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I've seen and read different people using the word 'Omo-Ale' in this forum and believe me you have been using it wrongly.
Ọmọ in Yoruba means Child.
Ale means concubine or anyone you are in a sexual relationship with but not legally married to.
So literally, Ọmọ-Ale is the child from any relationship that the parents are not legally married.
It does not have anything to do with the tribe of the mother.
So if your mother is Hausa for instance and father is Yoruba. You are a true Ọmọ-ọkọ and a genuine Ọmọlúwàbí. Even the great Sango's mother is not a Yoruba woman but he was crown a king in Yoruba land.

A Yoruba Proverb says Ọmọ Ale ni ọmọ tí ó bá fi ọwọ juwe ilé bàbà ẹ.
Which means a bastard is the child that despise his father's house.

OgaSeun:
I've seen and read different people using the word 'Omo-Ale' in this forum and believe me you have been using it wrongly.
Ọmọ in Yoruba means Child.
Ale means concubine or anyone you are in a sexual relationship with but not legally married to.
So literally, Ọmọ-Ale is the child from any relationship that the parents are not legally married.
It does not have anything to do with the tribe of the mother.
So if your mother is Hausa for instance and father is Yoruba. You are a true Ọmọ-ọkọ and a genuine Ọmọlúwàbí. Even the great Sango's mother is not a Yoruba woman but he was crown a king in Yoruba land.

A Yoruba Proverb says Ọmọ Ale ni ọmọ tí ó bá fi ọwọ juwe ilé bàbà ẹ.
Which means a bastard is the child that despise his father's house.

Omo ale literally means a child that was fathered by a concubine. However, that meaning has expanded over time to include any child whose behavior/character is questionable and different from the father/father's. Hence the saying that "omo ale lo n fowo osi juwe Ile baba re" (a bastard is a child that points at the father's house with the left hand- the left hand here signifies disrespect) ...an omo oko will respectfully point to his father's house using his right hand. In other words, any act of disrespect, animosity, disdain towards one's father's kinsmen makes one a confirmed omo ale

Houseontherock1:
Omo ale literally means a child that was fathered by a concubine. However, that meaning has expanded over time to include any child whose behavior/character is questionable and different from the father/father's. Hence the saying that "omo ale lol n fowo osi juwe Ile baba re" (a bastard is a child that points at the father's house with the left hand)...an omo ok will respectfully point to his father's house using his right hand. In other words, any act of disrespect, animosity, disdain towards one's father's kinsmen makes one a confirmed omo ale

Wow. You nailed it better.

OgaSeun:
I've seen and read different people using the word 'Omo-Ale' in this forum and believe me you have been using it wrongly.
Ọmọ in Yoruba means Child.
Ale means concubine or anyone you are in a sexual relationship with but not legally married to.
So literally, Ọmọ-Ale is the child from any relationship that the parents are not legally married.
It does not have anything to do with the tribe of the mother.
So if your mother is Hausa for instance and father is Yoruba. You are a true Ọmọ-ọkọ and a genuine Ọmọlúwàbí. Even the great Sango's mother is not a Yoruba woman but he was crown a king in Yoruba land.

A Yoruba Proverb says Ọmọ Ale ni ọmọ tí ó bá fi ọwọ juwe ilé bàbà ẹ.
Which means a bastard is the child that despise his father's house.

that not the meaning of omo ale. an omo ale is a child born by a woman who goes outside her marriage to have a child with a different man. woman can not go out of her marriage, to have a child for another. their children is considered as omo ale


a child from a woman from a different tribe is not an omo ale


a child from a man concubine is not consider an omo ale

OgaSeun:
I've seen and read different people using the word 'Omo-Ale' in this forum and believe me you have been using it wrongly.
Ọmọ in Yoruba means Child.
Ale means concubine or anyone you are in a sexual relationship with but not legally married to.
So literally, Ọmọ-Ale is the child from any relationship that the parents are not legally married.
It does not have anything to do with the tribe of the mother.
So if your mother is Hausa for instance and father is Yoruba. You are a true Ọmọ-ọkọ and a genuine Ọmọlúwàbí. Even the great Sango's mother is not a Yoruba woman but he was crown a king in Yoruba land.

A Yoruba Proverb says Ọmọ Ale ni ọmọ tí ó bá fi ọwọ juwe ilé bàbà ẹ.
Which means a bastard is the child that despise his father's house.

I have one question.
Is Sango a mythical being or a real person? Will like to know

Houseontherock1:
Omo ale literally means a child that was fathered by a concubine. However, that meaning has expanded over time to include any child whose behavior/character is questionable and different from the father/father's. Hence the saying that "omo ale lo n fowo osi juwe Ile baba re" (a bastard is a child that points at the father's house with the left hand- the left hand here signifies disrespect) ...an omo oko will respectfully point to his father's house using his right hand. In other words, any act of disrespect, animosity, disdain towards one's father's kinsmen makes one a confirmed omo ale

it does not men a concubine, a man is allow to have many wives. a child from a man concubine are not omo ale.

seeyounow:
it does not men a concubine, a man is allow to have many wives. a child from a man concubine are not omo ale.

Ale in Yoruba is concubine. Oko is husband. Omo ale is a child fathered by the woman's concubine as any child fathered by the man is regarded as "omo oko" back then, especially due to the patriarchal culture and the men's promiscuity and its acceptability. For the male concubine, the child born to him (was) not omo ale, but in the woman's house, the child born to an ale is omo ale, a bastard. However, civilisation, education and other forms of development has made legal marriage more popular which means the man's child born outside wedlock is also referred to as "omo ale" these days. Also, the word Omo ale is used for any child that behaves like one!

GorillaApp:
I have one question.
Is Sango a mythical being or a real person? Will like to know

He is a man born of a woman.

seeyounow:
that not the meaning of omo ale. an omo ale is a child born by a woman who goes outside her marriage to have a child with a different man. woman can not go out of her marriage, to have a child for another. their children is considered as omo ale


a child from a woman from a different tribe is not an omo ale


a child from a man concubine is not consider an omo ale

He is.
Except if the man ends up marrying the concubine