anything basically to favour them selves history names i meaning anything
just imagine when they said imade was a yoruba name until davido revealed it recently or saying oduduwa is yoruba when in thier alphabet there is nothing like "uwa" or is it when they claimed adele was a yoruba that are father is youruba and her mom is white until adele her self reveled otherwise or is when they claim oba heads are been buried in ile ife with no prove no heads to show for it or is it them saying benin was originally speaking yoruba before they changed the language to benin..
my friend leave them when yorubas have issue within themselves the truth would fall out from thier mouth like oba of lagos did

Uwa is used in the ancient Yoruba and still used in Ife, Ekiti and Ondo dialects, it means wealth/prosperity.
I saw this thread as that which belongs for a matured mind deliberations and intellectual discourse but when it has gone down to the degrading norm this platform is known for, i beg to sign out.
Thanks to Macof i guess you are Ekiti, do try open a thread for us that will talk on our history and dialect, thanks to Scholes, 9jacool and others that gave knowledgeable insights.

scholes0:
I don’t know if it is the so called “Benin melody”
Buy Ekiti music actually shares that exact type of rhythm

On the other end of the spectrum are the Oyos with their heavy talking drums, bata and stuff.

that is what i am trying to say too,
i remember in '91 when we went for our Grand dad's funeral,
i was almost lost, i barely connected to the culture i saw,
but since then, though i was still young i started getting curious about Ekiti,
There was this drum in which the pattern of beating is not Yoruba at all, i remember my Dad saying they were ancient and the skins were human,
even the music pattern and rhythm sound strange, especially the traditional ritualistic type.
i cant count number of times when people ask after seeing my surname 'osatuyi' if i am Edo.
i really love to know more on the past with Ondo and Ekiti.
i want to believe poeple have been existing in these areas before waves of Ile Ife people came to mingle and mix up the tradition of the earlier aborigines of the place.

9jakool:
Yeah, I could immediately tell based on the dialect, dance, attire, and instruments/music. Ekiti does not have Bini like melody. Relationship with Bini isn't as strong in Ekiti as it is in Ondo. Bini's encroachment into Ekiti is only limited to certain ares in Ekiti. Ekiti towns like Otun, Ido, Iye, Efon-Alaye, Iloro, Okemesi, Oye, Ikole, and Omuo didn't have much to do with Bini.

you are right,
i believe the influence is more with Ado and it's off shoot towns which my home town Ijan is part of, when we were growing we had this neighbour from Owo, my dad and their own dad communicated freely in each other's dialect. Then i got to know many words shared in common in our own ekiti dialect and owo like 'luka luka' or 'luka' which means daada in Yoruba, 'Fo'-- speak
Just like you said the influence does not cover every part of Ekiti and even the Ekiti dialects are deeper from one axis to the other, while some could be easily likened to say Owo, Idanre, Akure dialects some are close to Ijesha, Igbomina etc.

9jakool:
I'm pretty sure those are Ondo dancers from Owo. They were probably invited for the coronation.

having listened carefully and heard 'gede' i believe that too, but both dialects of Owo and ekiti bear a closer resemblance than other ondo dialects to ekiti.

macof:
Quite right, There's a pattern - Itsekiri - Ijebu/Ilaje - Owo - Ondo/Ekiti

Ekiti however don't have the Bini-like melody

I was suprised when my dad told me that the chieftancy title of our family (Ijan Ekiti) 'Oshogbon' has a Bini root, even Ologbosere and other titles of bini roots are also given in some families. The influence of Bini can't be denied in Ekiti culture and traditions.

[quote author=dejavski post=37791792]Ilaje versions of yoruba words

Omo - Yoruba / Oma - ilaje
Ori(child) - yoruba/ Origho - ilaje
Enu(Mouth) - yoruba/ erhu - ilaje
Ile(House) - Yoruba/ Ule - ilaje
Gbogbo(everything) - Yoruba/ de de(not related to dede which is a name) - ilaje
Iyara(Room) - Yoruba/ kurudu - ilaje
Bawo ni (how are you) - yoruba/ ko se gha - ilaje
Ori mi rire(i am fortunate) - yoruba/ Orighomisan/Orimisan/Orimihan - ilaje
Ki lo so(what did you say) - yoruba/ ki wo fo - ilaje
Ta ni iwo(who are you) - yoruba/ ehi Lehi - ilaje

Eniyan(person). - yoruba/ one - ilaje
Egbon mi(my elder sibling or cousin or uncle) - yoruba/ ogbone mi - ilaje
Tani (who) - yoruba/ Lehi - ilaje‎

Any ilaje in the house feel free to add yours..[/quoti

Ekiti is highly similar but in intonation there could be diff.
Eni is Oni
Enu is Erun
Ki lo so is Koi Fo
Bawo ni is Koi ti ri
but yara is diff----- Orupo
and so on.

scholes0:
I ave noticed that the Ilaje, Owo, Ikale and to certain extents, the Idanre, Ondo and Ekiti dialects are infacts very very similar.
with Ilaje-Owo being most similar even though miles apart.

* These dialects have the presence of the fricatives
"Gh"...... which has been condensed to just 'W" in standard Yoruba
"Gw", "Kh",

* Words beginning with "U" which in standard yoruba would be an "I" like:
Ule - Ile, Isu - Usu, Use - Ise, Ugbo - Igbo, Etc

* Use variants of Dede, Kete and Gede to refer to an entirety ... like
Aghan oma Ilaje Dede (All the Ilaje children) , Oma Ekiti Kete (All Ekiti children) , Oma Ogho gede (All Owo children) Etc

* All have slower and more "melancholic" / "melodic" forms or kinds of music which involves a slow chanting, and calculated step orientated movement like the Binis-- with rhythmic swaying of the body from side to side, and graceful leg movements.

It is said that these South-Eastern dialects, are the most original form of Yoruba.... not the Oyo influenced generality that we all speak today.

And Et cettera.

Most ekiti willl say 'Ihan omo ekiti kete'

macof:
Quite right, There's a pattern - Itsekiri - Ijebu/Ilaje - Owo - Ondo/Ekiti

Ekiti however don't have the Bini-like melody

watch this dance display from 2:03 and tell me there is no Bini influence/melody


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRyn8beFLTw

onuwaje:
Nah!

Onetuwaje

It means person wen de chop wealth.

Uwa is wealth in Itsekiri

it also means wealth too in Ekiti /Ondo as told by my dad
Wealth, Prosperity and Blessing------- are they not synonymous? semantics
Ekiti will say Oni
ilaje/Ondo will say One.

like my mom when cooking yam back then will say 'lo tu' su je' i.e go fetch yam and eat .
standard yoruba is 'mu' while our dialect and Ondo is 'tu'


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onuwaje:
Tell me d meaning of my name let me prove ur sorry yoruba ass wrong

i am from Ekiti,
i believe our dialect and ondo own could be a lil closer to your language than other Yoruba dialects.
Uwa is used in Ondo, while the Ekiti dialect is silent on the 'W' we call it Ua
Uwa means Blessing or prosperity in both dialects
if it is same in itsekiri then your name Onuwaje could mean----- the one who owns prosperity or blessing has reign or become.
it will be spelt Onuaje in Ekiti.

rammyty:
Please how do you achieve this. And the ingredients. thanks.

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this is just a simple okro/veg soup, nothing that serious
--- put water to boil
---- added blended fresh pepper
----- added spices like oziza seed( not sure of the name though)
------ added blended locust bean and grounded crayfish
i allowed it to boil together
---------- added little palm oil and allowed to boil ( depends on your taste, don't like much of it)
---------- added my smoked fish ( my favorite, but you can put in all your meat, fish however you want it)
----------- added grated okro and vegetable(ugu)
----------- stir and allow steam for say 2 mins and mind you don't cover the pot, so that you have the green color come out and crunchy.

[quote author=rammyty post=58304566]Please how do you achieve this. And the ingredients. thanks.[/qu
this is just a simple okro/veg soup, nothing that serious
--- put water to boil
---- added blended fresh pepper
----- added spices like oziza seed( not sure of the name though)
------ added blended locust bean and grounded crayfish
i allowed it to boil together
---------- added little palm oil and allowed to boil ( depends on your taste, don't like much of it)
---------- added my smoked fish ( my favorite, but you can put in all your meat, fish however you want it)
----------- added grated okro and vegetable(ugu)
----------- stir and allow steam for say 2 mins and mind you don't cover the pot, so that you have the green color come out and crunchy.

YorubaParapo:
Owu falls is the highest and one of the most spectacular natural waterfalls in West Africa, and is located in Ifelodun Local government area of Kwara State.

The waterfall stand as a majestic natural wonder nestled in the beautiful atural surroundings of Owa-Kajola, but can only be appreciated and promoted by exploring. The water curtain is 120m above stream level and cascades 330 feet down an escarpment with rocky outcrops to a pool of ice cold water below.

The water falls is surrounded with a beautiful natural ambience and hills which makes sightseeing a memorable experience. The waterfall is characterized with fall of ice cold water, beautiful rocky part and walk ways, and evergreen surrounding.

This beautiful vista offering surrounding is composed of stretch of mountains extending to Ekiti and Kogi States, which makes for an attractive environment to visitors and offers them opportunity to engage in the sighting of other creatures such as like birds, monkeys and reptiles. The natural flora and fauna have turned the falls into a nature seekers delight.

Source

You have some of my works there, no hard feelings though, i am the one in the single pictures and also the one with camera. The memories of that place still lingers on my mind, we are blessed but unfortunately not in any way has it been of use.

Managed to arrange this for sunday lunch

banmee:
Don't tell me that's a python. WTF?

absolutely, tastes so much like dry big fish,
a small bite fills the whole mouth,
very chewy.

hello people
it's being sometime now,
in my own view cooking has a lot to do with your mood, unfortunately i have lost that mood for some months now, eating out is the order of the day.
But i stumbled on this huge chunk of meat which i used to make a nice sauce and my favorite vegetable soup efo riro.
Anybody can guess what this is?

Ife has experienced enough bloodshed in the past 40 years, we do not pray this should be happening again, we know what the town should have been in terms of development, but due to bloody crisis like this, good things are averted. I cant forget during the Ife/Modakeke crisis of how a promising child a would be medical doctor of a family friend was killed, he was brought down from the medical students bus taking them to the teaching hospital for clinicals by the Ife youth warriors and till today his corpse was not seen, he was a modakeke, that was 1997, i also remember and even witnessed how two mobile police were caught by the warriors and they took them into the bush, they murdered. We used to live in horror back then. Ile Ife, hmmmmmm, just praying for my family there.

I am not going to glorify violence or the taking of life of another, that said. This goes out to all the fools and bastards that stereotype Yoruba as cowards, it so painful that you idiots always hide behind this platform ignorantly judging a whole nation, you live and sit in Lagos and the rotten knowledge of the Adulterated Yoruba culture you see there gives you a useless opinion of what you think Yorubas are. I am an Ekiti who was born in Ile Ife, grew up and lived my youthful life there before i moved after my university education for better fortune. At least i experienced two Yoruba/Hausa crisis during my time at home in Ife, one in 1989 and the other 1993/1994, same was the story. Ife people are not to be messed with, a town that boast of its own local militia where each member has one or more firearms. The history of the town has always been war, they are naturally fearless people, same for the modakekes,ijeshas, ekitis and ondo. For you buffoons that you should instead pray for peace, you are instigating, calling Yorubas slaves of Hausas, acting so idiotic and bitter as what you are known for every where on all social platforms, ask your people who are traders in Ile Ife, how they always tread softly and obey the laws of the land, they dont want to end up being used as food for the gods of the land. A lot of you are shameless, ungrateful and bitter set of animals.

Araromi is one of many communities in Ilaje that have coastline, you have enu ama, Zion Pepe, Ayetoro, etc

epistleNow:
From the new pictures taken by the guys, you can clearly see that the beach is looking far better than this video.

That dirty part is where the trade between the fish sellers and fishermen happens, also it was rain season, a lot of debris are washed ashore.

EgunMogaji:
I had no idea, but I do now. Thanks OP.

Seems dirty though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdNU0dLDvQ

I made that video in 2014 and uploaded to Youtube,
I also shared the story on Nairaland then, but it never made it far, not a lot of people read it. The video was made during the rain season and that part of the ocean is where the fishermen and fishsellers trade. Going further on the beach, you will see thr better part.

I think there is the account of the the three Ibadan Generals in which without their act of valor displayed at Oshogbo by defeating and repelling the Fulani back to Ilorin, by now the whole of Yorubaland would have been subjugated by them.

LordAdam7:
I put it to you that if the whole of Yoruba land was like the Sahel or Sahara, virtually 80% of Yorubas today would have been Muslims and the Oyo and Ife thrones would have been completely Islamized to become Emirates.

Just look at any 19th century map and consider the Golden century of Fulani dominance in what is now present Nigeria, Niger, and Chad. And how these extended to modern day Mali, Senegal, Gambia et cetera.

The topography was the same and the indigenous tribes fell to the Islamic Fulanis, Berbers, and Arabs.

Even Jerusalem fell to the Islamists. And the Pope launched at least two unsuccessful Crusades against the Muslims.

So don't give the Yorubas too much credit. I know the Yorubas are brave and formidable opponents, but if they couldn't win back Illorin then you should know that if all of Yorubaland had the topography of Illorin, a descendant of Dan Fodio would have dipped a Koran in the Atlantic ocean.

Afonja's betrayal to Yorubaland and his fellow countrymen was an indirect act of his rebellion to his King.

I'm not sure why you guys rever him that much (apart from his well-honed Machiavellian skills). He was a traitor to the sworn King of the Yoruba people, and single-handedly created the vermins that threatened Yoruba independence the most and almost revamped Yoruba land as we know it.

Even the woman that helped Ife win against their invaders deserves more commendation that Afonja.

Anyway, it is all a matter of perspective. And a people are free to treat their important figures how they deem fit.

But perhaps this tendency of the Yorubas to extol people who every neighbor deem to be repulsive is why Yorubas are seen as scheming, back-biting, and treacherous people.

I'm forced to say it's in your genes. It's how you guys see life. And it is why you guys would never be trusted.

And it is why regardless of how you paint AFONJA to be a hero (practically revising history), we'd always tag Yorubas as AFONJAs to mean a people who have no problem being treacherous.

It may seem harsh. But the truth is BITTER.

Awolowo could have reigned on Gowon to uphold the Aburi Accord that would have prevented the war and actually made Nigeria more prosperous. But he didn't and in fact made it possible for Gowon to win the war. This is despite a more astute Yoruba at the time Soyinka spending time in prison for the exact opposite thing. Today, no Yoruba would want to tag that singular action of Awolowo as a mistake or treachery of Southern interests.

Tinubu repeated same in 2015, essentially rebelling against the Afenifere (like Afonja against the Alaafin) and led Yorubaland to the pillaging of Northern interests and in treachery of Southern interests. Even today, while the same Afenifere he so despised are closing ranks to see that no Yoruba son suffers the Abiola treatment again, powerful Yoruba men (like in times of old) such as Fashola and Fayemi are actually helping the Fulanis do the opposite.

Is it just me, or don't u guys see history repeating itself.

You guys can make NL a pan-Yoruba forum and seek to police opinion and effectively remain in an echo chamber of "All Yorubas are Heroes," or "Yorubas aren't more treacherous than other ethnicities." But your actions prove otherwise.

Now as 2019 approaches, you guys have started courting your cousins and neighboring Southern groups because like again the Fulani monster than an AFONJA re-incarnate created has become too destructive, and you guys want to rein in for the good of Yorubaland and to protect Southern interests.

Exactly the same as a few centuries ago.

So maybe, we have to rest this issue of AFONJA and talk about something less divisive as the importance of Eko (Lagos) to the development of Nigeria (in fact, North, South Protectorate, and Colony of Lagos were joined in 1914 because the North Protectorate was bleeding money and the British wanted the South Protectorate and Colony of Lagos especially to provide the money to maintain their hold of the North). Apparently the feeding bottle system in Nigeria is exactly 112 years old.

And more importantly, how much it benefits the Yorubas (especially with their media behemoth) to rally around with other Southern interests to make fiscal restructuring happen before 2025.

Because as far as this AFONJA issue is concerned, there's no amount of lipstick that would make non-Yorubas see him as nothing more than what Johnson portrayed him as--a reckless, mindless power-crazed traitor who reared the beast that killed him and sacked his ancestral home.

-Lord

You have spoken well, truth is bitter.

This is highly educative, a great story on history. I have the book, but have not read it yet. However it is of high level stupidity and narrow mindedness for some to come here with tribal distractions. This thread looks too sophisticated for that, the richness in the history goes above all the useless abuse some fools are bringing, it is so beneath it. If you feel bad of the lack of a glorious past with your tribe, why cant you shut up and read/learn from this story of the people that have.

cococandy:
I can see the smoke.

You got sharp eyes, no patience to allow it cool down, ate it quickly, one of the few times that i could eat immediately the food i made myself without losing apetitte.

Efo riro with snail and smoked fish,
Goes pretty well with semovita.
Woke up hungry, got to fix this early su day morning sharp sharp. Finger burning hot.

Ignorant kids on internet should not be blamed for lack of knowledge, but the ones who rather will not allow them to seek and learn about knowledge. I did an extensive expedition in 2014, covering a lot of tourist sites and natural landmarks in the southwest in which Ilaje coastal side was part. I made a good story on the trip with pictures and video so people can learn about their environment, I put it on this platform, I was so surprised that with the level of education on the post, it never saw the light of the day, people rather prefer to push stories of no deep content to the front page, I later removed my post, it was too beautiful to be neglected. I got a blog to my name now, having followed the advice of the few people that read my stories and viewed the photos I attached to it on this platform. For those who do not know that there are beaches in Ondo State, check this video on YouTube: Araromi beach, Ilaje.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdNU0dLDvQ

haffaze777:
Point of correction gbedu is yoruba word as well as ajebo, gbedu is a particular drum in yorubaland.ever heard of dis idiom?Orin ki la nko si gbedu?translated as which song do we sing to gbedu?.ajebo is mixture of yoruba and English,it is ajebutter means someone who eat butter,pray tell me how it's pidgin

thank you my bro, that is what i quickly want to tell him that Gbedu is a type of big drum used for big festival in Yoruba land and mostly the 'OMO' tree is used in carving the drum, the yoruba proverb goes- 'opo igi ni nbe nigbo ki a to fi igi OMO gbe Gbedu' translated there are lots of tree in the forest, but only the Omo tree can be used to carve Gbedu drums.
Problem is that there are lots of youngsters on internet platforms that make all manners of statements without really knowing much, it makes people like me to want to keep off and rather watch.

dondokunseun:
YORUBA RONU


For how long are we going to remain a COWARD in our land? Many innocent lives are dying daily because of our cowardness.

HAUSAS and YORUBA fight in Lagos.

Imagin an insult in our land.

If in SOUTH EAST they have MILLITANT Speaking for their land,

If in NORTH EAST they have BOKO HARAM

If in NORTH WEST they have AREWA YOUTHS and LOCAL HUNTERS

If in SOUTH SOUTH they have MASSOB/IPOB speaking for them

Where is our OPC in SOUTH WEST.

Are they only in our land for election campaign or federal contract?

#whowillsaveus.

it baffles me too how we Yoruba as a people have allowed too much fun, partying and entertainment to have made us gone soft. History has it that our ancestors were fearless warriors, they were always waging wars and conquering territories over territories, a lot of nations paid royalties to them, from Nupe to Dahomey to Bariba, even the Ashanti used to call them to wage war in alliance, but today it is clear opposite. The truth is that a lot of the Yoruba people have gone soft, I can still point to few groups in the Yorubaland who are still born warriors, like the Ife youth fighters, Modakeke warriors, trust no Hausa or anybody can mess with them, even myself as an Ekiti I am not a coward, Ekitis and Ijesha are rarely cowards. I think the bottom line is that the Yoruba elders should go appease the spirit of the Alaafin Aole who placed a curse on the entire Yoruba race before he died due to the treachery of Afonja who sided with the Fulani to help secede from the already weak Oyo empire, Otherwise we could just continue to be clueless as a people and we continue to be point of ridicule by others. ****** for anyone who wants to read the details of the curse by Alaafin Aole on the entire Yoruba race, it is contained in Yorupedia, it is online for all to read.

[quote author=ODVanguard posvGB8NsDdTjI


I don't give a fvck about Yemi Alade and what she calls herself, you can claim her for yourself for all I can care. Anyone can claim their parent(s)' country of origin, that's nothing new. Angelique kidjo said it herself that she is Yoruba and half-Nigerian with a Yoruba mother from Iseyin, has aunts and extended family members there, with extensive roots at Abeokuta, Oyo and other parts of Yorubaland. Who the hell are you to dispute her? If you can't live with that here's a noose, you can help yourself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGB8NsDdTjI
I always love the way and manner the Benin Yorubas speak their own Yoruba, just too funny and kind of sharp.[/quote]