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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 6:10am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:

Seriously, Nigerians are local.

The best way to test their locality is by telling them that I'm Atheist.

Na you sabi that one.Iwo ati oro atheist yi sa

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:13am On Nov 04, 2015

Aareonakakanfo:

Na you sabi that one.Iwo ati oro atheist yi sa

Locality signal blinking cool

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:28am On Nov 04, 2015

Start @ 1:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhMsFSGSS0

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 6:31am On Nov 04, 2015

Omo yanmiri ke

Yoruba woman don finish for this commonwealth? If i cant find Yoruba woman in Nigeria I will go marry Yoruba woman in Trinidad.

Ilekeh is an instigator. grin

. Mischief brewer #1

Mtcheww.

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:33am On Nov 04, 2015

I used to do this dance in my primary school in Lagos.

Look at out beautiful sons and daughters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIsNphXD6H4

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 6:34am On Nov 04, 2015

MayorofLagos:
Omo yanmiri ke Yoruba woman don finish for this commonwealth? If i cant find Yoruba woman in Nigeria I will go marry Yoruba woman in Trinidad.

Ilekeh is an instigator. . Mischief brewer #1

Mtcheww.

Quimicababes.na you some people dey use style follow talk oo

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:35am On Nov 04, 2015

MayorofLagos:
Omo yanmiri ke Yoruba woman don finish for this commonwealth? If i cant find Yoruba woman in Nigeria I will go marry Yoruba woman in Trinidad.

Ilekeh is an instigator. . Mischief brewer #1

Mtcheww.

lol ashewo, quimicababes is not Yoruba. Go to Brazil nau...lol tongue

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:35am On Nov 04, 2015

Aareonakakanfo:

Quimicababes.na you some people dey use style follow talk oo

I think say na only me catch am.

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 6:37am On Nov 04, 2015

Ere ta se yi naa to.Abeg back to the topic

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:41am On Nov 04, 2015

Aareonakakanfo:
Ere ta se yi naa to.Abeg back to the topic

Ok!

Back to the topic

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:42am On Nov 04, 2015

O daaro!

I'm out!

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 6:44am On Nov 04, 2015

Aareonakakanfo:

Quimicababes.na you some people dey use style follow talk oo

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 6:45am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:
O daaro!

I'm out!

Olorun ko ji wa re o!

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:45am On Nov 04, 2015

MayorofLagos:

i aba ria ti pese [ekiti]

baba wa ti soro [yoruba]

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ilekemd: 6:46am On Nov 04, 2015

MayorofLagos:

~~Olorun~~ Eledumare ko ji wa re o!

in se!

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 6:47am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:
O daaro!

I'm out!

I'm out of the building as well.O daaro

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 6:50am On Nov 04, 2015

Aare,
Ka sun re o....Eledumare ko ji wa re o!

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by tupacshakur(m): 8:56am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:

Seriously, Nigerians are local.

The best way to test their locality is by telling them that I'm Atheist.

Are you really an Atheist, Ileke?

If you are, then we have one more thing in common, besides being both Yoruba. grin

I believe the entire universe is just too gargantuan and overly complex for one "being" to be its mastermind.

There is definitely no "God" and I have a lot of Proofs to back up my assertion. The idea of a biblical or quranic "God" is a falsity.

I admire Ogun, though. Ogun l'akaiye osinmole. The Yoruba "god" of war, iron and metallic ore.

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 9:08am On Nov 04, 2015

MayorofLagos:
Dont worry about shymmex, he art restricteth to speaketh Queen's grammar till Ijebu hath becometh a State in Nigeria. Ive seen Laudate in action with Ibos, he already know how to curse in Yoruba. So these fellas are ok.

Hahahaha! LWKMD! cheesy

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 9:19am On Nov 04, 2015

quimicababes:
some more @laudate

Thank you so very much for this!

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 9:55am On Nov 04, 2015

Shymm3x:

Brev, post Yoruba religion on the thread. The thread is for everything Yoruba - all inconclusive. Whatever you have, just post it.

Alright my duke, I will then.

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Musiwa419: 10:00am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:
NOTE : Yorubas in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia are referred to as Aku people.

Here is a list of few of them

Prof Akintola Wyse( Prof of history at Fourah Bay College Freetwon)

Bankole Bright( Sierra Leonean nationalist and medical doctor)

Olufemi Terry(Sierra Leonean writer and jouranlist. Winner of the 2010 Caine prize for african writing)

Ogunlade Davidson(Sierra Leone minister of energy and power)

David Omoshola Carew(Sierra Leone minister of trade and industry)

Nathaniel Bankole-Stronge( Sierra Leone speaker of parliement)

Ade Renne Thomas ( former Chief Justice of Sierra Leone)

Winstanley Bankole Johnson( former mayor of freetown)

Dr John Augustus Abayomi-Cole( Sierra Leonean medical doctor and politician)

Isreal Olufemi Cole( Sierra Leonean musician)

Adetokumboh McCormack( Sierra Leonean actor)

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 10:06am On Nov 04, 2015

Apparently, laudate is not Yoruba.

Does anyone know what ethnic background she is from?

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 10:15am On Nov 04, 2015

laudate:
Why can't 'Ewi be popularised?? Before anyone tells me that the words are not easy to understand (I know, lol!), those poems are so lyrical. Just listen to the beats. And the chants are so rhythmic! One day my late maternal grandmum's sister - may God rest her soul! - translated one of those old Ewi chants for me titled Oriki Olodumare, it was so deep and rich in meaning! I can't even remember the name of the artist, anymore.... _*sigh*

quimicababes:
I think when we say certain things are dying amongst Yorubas we should be clear to differentiate amongst which groups of Yorubas.Isese Yorubas are fighting to hold onto Yoruba culture in its entirety and for that group....I don't think it will die off...for the others...well only time go tell.

What Laudate and others perceive to be dying are actually very much alive.

The wood crafts, cloth dying, cloth weaving, traditional hairstyle weaving to mention a few are very much alive but are restricted to the hinterlands. Although they appear to have pretty much gone into extinction, the reality is that Yoruba families are structured in a way that each family is specialized in something and has it restricted to them - kingship, chieftaincy, religion, sculpture, dance, ewi/poetry, cloth weaving, hunting etc. And as a result, as long as these families and their compounds exist, these 'certain things' will continue to exist.

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 10:24am On Nov 04, 2015

9jacrip:

What Laudate and others perceive to be dying are actually very much alive.

The wood crafts, cloth dying, cloth weaving, traditional hairstyle weaving to mention a few are very much alive but are restricted to the hinterlands. Although they appear to have pretty much gone into extinction, the reality is that Yoruba families are structured in a way that each family is specialized in something and has it restricted to them - kingship, chieftaincy, religion, sculpture, dance, ewi/poetry, cloth weaving, hunting etc. And as a result, as long as these families and their compounds exist, these 'certain things' will continue to exist.

Guy, when was the last time you went into the hinterlands?? If those crafts were not dying, they should have been growing and quite visible in every local government, both in the cities and the villages. Only traditional hair-dressing seems to have thrived irrespective of location, but that was NOT even mentioned in our discourse. undecided

Weave-on even appears to be a preferred medium of hair expression among the ladies, these days.

Take Ewi for example. When was the last time an Ewi piece got into the Top Ten Charts in the South-western part of Nigeria?? Let us look at Aso-oke. In how many towns and villages does this art thrive, all over the South-West? This is something that whole communities and villages should be engaged in, and not just a few families. sad

And if you compare the usage of local compressed earth mud blocks for building houses today, with the number of houses being built using cement, you would realise that this art of using traditional earth blocks for building houses is fast going into extinction. shocked

The same thing goes for traditional blacksmithing, copperworks etc.

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 10:25am On Nov 04, 2015

9jacrip:

Apparently, laudate is not Yoruba.

Does anyone know what ethnic background she is from?

Why do you want to know?? And why are you calling me a she?

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 10:25am On Nov 04, 2015

quimicababes:

If other Yorubas don't want to hold onto their culture...can you force them ? If they lose it..whose fault is it? The reality is only Yorubas can value their culture and if they chose to throw away certain aspects...that's their call.Even though Isese folks are a minority...the reality is the culture will not die.A Yoruba christian I am friends with on fb...she cried when she saw a video of latino diasporans singing yoruba songs,dressed in yoruba wear..apparently it was some ceremony for a baby.If Yorubas don't appreciate their culture...I can say most certainly outsiders will.

The first emboldened is wrong.

Isese folks are not necessarily the people who identify with the system, although the population of those who identify with is quite large - starting from Lagos to Offa and Yagba in Kogi.

Also, the Christians and the Muslims are also Isese practitioners although 'low-key'. They, when their adopted religions cannot take them past a situation, they turn to Isese for everything.

I make bold to say Isese people are as much as Christians and Muslims in SWest.

The second emboldened is correct.
Yoruba folks only begin to appreciate their stuff when they see outsiders, especially folks with white skin who brought them their adopted religions doing Yoruba things. You'd discover may people have dropped Islam/Christianity just because they saw white folks in person or in video practicing the Yoruba isese thing. Africans and the need for validation grin

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 10:30am On Nov 04, 2015

MayorofLagos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqrlNCfMug0

Iya'Badan for entertainment

Loooool.

The chic looks and talks like "MsNas" the Ibadan Amazon. And her chest is just as swollen as MsNas'. lipsrsealed

MsNas the nasty Nas, where art thou? I know you've been posting under a next handle - time to wear ya old jacket and come rep Ibadan on this thread with a lot of see-keen to look niggerish. grin

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 10:31am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:

Yoruba culture isn't just about Yoruba religion.

Egbon mi, I do not think you can separate them.

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Rilwayne001: 10:33am On Nov 04, 2015

ilekemd:
O daaro!
I'm out!

Laaago melo ti Ile sesè mo?

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 10:33am On Nov 04, 2015

quimicababes:

I know chic....but some ppl do associate the religion to the culture.Like a friend was asking me if you can learn yoruba if u are not isese.Another friend when we was doing yoga...she was like jeeze I hope them don't bring hinduism into it and felt uncomfortable doing it as sometimes the lady would play indian music lol .It wouldn't hurt to try tho.

Isese is an embodiment of the entire Yoruba culture.

The language, dressing, greetings, poetry, scuplture etc.

You'd find that those who are Yoruba by birth and speak Yoruba do not necessarily possess the qualities of the Yoruba culture.

Place that against someone who practices Isese, even a foreigner.

There will always be a difference.

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 10:36am On Nov 04, 2015

quimicababes:

You never know.I have been more or less indifferent with regards to those various dna tests to determine one's ancestry.

As I've always said, Africans in the Diaspora do not necessarily have to go through the DNA to find their ancestry. I believe over the years too much damage has been done for them to pin point where their actually family in Africa is/was. So I often suggest you read about various cultures in Africa and adopt one, learn it thoroughly, identify with it and pass it on to your kids. This way, you'd give your many generations to come an African identity.

Just my thoughts.

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