₦airaland Forum

Slimjorgor:
Fani is a Fulani. i don't blame him, he can't deny his tribe

mercyville:
OSUs are deranged that they can go to any length to deride Yoruba.
America was given to USA by an Italian,they have soared with the name.
Aamed Baba was an historian.J read somewhere...I am still trying to get where that Yoruba was coined from.. Arabic Ya Rabbi meaning meaning.. Oh God...
I with post it when I get it.
Yoruba had been a great name.We are one of the most prosperous people in the world.
We have Nobel laureates,more fhan10 Grammy awards,4th economy in Africa and the most developed space... Yorubaland...in Nigeria .
Let them cry.We are a proud and modest people..

Armaggedon:
sounds like you're crying already.

Kennyswagz1:
You know I ain't lying

Wyttcat:
Femi Fani-Kayode is a crackhead and igbos mouthpiece who will not re-write Yoruba history as they have re-written Ile Ife history, all he will do is divide Yoruba further. Fanikayode is from Ile Ife and wants to put his town ahead of Oyo which will never be and we will never be Oduduwan either because Yoruba and Ile Ife existed before Oduduwa came, heck, even Oduduwa himself was not from Ile Ife. Ile Ife is the land of Orisas under Oyo, and no independent Oba or crown there. Ooni of Ife posing as Oba is what foreign politics brought to Yorubaland. The original Oonis were Abore or Orisa attendants, the pan Yoruba monarchy is in Oyo. Yoruba is derived from 'OYO OBA' and what we are known by but we can always go back to another name we are known by which is 'Omoluabis' or Omoluabians from OMO TI OLU IWA BI since we want to remove Oyo from what we are called. While at that we need to find a new language too because the Yoruba we all speak and write down is Oyo too.

mercyville:
You should change Igbo because it means..slave that is bathed in bad luck.
Igbo by Nri means slaves and in Yoruba...babarians(bush people)

Pigsandidiots:
[s][/s]Trash from yamiri

Here is a confirmed account of Cannibalism in Nigeria by Father Bubendorf of Freiburg, an eye-witness to the slaughter of a group of captives outside the hut of a tribal chief, Onitsha, Nigeria, c. 1921
Every moment, men, women and even children passed me, One would be carrying a human leg on his shoulder, another would be carrying the lungs or the heart of some unfortunate Kroo-boy in his or her hands. Several times I myself was offered my choice of one of these morsels, dripping with gore.
Directly an enemy was slain, his head – and sometimes his body, if the people were strongly cannibalistic – was taken to the village and a great dance given, either at once or after the skull has been cleaned of its flesh by boiling, or by being buried for a time in the ground. At the feast, every man-slayer of the village danced round, generally with a skull in one hand and his machete in the other. Sometimes the body of the enemy was brought in whole; sometimes it was cut in pieces in advance to facilitate transport. It was then boiled in native pots and shared out, occasionally among the man-slayer’s family and friends, but sometimes among all the people of the village, until it was wholly consumed. In some tribes it was forbidden for women and children to partake of human flesh; in others, for example among the Kalabari, the eldest sister of the hut was forced to taste it, however strongly she might protest.

Among the Abadja, the whole body of anyone slain was ordinarily taken back to the village and there consumed, though it was tabu to eat women or children. A man only divided his ‘kill’ among his own family. The body was cut up and cooked in pots; the fingers, palms of the hands, and toes were considered the best eating. Sometimes, if a family had been satisfied, part of the body would be dried and put away for later.

When an Nkanu warrior brought a head back, everyone who heard of the deed gave him a present, and much palm-wine was drunk. The trophy was boiled, and the flesh cut away. The skull was then taken out, accompanied with all the others in the village, and the flesh was then boiled and eaten.

Much cruelty was practised among certain of these tribes. For example, the Bafum-Bansaw, who frequently tortured their prisoners before putting them to death. Palm-oil was boiled in a big pot, and then by means of a gourd enema it was pumped into the bowels and stomachs of the prisoners. This practice was said to make the bodies much more succulent than they would otherwise have been. The bodies were left until the palm-oil had permeated them, and then cut up and devoured...

Yohorimaz:
Shut up. Stinking pussy, whorish daughter of a yam legged infected borehole pussy mother who was one of the daughter one of the 5 million osu slaves and pigs raped and killed by king awolowo

Former Biafran commander Ben Guile reveals Ndigbo resorted to cannibalism during civil war

Captain Gbuile said: “I went to Aba because Ngwa people were eating human beings. I am going to advise our people against a lot of things they are doing and although they have not sought my advice but I am going to give it to them without asking for any gain.

“I went to Aba to stop cannibalism, the eating of human beings, which is just as bad as our people here today kidnapping our own people. We fought a war to protect lives and properties but our own people are now kidnapping our own people, does it make sense?”

AmuDimpka:
Thank Lord that it's a Yoruba man that said Yoruba means treachery , lying and decieful

AmuDimpka:
Leave Igbo out of this ....go and change your name given to you by fulani....no womwonderder you guys are always loyal to them


Truth is awesome

Armaggedon:
He is correct. It is a known fact that the name "Yoruba" originated from Hausa/fulani's and applied only to Oyo area before British colonialism generalized it to include the rest of the Yoruba speaking people..

shugabasbn:
U are not correct. The name has bn in existence since 1600s before Fulani migrated to present day Nigeria n far before Yoruba have a contact with Hausa.

awgumayor:
Languages can be similar but have different meanings. For instance, OLANIYI. In igbo it means wasted or destroyed.
Remember, it was Olaudah Equanor who first said that igbo was first coined from Hebrew. Hebrew- heebo-ebo-ibo-and finally, igbo.
The question is why they don't have names of people and towns in Yoruba name just as igbo have igboukwu, obigbo, igboanugo, onigbo, igbokwe etc, It's never too late to do like Swaziland.

Iamgrey5:
Oyo was always know as Yoruba even in languages written before Dafodio took over Sokoto and started his Jihad.

It was captured in writing by Malian travellers.


However, the rest of the Yorubas were bearing their own individual names.

The Yorubas were generally known as Akus or Ekus which was coined from the greetings "Aku ise or Eku ise" a common greeting in Yoruba land.

Mixing facts and fiction like you did in the write up you stole from somewhere can't change history.

awgumayor:
Languages can be similar but have different meanings. For instance, OLANIYI. In igbo it means wasted or destroyed.
Remember, it was Olaudah Equanor who first said that igbo was first coined from Hebrew. Hebrew- heebo-ebo-ibo-and finally, igbo.
The question is why they don't have names of people and towns in Yoruba name just as igbo have igboukwu, obigbo, igboanugo, onigbo, igbokwe etc, It's never too late to do like Swaziland.

Emary:
This has been a very stimulating topic. My biggest take away from this is that the modern day Yorubas are not originally one people but were foistered together by inter-tribal wars and slave trade. Race and tribe remain social constructs ever evolving and none are superior to the other. I'm sure if everyone does DNA testing, we will all find so many different races in our ancestry.

For all those arguing that the name could not have been coined by the Hausa, you are forgetting that there were interactions between both people long before the advent of Islam. It's a pity that there was no written documentation prior to the 15th century but it's not only in Africa that colonialism has muddied our histories. The original inhabitants of America and several countries of the world share the same fate.

So what, if the name was given in ridicule? The most important thing is what it represents today. It would be nice if the Yoruba could shake away the stigma of being deceitful (many still are today) and become a people of integrity and prosperity. That would be a great story to tell.

JOHNSONSOLAFUNMI:
The traders of Mali brought Islam to yoruba land, the reason Islam is called esin "imale" in yoruba, please learn history, the jihad only gave the fulanis opportunity to rule hausa land

mercyville:
Igbo means slaves.Go and research about how you came to be known as slaves..
Hebrews cannot be like this in 1921.
This is a pix of Igbos in the twentieth century.

Makuos19:
Eyaa...
I feel your pains....But your brother has said it all