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Raf4:
Soon you people will say aṣọ-ẹbi isn't Yoruba culture, because you people are also doing aso-ebi in alaigbo now. Ditto party jollof rice.

They have started with even Gele and Aso-ebi

Very bad jealous people

You are a very talented upcoming comedian

viodemus:
You are mistaken.

It is there. But the Brazilians adopted the yoruba culture because it was the wave at the time. And the blacks there wanted to have some culture to showcase as their own. In the 1800s, most Brazilians felt like if only they can get to Lagos, their slavery will be over.

Please, don't think am tarnishing the yoruba contribution to Brazil. I don't have time for that, but facts are facts. For the longest, Lagos was the go to for any Brazilians that can stowaway in a ship that was run by black shipping captains.

Shikena:
You are a very talented upcoming comedian

Yes, so many misinterpreted history.

Mandate1:
moi moi and akara are not autochthonous to the Yorubas, it's a food belonging to all Southern Nigerians. When you eat Moimoi and akara prepared by an igbo person you won't say this again.

This issue is not whether or not anyone can prepare a delicious moimoi or akara.

DamnnNiggarr:


Egwusi and akara are of the Igbo tribe.

Moi moi is a typical Yoruba food.

What the hell is ewgusi? You guys don't even understand your own language.

Egusi is a Yoruba word that the ibos have now borrowed/loaned.

Its alright to agree that Yoruba has the worst menu in Nigeria.

Raskimonojendor:
Same Akara that's called a Yoruba food in Brazil.

Do you mind these kids?
In Seriealeone the Yoruba tribe are descendants of slaves from USA . They call moinmoin the two names Yoruba call it. Moinmoin and Olele. They call it their forefathers food. Akara is Akara Apoti is Apoti ehinkule is still the same.

Our government failed in teaching kids history and culture.

Sad

aljharem:
It is not southern Nigerian. You adopted it !!! Nothing wrong with that.

adopted from who?

aljharem:
The south does not favour Melon and bean growth so where did you find the crops to make this food ?

What is the meaning of Egusi in Igbo or Akara

Why are igbo decent slaves not making in Jamaica but Yoruba desents make it whereever they go ?

Mkpụrụ egwusi (melon seeds) is a typical Igbo soup thickener, you guys should stop this useless dragging on social media.

Akara (bean cake) is a typical Igbo street food.

T[b]he fruit pulp of these cultivars is too bitter for human consumption. In West Africa they are called ‘egusi’, derived from the Yoruba language; in Wolof language (Senegal) they are called ‘beref’. In the Kalahari region, the seeds are considered a delicacy.

Correct citation of this article:
van der Vossen, H.A.M. & Denton, O.A. & El Tahir, I.M., 2004.[/b]

http://database.prota.org/PROTAhtml/Citrullus%20lanatus_En.htm

Egusi is a recent Igbo food

Tranquillity360:
I can't eat yoruba food.




No offense intended

That’s your own headache. Go and hug a working transformer or jump into the Atlantic

Raskimonojendor:
What the hell is ewgusi? You guys don't even understand your own language.

Egusi is a Yoruba word that the ibos have now borrowed/loaned.

That's how it's pronounced.

Just like Enugu is pronounced Enugwu.

that's how we're able to identify foreigners when they speak.

AuthorMan:
Do you mind these kids?
In Seriealeone the Yoruba tribe are descendants of slaves from USA . They call moinmoin the two names Yoruba call it. Moinmoin and Olele. They call it their forefathers food. Akara is Akara Apoti is Apoti ehinkule is still the same.

Our government failed in teaching kids history and culture.

Sad

A few Ibos understand that egunsi is Yoruba including the Igbo dictionary I posted above.

Alot are just more ignorant than the enlightened ones..

DamnnNiggarr:
That's how it's pronounced.

Just like Enugu is pronounced Enugwu.

that's how we're able to identify foreigners when they speak.

Look at this 👇

That's from an Igbo dictionary.

Loan word
Yor: Yoruba - "egusi"


I understand your variance as egwusi but it's still a word loaned from the Yoruba language.

DamnnNiggarr:
Mkpụrụ egwusi (melon seeds) is a typical Igbo soup thickener, you guys should stop this useless dragging on social media.

Akara (bean cake) is a typical Igbo street food.

Wrong it was introduced to Igbos by yorubas thanks to Lagos.

Tuwo Shinkafa is a yoruba street food but was introduced by Hausas

For those that do research and PHD students. I am such you know that the most accurate references are Journals citations


The Egusi type is a non-hard-coat form of L.
siceraria mainly cultivated for the use of its seeds. Egusi
(in Yoruba language) refers to a group of cucurbit species
that produce protein and oil rich seeds

by E. G. Achigan-Dako

http://www.springerlink.com/content/2014006j826u4185/fulltext.pdf

Tranquillity360:
I can't eat yoruba food.




No offense intended

We can't eat yours too. No offense intended

DamnnNiggarr:
Mkpụrụ egwusi (melon seeds) is a typical Igbo soup thickener, you guys should stop this useless dragging on social media.

Akara (bean cake) is a typical Igbo street food.

Even your igbo dictionary wrote it is a yoruba food. So why are you arguing

LooneyLester:
If you chop Yoruba food finish, you fit kys because of all the yama yama them chuk for the food

Exactly the way you cook

Those kids can't handle general history, talk less of their own humbling history. Their parents did a number on their minds from day 1 of their existence

AuthorMan:
Do you mind these kids?
In Seriealeone the Yoruba tribe are descendants of slaves from USA . They call moinmoin the two names Yoruba call it. Moinmoin and Olele. They call it their forefathers food. Akara is Akara Apoti is Apoti ehinkule is still the same.

Our government failed in teaching kids history and culture.

Sad

Indeed everywhere stew😁

On-farm yield potential of local seed watermelon landraces under heat-and drought-prone conditions in Mali

by
AD NANTOUMÉ, JL CHRISTIANSEN

Cucurbit species grown for their seed, including seed-type watermelons, are in several
West African countries popularly called egusi melons. The name originates from the Yoruba
language spoken in Nigeria, Benin and Togo

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8433793

this people are not yoruba or Nigerians but from other countries

viodemus:
Nothing wey we no go hear.

moi moi, akara, yoruba food? Igbos, they even claim corn and coconut.

out of that whole food, amala is the only yoruba food. Then soup with stew is a mostly yoruba thing.

No wonder many of them believe Tinubu invented and patented Lagos.

soon, before we know it, they might say they invented the air we breathe. Na wa o.

So sorry about your unenlightened brain

Raskimonojendor:
Look at this 👇

That's from an Igbo dictionary.

Loan word
Yor: Yoruba - "egusi"

if you're in Igbo land or trying to pronounce Igbo word in an Igbo dominated area, you see those words that end with "gu" try to pronounce them as "gwu" in order not to appear like a novice.

Tranquillity360:
I can't eat yoruba food.




No offense intended

You can't even afford Yoruba food. Yoruba foods are the healthiest and most expensive.
Elubo is more expensive than semo, wheat, rice (both local and imported).

DamnnNiggarr:
if you're in Igbo land or trying to pronounce Igbo word in an Igbo dominated area, you see those words that end with "gu" try to pronounce them as "gwu" in order not to appear like a novice.

Nothing wrong with the pronunciation but the food is of Yoruba origin. Melon and bean does not grow in the south not to talk of Igbo land.

No way you guys had access to it

Shikena:
What is your point? I stayed in Salvador, Bahia and I am telling you what I saw and was told. If Yoruba land was just a staging area, how come I saw houses named after Yoruba towns and families in Salvador? How come Yoruba culture was strongly preserved including folk songs and even religion? Why would slaves that were merely staged in Yorubaland be more interested in promoting Yoruba culture?

Abeg go and study more. Is not a secret.
Brazil has the largest population of blacks outside of Africa. Yes, yoruba culture has a head start, because it was the go to place for brazilian slaves. I also stayed in Brazil, I lived there, not visit. I saw when many of them were dumbfounded that their dna is not tracing back to yoruba like they thought. All their life, they have been told of yoruba and yoruba culture.

My hypothesis on how they came to claim yoruba culture, is that many of the ship captains, who were the big boys amongst slaves in those times, were very influential in spreading the yoruba culture there. And then during their wars, the colonials took some Africans especially the Brazilians back there to go fight. After the war, those ones help spread the yoruba ministry again.

The whites of Brazil couldn't tell the blacks they were lost people like the Americans. By the way, about 25% of American slaves, were taken from Brazil. Brazil was the staging ground for the Mexican, American, etc. slaves. It was from Brazil that they dispatched slaves all over the Americas in the 1600s, and 1700s.

The Brazilians just held on to what they know, and it was mostly because they could get to Lagos, Nigeria. The fact is, over 5 or more million of yorubas today, came from Brazil. It was even because of the Brazilian model that American govt decided to send some African Americans to current day Liberia; but that did not translate in the African American communities like the Brazilians. Am sure if it did, the current black Americans would have been saying they all came from liberia.

DamnnNiggarr:
if you're in Igbo land or trying to pronounce Igbo word in an Igbo dominated area, you see those words that end with "gu" try to pronounce them as "gwu" in order not to appear like a novice.

I understand that they put "W" in some words for ease of pronunciation.

aljharem:
Even your igbo dictionary wrote it is a yoruba food. So why are you arguing

So, are you not seeing "var" variation: egwusi?
so why are you arguing?

I enjoy amala with with gbegiri mixed that traditional draw soup used to eat amala.
The one I will like to eat is egusi ijebu, heard it's delicious. Whenever I go to yorubaland, I will ask of it. Funny enough I have been to ijebu ode twice but didn't hear of the soup then.

Raf4:
You can't even afford Yoruba food. Yoruba foods are the healthiest and most expensive.
Elubo is more expensive than semo, wheat, rice (both local and imported).

Even their Garri is of yoruba origin. The difference is their own is fried with Palm oil. There is no ground nut in the south so they reverted to Palm oil

Kpekere