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shymexx: ^^^Go to bed and strategize on how to break the yoke of endless slavery that was imposed on your people by the culturally inferior fulani through jihad!! Your brain cells are obviously blinkered!!

THE HISTORY OF THE YORUBAS

From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate

BY

The REV. SAMUEL JOHNSON

Pastor of Oyo

EDITED BY

DR. O. JOHNSON, Lagos

C.M.S. (NIGERIA) BOOKSHOPS LAGOS

First published 1921

...

§1. INTRODUCTION

The Yoruba country lies to the immediate West of the River Niger (below the confluence) and South of the Quorra {i.e., the Western branch of the same River above the confluence), having Dahomey on the West, and the Bight of Benin to the South. It is roughly speaking between latitude 6° and 9° North, and longitude 2° 30' and 6° 30' East.

The country was probably first known to Europe from the North, through the explorers of Northern and Central Africa, for in old records the Hausa and Fulani names are used for the country and its capital ; thus we see in Webster's Gazetteer " Yarriba," West Africa, East of Dahomey, area 70,000 sq. miles, population two millions, capital Katunga. These are the Hausa terms for Yoruba and for Oyo.

alj harem: I think I disagree with you in that aspect. I also don't think it is good to make misinforming comments. In as much as it is your opinion, we need to take into consideration how you minds are taking some of this post we write for example the OP is a clear example of misinformation by another party.

Yoruba language is spoken in many countries and indeed Yoruba language is indigenous to many countries as well.

Yoruba language is a tree on his own aka Yoruboid and Nago. To the extent that the Ga tribe of Ghana ( a very small ethnic group) speak a yoruba dialect and that is why YORUBAS and Hausas were two of the first african migrants to trade in Ghana due to the little or no language barrier for some.

Togo is another country where yoruba is spoken there. Places like Plateau Region, Ogou and Est-Mono prefectures; Centrale Region and Tchamba Prefecture. This is a third of the country so lets get our facts right.

Disporians you mention are not disporians. Now what is the meaning of dispora and meaning of indigenous ?

When a significant amount of people practise, speak and mediate on a culture in the country they call home all their lifes ?, you still call them disporians ? when history is there for us to see

splashbaby: So what are the ancestral link of the IGBO minas to the IGBOs in terms of culture, way of life, language, Religion and myth. You are the only historian so far developing this fatansy without proves.

Abagworo: Even though the OP's assertions are hilarious, I'd like to make a little serious contribution. Like I've always written in the culture section, there was nothing like Igbo, Ijaw or Yoruba ethnic identity until very recently. Most of these people consist of different peoples that were living in distinct clans that their origins varied. Take the Anioma area for instance, we had people living side by side who knew their ancestory from present day Igala, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo etc but when it was made compulsory to have an ethnic affiliation, they happened to fall into the Igbo fold because majority spoke Igbo as 1st or 2nd language. It happened all across Southern Nigeria where Whitemen would notice language similarities and map it as one ethnic group and then give it a name.

Abagworo: Even though the OP's assertions are hilarious, I'd like to make a little serious contribution. Like I've always written in the culture section, there was nothing like Igbo, Ijaw or Yoruba ethnic identity until very recently. Most of these people consist of different peoples that were living in distinct clans that their origins varied. Take the Anioma area for instance, we had people living side by side who knew their ancestory from present day Igala, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo etc but when it was made compulsory to have an ethnic affiliation, they happened to fall into the Igbo fold because majority spoke Igbo as 1st or 2nd language. It happened all across Southern Nigeria where Whitemen would notice language similarities and map it as one ethnic group and then give it a name.

aletheia: The problem with we Africans is that we are a people who have lost a significant portion of our historical heritage. We have forgotten who we were and the little history that remains to us has been distorted through the lenses of colonialism. Much of what we call "tribes" today are artificial constructs imposed on us by colonialists. Our ancestors intermarried, traded, fought themselves and even swapped kings on occasion but it is not likely that they saw themselves in such ethnically jaundiced terms as so many on NL do these days. Case in point is Rwanda: most people are under the impression that Tutsis and Hutus are two different peoples. In truth, they are the same people. The artificial dichotomy was deliberately foisted upon them by colonialists who elevated the pastoral Tutsis above the Hutu agriculturalists. One people.

We shouldn't be too quick to dismiss all that the OP writes. Here and there lie intimations and shadows of the history that has been stolen from us.

bigfrancis21: Yoruba is not an indigenous language of Togo. The yoruba speakers found in Togo are yoruba migrants from Nigeria who still make return trips back to Nigeria. Emmanuel Adebayor, the Togolese player, was born in Togo to yoruba migrants from Nigeria. His father still strongly identifies with his ancestral home. Adebayor is as Togolese by birth as any Nigerian kid born in the US is an american by birth, not origin.
Like someone mentioned before, the world is a global village and the presence of a migrant group in a foreign country doesn't make that group indigenous to that country.

alj harem: can you people stop these ignorant statements. No one mentioned Adebayor as his parents are Nigerians.

I am talking of indigeous Yorubas in Togo and not likes of Adebayor

http://www.linguistik-online.de/43_10/fabunmi.pdf

When we say Ewa Agoyin which is a type of beans who do you think we are refering to ?

Do you know the meaning of Agoyin ?

This is a book by Robert Smith in 1988

I please you an nnenna should educate yourselves if you are ignorant and stop arguing

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ric6OhxbCS0C&pg=PA55&dq=indigenous+Yorubas+in+TOGO&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o3NqUbyUKsSn0AXapYGQBg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=indigenous%20Yorubas%20in%20TOGO&f=false

Go to places like Tado an Atakpame in togo, there are indigenous and even have a king

The word Anago or Nago, where do you think it came from ? From Nigeria or from the sky ?

The Itaha group of Togo what do you think they are ?

You can educate yourselves more here

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fwc5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Yoruba+togo&source=bl&ots=baYzgidZ_o&sig=o__Iq2xgvY7b_1Re7dUp2aCGzkA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pnRqUZyBD-2l0wXaloD4Cw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Yoruba%20togo&f=false

PLEASE ABGAWORO, DO EVER COMPARE YORUBAS TO IGBOS. Igbos are migrates to Cameroun just as they are in Lagos. Yorubas are not Migrates but indignous

Abagworo: Alhaji boko haram please can you educate me on the origin of the name "Yoruba" and which people it was applied to? Were Ijebus Yorubas? Were Ijeshas Yorubas? I'm not interested in migration as everybody seems to have migrated and remigrated. Some people in Ondo like Ilaje claim to have migrated from Ife which means the present day Ilaje was not their home. Same applies to some Igbos that claim to have migrated from Benin and some Ijaws who claim to have migrated from Benin as well.

splashbaby: The name Oyinbo was an African invention...so because we call white people Oyinbo they originated from us abi...just as Hausas gave the name "Yoruba" (Yeriba) to omo Odua which now makes them a tribe of Hausas abi...this is what I call baseless logical calamity that some of our half educated friends on Nairaland are building hypothesis and myths on to achieve what I term...#ethnic re-invention

aletheia: It would appear that the original name of the people we now call Yoruba was Nago. Yoruba was the name that the Hausa called them. The interesting question is : how is it that the people of SW Nigeria dropped their own name for themselves in favor of that of outsiders?

"In 1880, the Catholic missionary Pierre Bouche published Études sur la langue Nago ou Yorouba. In it he identifies a population of 3 million people on the “slave coast” who call themselves Nago but who are called Yoroubas by their neighbors the Haoussas."

Here's a piece from a forummer on Ghanacommunity .com that I thought was very insightful and I shd share with all.It's abt Ga-Adangbe history.Quite a long one but packed with info.

THE GA-ADANGBES (GA-DANGBES) ORIGINALLY CONSISTED OF THREE ACTIVE SUB-NATIONS: THE “GA-ASAFO” PEOPLE OF THE GA SPEAKING LANGUAGE, THE “DANGBE-ASAFO” PEOPLE OF THE DANGBE SPEAKING LANGUAGE AND THE “E-GBE” PEOPLE OF THE EWE SPEAKING LANGUAGE. THE "EGBE" PEOPLE ARE NOW NON-ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE GA-ADANGBES (GA-DANGBES). THOSE THREE ACTIVE NATIONS MERGED INTO ONE AS A NATION KNOWN AS THE GA-ADANGBES OR GA-DANGBES (GA-ADA-GBE). BOTH PRONUNCIATIONS ARE ACCEPTABLE. THE “N” IS SILENCE IN THE FIRST PRONUNCIATION (GA-ADA-N-GBE). THE WORD "GA-ADANGBE" (GA-DANGBE) WAS COINED FROM THE NAMES OF THE THREE NATIONS AND NAMED AFTER THEIR NEWLY BORN NATION "THE GA-ADANGBE" (GA-DANGBE) .

EACH OF THE SUB-NATIONS CONSISTED OF MANY TOWNS, CITIES AND VILLAGES. THEIR SETTLEMENT COVERED AN AREA ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS “THE GA-ADANGBE (GA-DANGBE) REGION”, UNTIL THE EUROPEAN COLONIZATION. AFTER THAT THE TERRITORY BECAME KNOWN AS THE SO-CALLED “GREATER ACCRA REGION”. THEIR PRESENT LOCATION IS IN THE SOUTH EAST OF THE PRESENT GHANA.

THEY HAVE AN ANCIENT HABIT OF SETTLING ALONG OCEAN SHORES AND HAVE MYSTERIOUS DISTINCT INTERESTS ALONG RIVER DELTAS.THIS HABIT IS DUE TO THEIR SPIRITUAL PASSION AND BELIEF OF THE DIVINE “NU” ( NUMO or NYUMO ) NAMED AFTER WATER, WHOSE PART IS THE DIVINITY “HU” NAMED AFTER BRIGHTNESS OR SHINING, WHICH WHEN JOINED TOGETHER BECOME “HUNU” (THE SUN), THE SYMBOL OF "NUMO", THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE.

THIS THE GA-ADAGBES HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED SINCE DAWN THROUGH THE CELESTIAL BODIES ,CELESTIAL NAVIGATIONS, AGRICULTURE AND FISHING. THEREFORE, THE GA-ADANGBES ARE NOT JUST FISHERMEN OR JUST INTO AGRICULTURE, BUT PRACTICE THESE PHENOMENON LEGACY AS PART OF THE "NU" PEOPLE (NUBIANS) OF THE DIVINITY "NU". (NUMO OR NYUMO IS DERIVED FROM THE DIVINITY "NU";- THE ORIGINAL KNOWN NAME OF THE SUPREME DIVINE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH THE GA-ADANGBES HAVE MAINTAINED THROUGH THEIR "NU-BIAN" ANCESTORS).






ANCIENT NUBIAN FISHERMEN. PART ANCESTORS OF THE GA-ADANGBES AND THE FANTES OF GHANA.





"ASAFOATSE NII-AKOFIO SOWAH": The face of an Ancient spirit. A warrior and a royal blood. He is also a "Live Library of Oral History" and his name is his spiritual code and his address, an indigenous of the Ga-Adangbe's La-Asafo people. Ghana.


THE GA-ADANGBES, WHO WERE PART MEMBERS OF MANY GENERATIONS OF THE ANCIENT NUBII (NUBIANS), WERE ONCE SETTLED WITHIN THE UBAIDAN NATION REGIONS OF THE ANCIENT SUMA’S “SHINAA”. THE "SHINAA" BEING THE TERRITORIES OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS, AN AREA BELIEVED TO BE THE ANCIENT PARADISE (GARDEN OF EDEN) AND A HOLY GROUND OF HOLY PRACTICES OF THE ANCIENT NUBIANS BEFORE AND DURING THE ERA OF THE ORACLE-KING WARRIOR "NIMROID" (NIMLOI), THE SON OF KUSHI (KUSH) AND THE GREAT GRAND SON OF THE NU-BIAN "NOAH" OF THE GREAT FLOOD. THIS AREA LATER BECAME KNOWN AS MESOPOTAMIA.

THE NUBIAN TONGUE PRESERVES ITS AUTHENTICITY BY ABIDING TO ITS ANCIENT SPIRITUAL LEGACY. THIS IS EVIDENT IN THE ADA LANGUAGE OF THE GA-ADANGBE SUB-NATION, WHICH RETAINED THE ANCESTRAL NAME "NIMLOR" SPELT BY THE MODERN HEBREW,GREEK OR LATIN AS "NIMROID". THUS, A SAYING IN THE ADA LANGUAGE;- 'NOR NOR TSHAPI "NIMLOI" OR "NOMLOI", LITERALLY MEANS ;THIS PERSON IS NOT A "NIMROID" (NIMLOI). THIS SAYING IS ADDRESSED TO A PERSON WHO DO NOT POSSESS THE CHARACTERISTICS AND QUALITIES OF "NIMLOI" AS A WARRIOR, KING, AN ORACLE OR A PERSON OF HOLY SPIRITUAL PRACTICES. THEREFORE, A PERSON WHO IS NOT A GOOD PERSON, OR ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHO WILL DO ANYTHING BAD MAY BE ADDRESSED AS "NOR NOR TSHAPI NIMLOI".

MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS B.C. THE “ADA/KROBO”, “GA,” “GBE” AND OTHER RELATIVE NATIONS WERE PART OF THE "YOOHUBA" NATION (YORUBA), THEN PART OF THE SUMA/ UBAIDA PEOPLE WHO WERE ATTACKED OUT OF THEIR LAND BY TERRORISTS AND VANDALS. DUE TO THESE ATTACKS SOME OF THE NUBIANS WERE ENSLAVED WITHIN THEIR OWN NATIONS AND SUB NATIONS AND MOST OF THEM RELOCATED TO MANY RELATIVES AREAS ON THE NUBIAN CONTINENT NOW CALLED “AFRICA”. MOST CHANGED THEIR NATIONS NAMES DUE TO SECURITY REASONS, AND OTHER NAMES WERE CHANGED DUE TO EUROPEAN COLONIZATION, COUPLED WITH RELIGION AND LANGUAGE CONVERSIONS.

MANY OF THE (UBAIDAN) “IBADA” PEOPLE THEN OF THE SUMA TERRITORY CAN BE FOUND AMONG MANY TERRITORIES IN THE PRESENT AFRICA, MOSTLY IN NIGERIA'S YORUBA. YOO-RU-BA = THE FEMALE COUNTER-PART OF THE SUPREME DIVINE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. THE MALE COUNTER-PART IS "NU".

OTHERS WHO WERE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE NAME "SUMA" ARE NOW IN THE NORTH-EAST NUBIA, NOW KNOWN AS NORTH EAST AFRICA, THEY ARE THE "SUMA-LI" PEOPLE NOW "SOMALIA" AND "ERITREA". BEFORE THEY WERE INFLUENCED BY THE PHOENICIANS AND THE PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE, SOME OF THEM MIGRATED TO THE PRESENT WEST AFRICAN TERRITORIES. BY THEN THE TWIN MALE BROTHER OF "SUMA" WHO WAS "FU" or "FU-LA" WHO GENERATIONS LATER BECAME KNOWN AS THE "FULANIS" HAD ALREADY MIGRATED TO VARIOUS AREAS. MASSIVE SPECIFIC GROUPS OF THE "FU"/"FULA" GENERATION SETTLED IN SUB-SAHARAN WEST AFRICA AS THE "MALI NATION" AND IN THE VAST REGION . THEY THEN MINGLED WITH SOME OF THEIR RELATIVE NATIONS.

THE NAME "FU"or "FULA", WHOM THE GREEK CALLED (TEFNU) "TEFU-NU" WAS THEN NAMED TO THE RIVER LATER KNOWN AS THE "EUPHRATES RIVER'", WHILE HIS TWIN SISTER "SUMA" WAS NAMED AFTER THE RIVER LATER KNOWN AS "TIGRIS-RIVER".

PORTIONS OF THE “NU-PEOPLE” NOW PHONETICALLY CALLED “NUBIANS” GROUPED AND MERGED INTO THE NATION CALLED “GA-ADAGBES" (GA-ADANGBES) WHO MIGRATED TO THE SUMA REGION FROM THE BANKS OF RIVER NILE'S UPPER TERRITORIES AND THE TERRITORIES OF THE LAKE NYANZA’S VAST REGION. AT THESE AREAS THEY WERE INTERMINGLED WITH THEIR OTHER RELATIVE SUB-NUBII NATIONS.

THOUGH THE BIRTH OF THE FULL NAME “GA-ADANGBE”, OCCURRED SHORTLY BEFORE THE BRITISH COLONIZATION OF THE PRESENT GHANA, THE INDIVIDUAL SUB-NATIONS OF THE GA-ADAGBE NATION EXISTED BEFORE THE BRITISH NATION AND EUROPE IN GENERAL. HOWEVER, SINCE THE COLONIZATION OF THE WEST AFRICANS BY THE EUROPEANS, MANY WEST AFRICANS HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY THEM AND PORTRAY MORE OF A EUROPEAN ATTITUDE, EVIDENCED BY SPEAKING MORE EUROPEAN LANGUAGES THAN THEIR OWN TONGUES AND DRESSING MORE IN EUROPEAN FASHIONS THAN THEIR OWN STYLES.

HOWEVER, THOUGH INTELLIGENCE IS FAR DIFFERENT FROM EUROPEAN EDUCATION, SOME OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED (LACKING THE NORMAL MENTAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE OR POWER) AMONG THE "NUBIANS" NOW AFRICANS, HAVE DAMAGED THEIR TRUE BIRTHRIGHTS IDENTITY AND HAVE BECOME LIMBO MINDED, “LESS CULTURED "NUBIANS",BY ADOPTING EUROPEAN CULTURES YET NOT QUALIFIED TO BE EUROPEANS”. (AFRICA IS A NAME OF A ROMAN GENERAL, PART OF THIS GENERAL’S FULL NAME WAS CYPIO AFRICANUS).

AS YOU READ ON, YOU WILL FIND THE GA-ADAGBES AUTHENTICITY IN CONFLICT WITH AN ONGOING LIVE DAMAGING CULTURE OF SOME OF THE GA-ADAGBES.

THE GA-ADAGBES AND THEIR ANCESTORS MASTERED IN THEOLOGY BEFORE THEY STARTED PRACTICING MONOTHEISM PRIOR TO SETTLING IN THE PRESENT GHANA, AMONG THEIR RELATIVE NATIONS. OVER MANY RELOCATIONS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AFTER THEY HAD FOUND MOST OF THEIR SUB-NATIONS THEY IMMEDIATELY ESTABLISHED WHAT HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN THEIR POSSESSION BEFORE AND AFTER THE NILE RIVER BANKS MIGRATION,WHICH IS THE OLD KNOWN LEGACY: “THE HOLY TESTIMONY OF THE OSA’S ASAFO WITH THE ASAFOATSEMEI HOLY PRACTICES OF THE “KPA” DOCTRINE. THIS RESURRECTED THEIR ANCIENT “HOMOWO” ATONEMENT FESTIVAL THAT THEY HAD KNOWN SINCE THEIR ANCIENT SETTLEMENTS ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER NOW CALLED RIVER NILE.



A GA-ADANGBE FAMILY, PART OF MANY ANCIENT NUBIAN DESCENDANTS

WITHIN THEIR PRACTICES OF MONOTHEISM (“NUMO or NYUMO”), THEY INTRODUCED THE DOCTRINE OF HONORING ANCESTORS AS DIVINITIES, BY INDUCTING THEM INTO THE SPIRITUAL MONOTHEISM HALL OF IMMORTALITY. THOSE WHO WERE INDUCTED HAVE EARNED THE DECENCY OF HOLY PRACTICES TO A VERY OLD AGE. SPECIFICALLY, IT IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST SPIRITUAL WEDDING CEREMONY FOR THOSE QUALIFIED, INTO THE MONOTHEISM DOCTRINE, KNOWN TO THE GA-ADAGBES AS "MUMO MLI KPEEMO" OR “AKPEE LE AWO MUMO MLI”, MEANING; SPIRITUAL WEDDING WITH THE SUPREME DIVINE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. THE GA-ADAGBES BLESS THEIR DIVINITIES AND REQUEST BLESSINGS FROM THEM BY MEANS OF MONOTHEISM (NUMO or NYUMO).


WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE GA-ADANGBES PASSIONATELY DEMONSTRATED THEIR ANCIENT SPIRITUAL INTEGRITY. THEY CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED ANCIENT SACRED SHRINES OF THE CONE STEPS STYLE, INSTEAD OF THE LATTER PYRAMID STEP STYLE. THESE CONE STEP STYLE SHRINES WERE CONSTRUCTED AT LOCATIONS OF INTENTIONAL DEGREES (ANGLES) AND DISTANCES BETWEEN THEM. THEY ATTENDED TO THE SHRINES ACCORDING TO THEIR REPRESENTATION AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. EACH SPIRITUAL NAME OF THE CONE SHRINES BECAME A MAJOR COMPONENT WITHIN THE THEOCRACY AND THE LITURGY SYSTEM PRACTICES OF THE GA-ADANGBES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.



CONE STEP "OTUTU"(SHRINE) OLDER THAN THE PYRAMID STYLE. LOCATION: EGYPT, FOR A NUBIAN ORACLE-KING DJOSER (A-DZE-OSA) CONSTRUCTED BEFORE 3500 BC. ANCESTOR OF MANY NUBIANS INCLUDE THE GA-ADANGBES.

BELOW IS THE LATEST PYRAMID STYLE"OTUTUI", OF ANCIENT ORACLE NUBIAN-KINGS; KHUFU (KUFU), KHAFRA (KAFRA), AND MENKAURE (AMEMKAULE)






CONE STEP "OTUTU" (SHRINE).OF THE DIVINITY "BENTUM". EARLIEST STYLE BEFORE THE PYRAMID STYLE. CONSTRUCTED 1459, ONE OF MANY AMONG THE LA-ASAFO OF THE GA-ADANGBES, GHANA






THESE CONE STEP SHRINES OR ANY OTHER NON-CONE STEP STYLE SHRINES ARE NOT KNOWN TO BE SHRINES AT WHICH SACRIFICES OF BLOOD ARE MADE. HOWEVER, IF AN OCCASION WHERE A RITUAL OR FESTIVITY ACTIVITY REQUIRES AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE, THAT ANIMAL WILL BE KILLED, BUT NOT NEAR OR ON THE SHRINE. THE MEAT WILL BE USED FOR COOKING A MEAL, OR THE FRESH MEAT SHARED AMONG THE FAMILIES INVOLVED. OTHER RITUAL ACTIVITIES MAY OCCUR WHICH MAY BE BLOOD SHRINE RELATED. THOSE ARE NOT RELATED TO THE GA-ADAGBE’S YEARLY “HOMOWO” ATONEMENT FESTIVAL.

TO PUBLICLY EXPOSE THE DETAILED PROCEDURE OF THE FULL ENHANCEMENT OF THEIR DOCTRINES AND ATONEMENT FESTIVALS WOULD NOT BE FAIR TO THE GA-ADAGBES, DUE TO THEIR SACRED SECRECY THAT IS MANDATORY TO THE “KPA”= (HOLY TESTIMONIAL DOCTRINE).



HOWEVER, PRACTICES OF “THE LA-ASAFO” PEOPLE, ONE OF THE SUB-NATIONS OF THE GA-ADAGBE NATION “HOMOWO” ATONEMENT FESTIVAL IS BEST KNOWN, AS THE FESTIVAL’S ROLE MODEL. NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE LA-ASAFO PEOPLE WHO MIGRATED TO THE PRESENT GHANA FROM ‘ILE-IFE’ OF THE YORUBA NATION, DEMONSTRATED ONE OF THE REASONS WHY ‘ILE-IFE’ BECAME THE CRADLE OF THE YORUBA NATION SOME TIME AGO. IN ESSENCE, THE GA-ADAGBES BELIEVED THAT THE LA-ASAFO PEOPLE BEING MORE IN TUNE WITH THEIR ANCIENT NUBII (NUBIANS) SPIRITUALISM, ARE VERY PRECISE AND VERY ANCIENT IN THEIR HOMOWO ATONEMENT FESTIVAL WHICH THEY HAD BEEN PRACTICING SINCE THEIR NILE RIVER MIGRATION THROUGH “ILE-IFE” TO THE PRESENT GHANA AMONG THEIR NEWLY CREATED OF THE “GA-ADAGBE” NATION.

THE IGNORANT, INNOCENT, BELIEVER OR NON-BELIEVER GA-ADAGBE IS SPIRITUALLY MANDATED TO THE FESTIVALS KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE SPIRITUAL MATRIMONY OF THE GA-ADAGBES AND THEIR SACRED DIVINITIES AND FESTIVALS ARE BURIED IN THEIR NAMES. THESE NAMES ARE SPIRITUALLY CODED TO THEIR ANCIENT ANCESTORS WHOM THEY ARE NAMED AFTER AS THEIR RESURRECTION. THE GA-ADAGBE NAMES ALSO PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE WITHIN THEIR THEOCRACY AND LITURGY SYSTEM, WHICH INVOLVE NAME COMMUNICATIONS SPIRITUALLY. ON ISSUES ABOUT THEIR SPIRITUALISM, AMONG SOME OF THE GA-ADABGES, DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE TO THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO HARBORED FEAR, COUPLED WITH PREJUDGMENTS OF THEIR OWN ANCESTORS, MAINLY DUE TO OTHER BELIEF PRACTICES AND INFLUENCES.

THERE HAS BEEN SPECULATION ABOUT THE GA-ADAGBE’S HOMOWO ATONEMENT FESTIVAL AMONG THE NON-CULTURED GA-ADAGBES WITH LESS SELF ESTEEM, THAT THE HOMOWO FESTIVAL CAME ABOUT DUE TO FAMINE. ONE CANNOT IMAGINE A FAMINE THAT OCCURRED ONLY TO THE GA-ADAGBE TERRITORIES WITHOUT AFFECTING THEIR RELATIVE FANTES ON THE WEST, THE AKROPONGS ON THE NORTH AND THE EWES ON THE EAST. THESE RELATIVE SUB-NATIONS OF THE GA-ADAGBES DO NOT CELEBRATE THE HOMOWO FESTIVAL, YET, THEY SHARE DIRECT BORDERS WITH THE GA-ADAGBES, (AND THE FAMINE DID NOT AFFECT THEM?!!….). THE HOMOWO FESTIVAL AS ALWAYS SPOKEN OF, BY THE PREVIOUS AND THE PRESENT ELDERS OF THE GA-ADAGBES, IS A HOLY NEW YEAR AND A HOLY HARVESTING OF ATONEMENT. THIS FESTIVAL HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE LAKE NYAZA’S AUTHENTIC CALENDAR CHRONOLOGY, (THE GA-ADAGBE CALENDAR). THIS FESTIVAL WAS NEVER SPOKEN OF AS A TRAGEDY AND DID NOT HAPPEN ACCIDENTALLY BY MEANS OF FAMINE. THE “HOMOWO” ATONEMENT FESTIVAL IS AN OLD LEGACY PRIOR TO THEIR SETTLEMENT IN THE PRESENT GHANA.
PaddyJun 14 2005, 08:12 PM
GA-MASHIE is the Original active name of the present GHANA’S capital city named "ACCRA" and the owner of that sovereign-state.

The word "ACCRA" was poorly derived from the name "NKRAN" (Ga word for Red Ants). The Ga-Adangbe Nation dressed in red to a battle (war) which they won, so many years before the Gold Coast regime and their opponents described them as "NKRAN". Though the Europeans poorly spelled the word "Nkran" as Accra, both words "Nkran and Accra" is unacceptable to the "GA-MASHIE" and the Ga-Adangbe Nation in general, who are the indigenes of that area.

First, let us define "NATION or ORIGINAL NATION" ? :- A body of people associated with a particular territory and its environment, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to have it own civilized law abiding rules, regulations, beliefs, culture, speak the same language and have a leadership of King, Queen or an Oracle. The roots of a Country are its Original-Nations and must be cherished and preserved.

GA-MASHIE is a sub-nation of the GA-ADANGBE Nation, whose identity is transparently overshadowed by the word "ACCRA", an alien government name given to the Ghana Nation's capital and to the Ga-Mashie sub-nation itself. The word "ACCRA" is not part of Ga-Mashie’s culture (spiritual doctrine) and cannot be one. Based on the ancient legacy of the "ASAFO" doctrine practices, it will be against spiritual rules of the GA-ADANGBES, their blood and spiritually bonded part GA-MASHIE, and its priceless theocracy, which is already in danger, to accept the name Accra as a replacement of their name GA-MASHIE.

The sub-nation Ga-Mashie has a unique format, it consists of other Chiefs within its Asafo Doctrine practices. The following Districts have chiefs :- Otublohum, Asere, Abola, Alata, Sempe, and Akanmaiadze are directly under the Gbese King, which makes the Gbese King a Paramount King within the Ga-Mashie geographical territory only. The other sub-nations of the Ga-Adangbe nation : Osu Asafo, La-Asafo, Teshie Asafo, Tema Asafo, Nungua Asafo, and Ga-Mashie Asafo, etc. are NOT under any other king, or under any Paramount king indirectly, directly, on contract, on agreement, or by means of any battle among them (as suggested by some but which never occurred). The Ga speaking sub-nations are all "Ga" proper, some of them named their sub-nation after an Ancestor Divinity of the Ancient Nubian regime as a Legacy.

However, the name "GA" reflects mostly in the "Anglo-Ga" Language which means ;- the Eldest, the Oldest, or the First. While to the Ga-Adangbes "OTE, TELE, TETE or TETTEY" represents ;- the Eldest, Oldest, or the First. The Ga-Adangbe Nation; Like the Akan Nation, the Hausa (Ahusa) Nation, the Dagomba (Dakumba) Nation, the Anglo-Ga Nation, and many more, are relocated sub-Nations of the Ancient Nubian Dynasty of the Divine Asa, Sai, Osa, Osei, or Esiri Doctrine, which is alive and intact up to today.

These historic member nations of ancient Nubia have maintained their genuine culture in a testimonial legacy that portrays live transcripts of an ancient apocrypha of the ancient "Nubian Empires". The structure of the Ga-Adangbe Nations are systems of theocracy; Divine spiritual governmental rule led by their highest priests and like many of the Ga-Adangbe nations, they are deeply cultured and highly specialized in divine spiritualism which they cherish, live for, and die for as their destiny.

In reality, the people of the Ga-Adangbe nation are the spiritual entity and are themselves the tools for their ceremonies. They are life transcripts in flesh, blood and death that reincarnate themselves through generations to generations. They also possess a questionable unsolved puzzle of the missing mysterious ancient covenant. The question is whether the powers of that covenant were once and still in a group of nations in flesh and blood as the covenant, or that covenant’s power is in a priceless precious material box.

Since dawn, Species of the Ga-Adangbe sub-Nubian Nations; Ga-Mashie, Osu, La-Asafo (La), Teshie, Nungua, Tema, Kpon, Ningo ( Nungo ), Ada, Manya-Krobo, Yilo-Krobo, Shai, Gbugbla, [ Medina of La-Asafo, La-Gon of La-Asafo, Atshimota,] and many more, are in possession of their own rural towns and villages culturally and geographically. Each sub-nation of the Ga-Adangbes consist of a group of clans, with each clan’s own rules and regulations that are in the interest of the sub-nation they are under or part of. And each sub Ga-Adangbe Nation has its own rules and regulation that are also in the interest of the entire Ga-Adangbe Nations. An example of systemized practices of their yearly "Asafotufiam" & " Homowo" atonement festival which they respectfully perform in a legacy manner from one sub Ga-Adangbe nation after the other.

Notwithstanding, each special named Nubian Nation has its own language, rules and regulations which relate and reflect other Nubian Nation’s doctrine of the same "Asa, Sai, Osa, Osei or Esiri’s doctrine of the ancient Nubian Dynasty.

The name Nubi (Nubian) was derived from the Divine "NU" of the primeval celestial waters where the Supreme Divine Creator of the Universe created itself and became known by the spiritual name NYU-MO, NUn-TSO, A-NU-KYE, and NU-TEM according to the ancient Nubians. "NU" father of many Nubian Nations is also the primogenitor of the "Ga-Adangbes" and like many Nubian nations they are predecessors of "NU", while few of them are progenitors of "NU".

These particular "Nubians (Ga-Adangbes, Nubii ) inherited their name after "TE" the first Spiritual divinity name of "NU". Due to the legacy of "NU", the Ga-Adangbes SPIRITUALLY classified and named all first born male "TETE, TE, OTE or TETTEY", and the first born female; TELE, LE etc. Both named after "NU's" spiritual name "TE";- The first creation that came from "NU", which makes the GA-ADANGBE'S the "FIRST" Born of the DIVINE "NU" now known among the Ga-Adangbes as "NYUMO, NOOMO, NUNTSO or NUMO. "NU" is also phonetically pronounced NUTEM, NETERU, or NUTERU, by Arabs, Greek, Romans and a few African Nations.

The first and the original name known to mankind of the "SUPREME DIVINE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE" was "NU" after which water was named and "NUBIANS" (BLACK SKIN people) were also named after. This is a known fact by the ancient "NUBIANS or NUBII" and a confirmation fact by "The Ga-Adangbes" who still speak the tongue of their ancestors "The Ancient Nubians" as a legacy.

THE "LA PEOPLE" (LA-ASAFO)


Like many of the Ga-Adangbe sub-nations with the same common practices of the "Kpa Doctrine" of the "LA" People (LA-ASAFO) ;- a Sub Ga-Adangbe Nubian nation of the Ancient Nubian Dynasty, and the Resurrected home of "ASAFOATSE TUTU-ANI"; head of the Osa’s, Asa’s, or Sai's, "Kpa" Divine doctrine of the La-Asafo. The "LA-ASAFO" people do not know about " BUDGE WALLIS'S " SO CALLED ( BOOK OF THE DEAD ), but the ( BOOK OF THE DEAD ) carries more about the ( LA- ASAFO people) of the Ga-Adangbes and their ASAFOATSE TUTU-ANI. He is known in the (BOOK OF THE DEAD) as "ANI" with his wife as"TUTU". He was the spiritual faculty and the coordinator of the OSA/ASAR (OSIRIS) Testimonial Doctrine include the "42-Declarations Of Innocence", now calved down to the "10-Commandments".

" NI or NII " is a singular description title for an ancient "DIVINITY " which is being used for both Spiritual leaders and Kings not "Chiefs" as illusioned to most in the English translation. However the leader of all " NII's or NI's " uses the Ga-Adangbe's pronoun plural letter "A" to the Spiritual title "NII or NI" to become "ANI".

ASAFOATSE TUTU-ANI was a spiritual title of a royal stool of theocracy system and a leader of the "OSA, ASA, (OSIRIS) or ASAR " Divine Testimonial Doctrine of the LA-ASAFO. Based on the ancient Nuubii or Nubians legacy, the LA- ASAFO people COULD NOT and will not spiritually separate the divinity title names "TUTU" from "ANI", always spiritually joint as "TUTU-ANI", just like their relative " AKANS " once spiritual leader and a King with the divinity names " OSEI-TUTU ".

"LA" a nation of Nubians who are also known spiritually as "LA-ASAFO" originally consist of seven sub-divisional clans and are spiritually the warriors of the Divine "HUNU" (SUN). The name "LA" (RA) which literally means Fire, Flames and Heat. As a legacy their existence and functions in life is to protect the Divine "HUNU"(SUN) spiritually with Fire, Flames and Heat, a duty in their legacy before 12,000 B C.

Note: This Spiritual duty is part of their "Kpa" Doctrine, whereby the "Kpa" ( Holy Testimonial Doctrine) represent as the "HUNU" (Sun), the dwelling place of "NU" (The Supreme Divine Creator of the Universe) whose protector is "La" (Ra), the fire part of the Divine "NU" whom one has to go through to "NU" (NUMO or NYUMO) when qualified as a holy person by means of practicing the Holy 42-Declarations of innocence.

During the ancient times of the present LA-ASAFO Nation, and presently among the deep cultured, the LA-ASAFO people believe the reason of them being the "Divinity-LA" in one nation body, the "Fire and the Heat" that protects the "Divine-Kpa", the counter part of the "HUNU" (SUN) is due to the fact that "HUNU" is the spirit "NU" made of water with shining Spirit-Soul. For "NU" (the Waters) is the dwelling place of the Creator of the Universe who spiritually made the waters powerful and illuminating. The LA-ASAFO people are the divine-spirit "LA" (Fire-Heat), the foreigners so-called "RA". "LA" surrounds and protect the dwelling place of the Divine Creator of the Universe, which makes them again the children of "NU" ;- NUMO / NYUMO "The Supreme Divine Creator of the Universe".

The Ga-sub-nations call the Sun "HUNU" which literally means the "Shining Waters", which is among one of the perfect reasons why they address to themselves as; NUBI, NUUBI, NYUMU-BI, or "HII-A-BII" < plural of NUBI. The name-title "NUU" or NYUMU is also used among the Ga-Adangbes for their male born child. And can be use for both male and female of the same father for the clan of their father’s as a direct descendent of that clan. However, " NU "/" NYU " is also honored as a name to "WATER" among the Ga-Adangbes and their ancient ancestors, "The NUBIANS" (NUUBII).

According to the First Original Divine Testimonial Scriptures of the World Creation and Culture of the Nubians (Nubii), the actual " MATERIAL SYMBOL’S " name of the Supreme Divine Creator is "HUNU", "PHU" or " PU". "HU " meaning " shining soul," and "NU" or " NYU" means waters (the primeval celestial waters). The unified names of HU and NU = "HUNU", which literally means "SHINING-Soul WATERS " (SUN). This information was found on the coffins of the ancient Nubians (Nubii), from their papyrus transcripts, and on the walls within their holy shrine-pyramid tombs. Other information ;- The believe practices among the Ga-Adangbes, and other Nubian descendant Nations. When compare these cultures with the Ancient Nubians (NUBII) the relationship link becomes innocently honest. That means the ancient Nubians (NUBII) and their culture were never lost since 12,000 B.C. and beyond.

Theocratically the LA-ASAFO still practices the "ASA" or "OSA Doctrine". This Divine practice which few can now be found in their Divine symbols - language (hieroglyphics) in Nubia (the present North East territory of Africa) and most preserved Nubian cultured area; West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa.

Those few and most of the Divine Symbols Languages of the Osa- doctrine that is not known by outsiders are of their daily culture that they practice, cherish, live for and die for as their way of life. This Osa Divine Doctrine is which (the LA-ASAFO) call in their Ga tongue; "KU-SUM, KU-SU-HU, or KHU-SUN".

KU, KHU,= Body-soul. SA = Spirit- invincible. SU, SHU, or HU = Shining-Soul. Therefore KUSUn, KHUSHU, KUHU or KUSUM = Body- Soul (spiritual). And SAHU means; shining "Spirit Soul". Practices of the Supreme Divine Creator through; our KU (KHU) or SA (OSA) = Spirit, and through "HU" = our Shining "Soul". So the name "SA-HU" (Spirit soul) is the title name for the Supreme Creator’s only representative in human form. One who practices Holiness, and recognized as the Divine over the District Divinities, as a Spiritual leader and a King, with the title "SA", "OSA", "ASA" or " OSEI ", which means; Spirit Soul (of the Supreme Divine Creator). In essence "ASAFO" is a person or persons ( member or members ) who practices the "Doctrine-of-Holy-Practices" of "Nyumo" (Numo) represented by "OSA", the so-called "Osiris".

The pronouns "O", "A" and " E "added to "SA" and "SIRI ", result in O-SA, A-SA, O-SEI or E-SIRI, the names which most Africans used then and now. Sadly the Divine name title OSA, OSEI, ASA, and ESIRI is now illusion phonetically to the word "OSIRIS" and many like that, typically doings of the Greek tongue.

As the name title OSA, OSEI, ESIRI, SAI or ASA represents life and death for humans spiritually, it welcomes and represents humans into the world in flesh soulfully and represents humans into the unconditional spiritual world spiritually. So the Divine title name " OSA" remains to be on earth for both our "SA" (Spirit) and our "HU" (Shining -Soul), as the divine key word in our functioning in life to our functioning after flesh life. The Divine key words;" OSA" and "ASA" is attached to the Divine Doctrine of the Supreme Divine Creator of the Universe. ASAFO is a MEMBER of the "Divine Doctrine", ASAFOATSE is the LEADER of the "Divine Doctrine" practices of; SPIRITUAL SOUL OF THE DIVINE SUPREME CREATOR;- NYUMO (NUMO).

The Ga-Adangbes sing "ASAFO" war songs in the name of "OSA". They sing joy (Celebration) "ASAFO" songs in the name of "OSA". They sing "ASAFO" songs in the name of "OSA" during enthrone of a King, a Queen or an Oracle, and they sing "ASAFO" songs in the name of "OSA" during funeral and burial ceremony-services of a King , Queen or an Oracle (WULOMO) etc.

The ancient cultural-Divine doctrine of A-SA, O-SA, SAI, E-SIRI, O-SEI or O-SAI practitioners and followers are known as:"ASAFO"and "OSOFO" among Ghanaians. The title OSO-FO is a singular of ASA-FO, e.g.:-All Christian priests were named by the ASAFO-Ghanaians; of the GA-ADANGBES and the AKANS etc., in their language as "OSO-FO" and the Christians members as "ASA-FO". This title names "ASA-FO" and "OSO-FO" has been in use by the Ga-Adangbe nations and the Akan nations before Christianity, and beyond 10,500 B.C. The title "ASAFO" and "OSOFO" is still being used in a non-Christian form as a legacy of the "OSA" practices among the Ghanaians.

The Nubians (now called Africans) of the Ga-Adangbes, the Akans, and the (A-Hu-Sa) Hausas etc; These nations and several others believed that any person or persons who practices holiness must be with the O-SA or A-SA divine doctrine. They have long known about ASA or OSA, so they saw a reflection of their ASA/OSA divine doctrine practices within the Christians, which is to them had been tampered with.

To the Nubian (African) the true practices of the ASA/OSA DIVINE doctrine is based on a legacy without bending the legacy rules. So they called the Christian priest as a member of ASA or OSA "OSO-FO". They did not name the Christian Priest the name of the ASA or OSA doctrine leadership name, which would have been "ASAFO-ATSE".

ANALOGY OF " LA-KPA "


The Ga-Adangbe word " KPA" or " KPAMO" which in the English language means:- Testament, Divine Law, or Divine Testimony, was addressed as a title to the Christian Bible by the cultured "GA-ASAFO" Ghanaians in their tongue as;-" KPA-MO MOMO " ( OLD TESTAMENT ) and "KPA-MO HEE" ( NEW TESTAMENT ).

This ancient Nubian word "KPA" (TESTAMENT or DIVINE - TESTIMONY) of the Ga-Adangbes is specifically used for the "OSA DIVINE DOCTRINE " Practices known as "ASAFO". While the title "LA-KPA" means; "LA-ASAFO DIVINE-TESTIMONY". Not to forget the description;" KPA-MO ADEKA" ( DIVINE-COVENANT ). The word "KPA" is used in the formation of compound words, as a Command, Oath or Pledge.

For example:- "Oto Kpa" = You are of a bad case or You are a bad Testimony. "Kpa" = Stop or Don't do it. "Kpa ta mo ame"= Stop them from fighting or Stop them. "Kpa ke dze mino" = Take it away from me . " Kpaoooo!"= Off me, Away from me, or Isolate me of ….. in the name of the Divine Testimony"KPA",and many more. Philosophically they all have common understanding, which is swearing in the name of "ASAFO'S Divine Testimony" the "KPA". This Divine Testimonial Testament "KPA" is part of THE LA-ASAFO'S LAW which makes them to be a Nubian Nation of Ancient Legacy. "KPA" is also their "LITURGY"; public divine worshipping within their atonement Language.

The Spiritual title "LA-KPA WULOMO" the (ORACLE): Is used for the spiritual leader who represents the"LA-ASAFO"Nation as the conductor of the"LA-KPA",which is the (LA-ASAFO DIVINE-TESTIMONY) of the Supreme Divine Creator. "The practices of "LA-KPA" is within the LA-ASAFO NATION'S permanent established institute. It is the culture and the daily Divine Communication, in Testimonial Language of the Supreme Divine Creator with the Supreme Divine Creator and their Ancient Divinities.

"Atonement Language": The true ingredients of the Nubian Languages ( Afrikan Languages ) are collective names of nature, and divinity names of their ancestors. The believe power of their spiritual reincarnation is the energy drive within their atonement languages . The Ga-Adangbes speaks the Language of "Kpa" ;- Divine Testimony. This has been the legacy Language of atonement- communication, and part of their well-defined system of Theocracy.

All of the above information was based on a living legacy of "NU" or "NYU" ( The Divine Name of The Primeval Celestial Waters ) and the (CUSTOM) "KUSUM"of the OSA /ASA DIVINE doctrine of the Ga-Adangbes who are one of the PRIMOGENITOR of "NU" ( NUMO) or "NYU" ( NYUMO ). Like a mother breast milk scent on a baby breath, so does the linguistics of the Ancient Nubian's Language on the tongue of the Ga-Adangbes. In realty, the Ga-Adangbes were NOT illiterate to their writing and reading of the "Kpa" Doctrines, the so-called "hieroglyphic holy writings". " ONE CAN SPEAK WHAT HE OR SHE WRITES AND READS ".

0lumide: The name Yoruba is more ancient than Hausa name itself. It is a corruption of Yohuuba a civilization which had their capital as Ubaidan (Ibadan). You don't know the history of Yorubas so shut up with your hearsay and bullsh!t stories cooked up.

The first use of the term 'Yoruba' appears to be well before the 1600, at least within some parts of West Africa, although not among the Yoruba themselves. Ahmad Baba refers to the Yoruba as an ethnic group that was not Muslim and hence legitimately fell within the sphere of those who could be enslaved. The term in its Hausa form (Yorubawa, Yarabawa), appears to be very old, the -wa suffix commonly referring to 'the people of', as in Hausawa and Katsinawa, the people of Hausa and the people of Katsina. The term is used in the Arabic writings of Usuman dan Fodio and Muhammad Bello between c. 1795 and 1812, which suggests that the term was used among all Muslim peoples from at least as far west as Timbuktu and as far east as the Hausa states

Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora. Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, David V. Trotman, pg 16-17.

aletheia: And where is the evidence for your "Yohuuba" and "Ubaidan"? Fanciful renditions. Objective readers not blinded by ethnocentric bias can judge between you and I who is peddling hearsay and bullshît here.

I had already cited Samuel Johnson, who is a venerated Yoruba historian earlier. Here's another source.



Thus several historical sources confirms the following:
1. The people of SW Nigeria did not call originally call themselves Yoruba
2. The origin of the name Yoruba is Hausa. It is the name the Hausa called the people of Oyo to the south of the Hausa city states
3. Sometime in the middle of the 19th century, that name extended to cover most of the people of the SW.

What I find baffling is:
1. How did the people of the SW Nigeria forget their own name for themselves and adopt a Hausa appellation?
2. Why some of them on this thread are raving because the name Yoruba is Hausa in origin? It's just a name, and like I said earlier we must distinguish between the name and the people.

0lumide: Ask yourself how a very proud tribe will drop her name to adopt a name by another tribe? It's like as Hausas are calling Igbos Yamiri now and then Igbos will now accept such name as the central name for their tribe?

0lumide: ...I no go fit de argue my tribe with you. I know more than the average Yoruba about Yorubas. I'm not someone schooled by some books. I was schooled by those who know about Yoruba's spiritual/cultural heritage more than some westernized scholars.

splashbaby: @OP on a lighter note...the Egbas are never in search or in doubt of their ethnic origin...Igbos on the other hand are in serious search of ethnic Identity... from Jews to Bantu and now Igbo mina and Egba...the confusion crisis is taking a new dimension of uncertinty even as far as the Americas where recent efforts at dishing out modern myths as facts by relating more established ethnic group language,names and place as having Igbo influences because of their similarity in sounds.

ezeagu: Yet Oduduwa was said to be from Saudi Arabia in traditional folklore.

splashbaby: Waoo are u serious? Hope this is not a spurious claim. I have never heard of that in any historic literature...May be you have access to certain reasonable facts to prove these claims...it will be interesting if you can share it with us though!

OsunOriginal: You see, igbos dont have history. The reason they struggle everyday to put unreasonable events together as history. How on earth will a sane person with a sense of history say some Yorubas are igbo decendants? What do we share in common with Yaminrins? Igalas are Yorubas - nothing igbotic in their lineage. Igbos are liars and only looking for a link that doesnt exist because of oil in igala land.

Thankgodifeduba: many yoruba tribes are igbos. Especially the Egba and Igbo mina people