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Lstar4real:
Great moved by the Lasunwon family ...Someone that was the odofin of ikorodu for years hailed from adegorushen family was now nominated as the King....i was expecting somone from lasunwon family to be the King......was shocked when i saw odofin dominated again......ugh.

llaykorn:
Who is site admin?

ROSSIKE:
The compound word Oba'ufon or Obalufon (since the placing of two vowels together is unusual in Yoruba, the letter l is inserted for euphony)

Watched over by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Marines raised the American flag at the embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years on Friday, symbolically ushering in an era of renewed diplomatic relations between the two Cold War-era foes.

Three retired Marines who last lowered the flag in 1961 participated in the ceremony, handing a new flag to the Marine Color Guard, which raised it on the grounds outside the embassy building on the Havana seafront.

Kerry, the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Cuba in 70 years, told the ceremony it was obvious that "the road of mutual isolation and estrangement that the United States and Cuba have been traveling is not the right one and that the time has come for us to move in a more promising direction."

The symbolic event took place eight months after Havana and Washington agreed to restore ties and nearly four weeks after the United States and Cuba formally renewed diplomatic relations and upgraded their diplomatic missions to embassies.

While the Cubans celebrated with a flag-raising in Washington on July 20, the Americans waited until Kerry could travel to Havana.

Kerry made plain in his remarks that despite the historic opening, Washington has not set aside criticism of Communist-run Cuba's human rights record.

"We remain convinced the people of Cuba would be best served by a genuine democracy, where people are free to choose their leaders," he said.

Kerry will meet Cuban dissidents opposed to the island's one-party political system at the U.S. embassy residence in Havana later on Friday.

But dissidents were not invited to the morning flag-raising in deference to the Cuban government, generating criticism from opponents of U.S. President Barack Obama's opening to Cuba.

Critics of Obama's move, which seeks to end decades of U.S. isolation and was announced last December in a landmark agreement with Cuban President Raul Castro, complain the Cuban government has made no concessions in exchange for diplomatic ties.

"It is shameful that on the grounds of our embassy in Havana, the Cuban regime can dictate to the United States government who may or may not attend this ceremony," Bob Menendez, a Cuban-American senator from New Jersey, said in a statement.

Overnight, workers attached a sign reading "Embassy of the United States of America" above the entrance of the building, accompanied by a U.S. seal.

Three classic American cars like those that still ply the streets of Havana were parked on the street behind the podium where Kerry spoke: a 1955 and a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 1959 Chevrolet Impala, from the year of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.












http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-cuba-usa-idUSKCN0QJ0BB20150814

Obalufon:
I'm doing just that Sir , I'm not ashamed of my native religion . I'm enlightened enough to know the truth and resist any form of brainwash by any aggressive religion to becloud my mind and paint my ancestors demonic. I'm not ashamed to preach the truth .Are you a pagan.?

member3:
yoruba or ya'araba are ya'arab bin sanhaaja bin alhaafi bin qadha'a bin malik bin amru bin murra bin malik bin himyar bin saba bin yashjab bin y'arab bin qahtaan bin hud
as is professed by the illustrious imaam adam abdullah ilori yoruba are the ya'araba of west africa a branch of the ya'arab north of them , those who traveled from yemen and the hijaaz to the african continent before islaam or the sanhaaja berbers this is shown by historical, cultural, and linguistic witnesses . the tribe arrived in the present area in two migrations between the 8th and 10th century c.e.



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olumidaie:
God bless you my reasonable brother. All those theories that Africans and the world migrated from the middle-east arew fallacies. The Yoruban- Middle-east theory was made by the Sultan of Sokoto, Bello. Its is common for Islamic Africa to trace their orogin to the middle east. Abrahamic faiths support.

According to tradition history, there were no eastern connection with oduduwa. This is where the benin people compound the fallacies of Elkarlarderan on. They just bring some few words that sound/ mean the same in both languages; then they conclude, not knowing of the various trade Yoruba had with Islamic Africa like Hausa.

As a Yoruba person, I debunk this stupid claims.

Wiztonero:
In Genesis 9:20-27, we see how Noah cursed his son Ham for mocking him while he was drunk. He cursed Ham's descendants saying that they would always be servants to the descendants of his brothers Shem and Japhet. I have often wondered, could it be that black Africans are the children of Ham? Because all through history, from the slave trade, to the colonial era (even now in a subtler form) blacks have always been oppressed by the whites. So, guys what do you think? Could it be because of Noah's curse on our progenitor?

innoachukw:
Am currently at NAF Base PH where this information was just given to us.

mamagee3:
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