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Mo ti se gbogbo nkan ti e fe ki n se. Oku s'owo yin.

Aareonakakanfo:
Hahahaha funny enough, i didn't know that.I actually think i sound young.How will an old man who sits in the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo be talking about Calliou and using gifs .

As per the Yoruba hour, i no know ooo.I love the ideas you came up with.we should keep advertising it on every page so people won't forget.We should always ask people to suggest topics

Grandpa, ko s'arigbo ni ghana. Papa youngy.

As for the Yoruba hour.... mo fi si owo eyin okunrin.

quimicababes:
I won't say so entirely.I was reading somewhere that Yorubas were sent to Bahamas but they hardly held onto their culture...so you won't find remnants of it surviving like how you did in terms of Trinidad e.g Shango Baptist faith.Trinidad case is because majority of the Yorubas came as indentured laborers in the 1800s...so I guess that's why certain aspects of their culture was able to survive here.

Maybe it's time we revive it!

The cultural identity of people living in the Bahamas prior to the adoption of the nation-state identity was primarily African or European. The Yoruba in the Bahamas identified with their Yoruba cultural heritage. The same was true for the Kongos. This extended into the twentieth century, as Dr Cleveland W. Eneas documents in his autobiography, “Bain Town”.


http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/2010/02/the-bahamas-dirty-little-secret-19523.html

Oriki Ile Ekiti


Yes!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q598pQk5bvI

Who got me started on Oriki......I can't sop

Awori's Oriki starts @ 5:42


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlvSJ2dc8nY

quimicababes:
It's not exactly a Yoruba department.It's a language institute and Yoruba is the only African language they offer there.I went to their open house this year....it was really nice.I thoroughly enjoyed the Yoruba,Japan and German offerings .I know they were hoping to upgrade it to a diploma but only time go tell.The Dean for UWI Humanities and Education Faculty here is Yoruba....I always thought he was Trini btw.

Wow...I always wonder how such thing starts. Yorubas weren't the earliest or latest slaves to arrive in the new world, yet our culture persisted. We're too stubborn. Even moi sef, in as much as I'm Americanized, I can't let go of my Yorubaness. It's an addiction.

When Eledumare created Yorubas, he used permanent marker to ensure that we don't lose our identity.

Aareonakakanfo:
Oh yeah i made a mistake with the proverb part,that's a good addition.I no be grandpa ooo. ma lo go oo Reminds me of someone who said he used to think i'm one of those old men who sits down with the Alaafin of Oyo in his palace with an abeti aja cap on I'm a young man but still i don't think anyone here is below 20

lmaoooo I swear that accurately describes you anytime I see your post.

Seriously, you and superstar1 needa do something about Yoruba hour. I'll be highly disappointed if we neglect it.