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Itsekiri and Olukumi Form Alliance, Share History, and Celebrate Cultural Exchange

Discover the two Yoruba groups in Delta State, uniting to strengthen bonds through shared heritage and cultural collaboration.

ActressAbimbola:
Because Igbos are uniting with their kits and kins from Rivers, Delta, Benue and Edo. Is alright.

hisexcellency34:
Olukumi
Lukumi Yoruba.
Is that not Reno Omockery's family?

Goodvibes007:
Reno is Itsekiri. He just calls Yorubas Olukumi as that's what they call them in the Delta area. In Benin Republic, they are called Anago.
In Togo, they are called Ife Ana.
In Sierra Leone/Gambia, they call them Aku people.

ActressAbimbola:
Because Igbos are uniting with their kits and kins from Rivers, Delta, Benue and Edo. Is alright.

Goodvibes007:
Reno is Itsekiri. He just calls Yorubas Olukumi as that's what they call them in the Delta area. In Benin Republic, they are called Anago.
In Togo, they are called Ife Ana.
In Sierra Leone/Gambia, they call them Aku people.

Goodvibes007:
This is history in the making. Kudos to everyone that made this happen.

Gustavowhite:
The Olukumi shit can’t work,they are already acculturated by their Igbo neigbours and remember their land is not contigous to Yoruba land,except Yoruba will move them from their ancestral land and near to Yorubaland

Slytiger:
More photos.

Gustavowhite:
The Olukumi shit can’t work,they are already acculturated by their Igbo neigbours and remember their land is not contigous to Yoruba land,except Yoruba will move them from their ancestral land and near to Yorubaland

Gustavowhite:
Omokery is Urhobo though

Zionmdde:
Don't really like doing this but let me ask
Isinyemeze and atuwatse from delta are from yoruba groups
But ifeanyi from delta and amaechi from rivers are not from Igbo groups.

Hope you can help me explain better though

Gustavowhite:
Omokery is Urhobo though

Gustavowhite:
The Olukumi shit can’t work,they are already acculturated by their Igbo neigbours and remember their land is not contigous to Yoruba land,except Yoruba will move them from their ancestral land and near to Yorubaland

DeLaRue:
Yorubas are not Olukunmi because 'that's what they call them in Delta'.

As a word, Olukunmi has been part of the Yoruba lexicon from time immemorial.

It means My Friend.

In places like Owo, and I think may be Okitipupa, in Ondo State and a few other places, till today, you refer to your friend as Olukunmi. People from these places don't instinctively use 'ore' as those from Oyo, Lagos, Ekiti etc do.

It is no coincidence that the Itshekiri and the Olukumi's migration from Yoruba land originated from or passed through Owo.