₦airaland Forum

MinorityTribe1:
Thank God i am not a Yoruba man o. Yorubas are the perfect slaves, it is deep rooted in their blood and disguised as respect for the elderly. It just happens that the elderly are the richest and powerful ones, If he was a much younger wealthy person he would still do the same. Yorubas have been suffering from slavery long before the Whites came to colonize us, Virtually every tribe including theirs have enslaved them in the past. I will only carry bags from my parents or if it is obvious to everyone that you are struggling with heavy bags. Apart from that you can even fire me for not bending to greet you or carrying your weightless handbags. This is why i have problem with Yorubas superiors. They attached too much relevance to themselves and demand respects as if they eat it.

this one has seen opportunity to attack the yoruba nation. jobless lot

Kgdavid:
What does it matter? The whole classification system itself is arbitrary.

Are "white people" realy white? some only whitish, others are pink and a few could be best described as gray. at times you can't really tell the difference between white people and arabs going by skin color alone...so why is this an issue that anyone should get worked up over?

what is this?


pink o, red o ...fact is race is not by skin tone.

a white man doesn't mean white skin like snow. .. neither does black man mean black like charcoal. to you Chinese and europeans are all the same I guess

Nigerians and ignorance..smh

oboy3:
it's Yoruba mentality, they love it too much, I remember the secondary school years, the owner of the school is an igbo woman, she instructed us to always call all female staff "Madam" while the male are "Sir"
fast-forward to the day of waec, one Yoruba external invigilator came,somebody tried to call her attention "Madam",she then became furious cursing in Yoruba, blah blah blah, call me mummy not madam, I am old enough to be ur mother blah blah blah, I am not igbo etc, it was another thing that day, For me I can't ever call anyone who is not my mother Mummy, it doesn't make sense

Even the primary I went a deeper woman owns it, I never really did wrap my head around why we called her "School mummy"

like somebody said, salutation is never love, Yoruba think that lying in the mud to greet somebody is respect,i am sorry to burst your bubble, it's not

you can force a child who hates you to prostrate to you but fact is he will still hate u afterwards

lmao. it's because in Yoruba language "madam" and mummy are called with the same word "Iya"

I dont get why she took offense by being called "madam" tho ..some people have serious problems. .it's not a yoruba thing

moscobabs:
Just resumed my new office last week o.

My first time of working with White man sa (Lebanese) , The man is free and humble in fact everybody loves him, among other Lebanese my Boss is jovial, free and hardworking man.

He has worked in 5 African countries so he understands Africa and her culture very well.

The real story....

I resumed very early this morning and I decided to wait in front of office before I start today's activities when I saw my boss coming down from his Truck carrying his bag , as a young Yoruba man that comes from good background ..lol So I ran to him and say Good morning sir (bend my head) and I stretch my hand to collect his bag.

The man who has never disrespect me like that before shouted on me!!

Who owns the bag? he asked

repeat!!!! who owns the bag moscobabs?

Me: You sir!!!! I replied..

if it's me "why should u collect it from me?

Me: I just wanted to help u sir.

Y? ..... I couldn't respond .

I say why? ...meet me in office now!!!! he commanded .

We entered his office and he sat me down

moscobabs, You were employed as so so so in this company not to carry bag, the bag belongs to me and I must carry it, also you always bend whenever you greet me...please its not necessary, in fact its not official, I just opportune to be your boss, you are married as I , You are graduate although you are younger than me but you have to attach respect to yourself.

I was like " ki la gbe, ki la ju" but I replied him by saying ....

Sir, I am african we have cultures and Traditions and parts of these is what I did, We respect our elders and seniors that's why we bend or prostrate while greeting and we do help them carry their loads even if we carry ours too.

And he responded with smiles...No problem But when next you greet me in such an embarrassing way or try to collect my bag I won't think twice before I sack you!!!

I beg o Is anything wrong in what I did?

Is there any other reason for his reaction?

The man just dey look me somehow since morning

yorubas misunderstanding yoruba culture.

that's not culture but eye service. .your boss is right to sack you once you try taking his bag again. .. the bending head to greet is ok!


and did you just call a Lebanese man white WTF!

DrayZee:
Because the South are more divided and diverse than the North.

ethnically, and by origin the north is more diverse

most of the south have a common origin

I still wonder why southerners cannot just stick together

LecciGucci:
U neva commit crime before..
All those browsing cheat u use to do..
Do u know is a serious crime .

If u are sinless be d first to cast the stone.

oga how is using browsing cheat a criminal offense? I don't know, inform me please with the legal implications and possibly penalty


btw You don't know me, you don't know if I use browsing cheat or not

excuse me, if we all let crimes fly because we have committed offenses of our own then we will be living in anarchy and chaos. .. if you are a loyal citizen you should cast the stone and be ready to pay for your own offenses

LecciGucci:
U people can make the job eazy for police na. Go and arrest her na.. olori nla dem!

but she committed a crime right?

that's nice. I'm also planning on locating the house my family progenitor came from in Egbe before migrating to our hometown (the place we claim now)


one should strive to trace his ancestry as far back as possible

Vorpal:
@Mr previous post. God did not die for anybody, His son did.

@Ooni, can you please stop speaking from both sides of the mouth like a confused ignorant uneducated fellow? Supposed leader of the Yoruba people? I rather he sticks to his Ife kingdom.

Western folks drew lessons from deities you worshipped and yet they enslaved your black asses and attained civilization before you all?

Am glad to be Ijebu. The Awujale utters no such nonsense.

what are you saying gangan?

Collins0609:
Coming from d Afonja republic.its d same with Afonja's movies. Afonja and superstitions are like 5 and 6

ode. Igbos have what is called "chi"
it's really amazing how igbos like mocking yorubas for what they are guilty of things that mocking isn't even called for

Ubenedictus:
lol, i think it is d other way round, i also think aiyelala is yoruba or ijaw or another riverine tribe just adopted in benin for it oath potency. olukun on the otherhand i disagree on the olokun issue, olokun is among d original benin patheon, feature prominently in d creation myth and tied to every cultural fibre. besides i'm suprised u dont seem to notice d fact that d yoruba patheon actually adopted various dieties.

same way Osun (osanyin) appears prominently in bini culture. bini aren't known to be philosophical. the fact that Olokun is not a bini word sells you out

I'm done here tho. . it's completely a waste of time to argue olokun with anybody


prove yoruba adopted deities

onatisi:
There is nothing wrong with you. You are blessed with special talent and powers. Spirituality has blinded many ppl reasons and they tend to see everything as devilish,what you should do is to try to understand your powers and master it.

religion has blinded people...not spirituality

foolish op. he said deities...never the word "idols". Intelligent people should know that nobody worships idols. .idols are mere representative imageries to concentrate one's spiritual force

your Jehovah is a deity fyi

Aigbofa:
You have a problem and thank God you are not the Ooni. Thank God you are not in any position of power. People like you are the reason why Africa is full of power drunk despots.

power? this is not about power but duty. wait! do you think Ooni or any traditional monarch in Nigeria is in a position of constitutional power? their duty is to maintain the culture, history and traditions of their people. ..if a person cnt do this simple but difficult task then such person isn't fit to be a traditional monarch. ..not power

Aigbofa:
Absolute bunkum, he doesn't have to be haughty and power drunk to be a good Ooni, besides he didn't do anything wrong.

sharrap. what ooni says "Jesus is my father" and goes around visiting people like obafemi martins and kwam1

rather than tell us more about the history of ife and the 201 Gods of the city. ..talk about the writing system of Oluorogbo he is talking about ack of Noah, tower of babel WTF!

ceasare:
This current Ooni is everything an ooniorisa shouldn't be!
Jumping all over d place.d stool is a sacrilegious stool.
Everybody seeks d ooni's attention not d other way round.
The Yoruba adage that says " Atari ajanaku kii se eru omole"
Literarily means " the weight of leadership is not an exclusive preserve of an infant"
Are not wrong truly d Ooni is an infant! He should ask awujale how
He commands respect even at a young age when he ascends the stool
Of his ancestors.soonest this guy will be paying homage to common baale
In Ikirun if care is not taken.his handlers should enlighten him.the Ooni stool
Is above all pettiness.

My thought btw what do I know?!

You've said well. the guy doesn't know anything about what it takes to be Ooni

he's also very confused, mixing Christianity with Isese smh
I blame the elders of Ife and palace chiefs for not properly tutoring him before his coronation... look at how long the oba of Benin went through rites training him for the throne immediately his father died. .
how do you expect people not to think oba of Benin is higher than ooni when the kingmakers put unserious people on the throne

Antoeni:
Who killed Bola ige? D big issue,

basingstoke:
it is only the Oba of Benin that has that status

actually the Ooni is seen as a Deity. . but as Asa ti baje tan...things are rogue now

ProudArewa:
we are stacked with poverty, diseases, illiteracy and yet you have neva heard of any region in the north complaining of underdevelopment because we are always contended wit what we have.....but with all ur education we still dominate ur people politically, we dominte the judiciary, not to talk of the military.......:-D;-(;-(;-( guy if na me be you i for don troway my certificate

political domination with poverty, under development, diseases etc
Nigerians lack priority sha

Rossikk:
If Yorubas attack Hausas in Lagos and leave the Igbos alone, does that mean that Yorubas and Igbos are one ethnic group?

and when have yorubas attacked hausas excluding retaliation?

ProudArewa:
Nice post@ Reno.....what is killing the southeners in dis country is dia hatred towards dae north. And the more dey hate, the more we are politically uplifted by God!

politically uplifted by God but stacked full with poverty, diseases, illiteracy, violence


be letting your so called northern elders ruin your lives

AkinPhysicist:
Yorubas and brain power like hot Agege bread and butter

I prefer it with Ewagoyin

Ubenedictus:
Have u ever wondered y u guys have 2 gods in d sea? yemoja and olokun? something should have told u that u guys adopted one of them. besides olokun in beni is a man, and features prominently in d creation myth, olokun for u guys is someones wife. think my dear.

Yemoja is actually a river goddess associated with the Ogun river and mother of other river goddesses. I don't know her oriki and even some time in the past I thought her a sea goddess but I've been told by babalawos that she is not the sea goddess but all waters used for domestic use and fishing which the Ogun river was used for extensively by the Oyo Empire

whatever Olokun is in Benin doesn't mean anything, you guys learned about Olokun from Ilaje
Ilaje people made a lot of the Oba's mysticism, which includes Aiyelala

themosthigh:
It is a pity the sword of Othman Dan fodio did not touch and conquer the Benin kingdom but I am very sure that it would soon be a fief of sokoto because only through this meanss will the barbaric customs of the southerners be subjugated and peace spread across the federation.

sokoto that will soon fall to boko haram abi is it ISWA

thesicilian:
That Sultan of Sokoto is one of my most respected traditional rulers in this country, in short, the most respected after the Oba of Benin. Always easy going, hardly tribalistic and peace loving. I wish all Nigerian leaders were like him.

after the late oba Erediauwa you mean.

ImperialYoruba:
Please, analyze critically if you are looking for truth. I cannot deny you the right to express your emotions and passions but try not to inject it insultingly and offend senses.

I believe I am open to read and understand your personal opinion, but I cant accomodate attempts to interprete the author under a shade of biases.

but you saw that was the main point of the screen shot? that because yorubas have concepts of repentance, sanctification and justification which true black Africans are not capable of having, being savage, therefore yoruba are not true Africans but descended from Semites

did you not get that from the screen shot. .or I'm reading something else?

Kingstone32:
The myth abt the bats circling the oba palace in the daytime is very true. I've witness it more than once and i was amazed and spellbound.

There's nothing magical about that.

my secondary school - Kings college lagos had two trees that bats nested in and the bats were always circling the entire school compound.

adeboizy11:
OK. We don hear. Sha do d needful by sending d head of ur predecessor to "ile-ife" real quick for the right thing.

I don't think Ife would still know what to do with the head. .. that's a tradition that ended in 1888.. no point bringing back such unnecessary tradition

Daniel1990:
The problem is the sincerity of the southwest_alignment with the Yorubas always backfire_ it happened during the precursor to the civil war_Awolowo agreed to pull out of the federation once Ojukwo declare secession. Awolowo later dashed that trust_re-aligned with the north and unleashed terror on the East. Awo even became the giant gear that propelled the ship of that infamous genocide. Caution has to be taken in any move toward united south_throwing caution to the wind could be a deadly fang of a cobra!

There could even be a grand conspiracy in this call for united south.

common sense would have told ojukwu that Awolowo didn't have the power to declare Oduduwa republic in 1967.... Awolowo expressed intentions to ally with the East all through his political career but the east was feeling too big and preferred the north for their numbers

Obijulius:
A pact with a Yoruba man is a pact with disaster.

A colleague in the office told me that the Yoruba language has dual interpretation of every word / phrase- and that the idea is to ensure that they can take any side as long as it favors them.

Yorubas deserve to remain with their eternal allies the North. Cursed

no ethnic group has been against the north more than Yoruba. Igbos allied with the north for all elections before 2003...1999 PDP was actually an alliance of east and north again, Igbo men like Alex Ekwueme, Akadigbo and Anyim Pius Anyim were powerful igbo men that rallied support for Obasanjo who yorubas didn't want

so shut up. you igbos are the cause of all Nigerian problems. . from military coup to civil war to hate for everybody. .to political amateurism

Olu317:
Yoruba names being called at one time was “USERE- MAGBO. Baba Yemi Elebuibon is still alive to tell you more on Yoruba history

Where did you hear from Baba Elebuibon that oduduwa came from the middle east? I will like to read/hear his own words


PS. Oseremagbo is Obatala

ImperialYoruba:
Who created this thread? This is great service but im baffled scholars are not already congregated here to discuss the topic.

On my own Im finding materials on this subject online and indeed gaining new knowledge.

The screen shot here calls Africans savages incapable of having concepts of repentance, sanctification, justification


do you really believe this?