Yoruba History
Location in Togo
Location in TogoThe Yoruba/Ife are the main group in the Togo department of Plateau Region, Ogou and Est-Mono prefectures; Centrale Region and Tchamba Prefecture ... Full story
Location in Benin
The Yoruba/Ife are the main group in the Benin department of Ouémé, all Subprefectures; Collines Province, all subprefectures; Plateau Province, all Subprefectures; Borgou Province, Tchaourou ... Full story
Location in Nigeria
Location in NigeriaThe Yoruba are the main ethnic group in the Nigerian federal states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo; they also constitute ... Full story
Yoruba Dialectology
Yoruba DialectologyAlthough most Yoruba speakers share a common history, it was only in the second half of the 19th century that they began to share ... Full story
Calendar
CalendarTime is measured in isheju or iseju (minutes), wakati (hours), ojo (days), ose (weeks), oshu or osu (months) and odun (years). There are 60 isheju ... Full story
Twins in Yoruba society
Ibeji twinsThe Yoruba present the highest dizygotic twinning rate in the world (4.4 % of all maternities). Twins are very important for the Yoruba and ... Full story
Diversity
DiversityToday, most contemporary Yoruba are Muslims and Christians. Islam found its way into the Yoruba kingdoms long before the Christianity of the colonial evangelists, coming ... Full story
Culture
CultureIn the city-states and many of their neighbors, a reserved way of life remains, with the school of thought of their people serving as a ... Full story
Groups organizations and leagues in Yorubaland
Groups organizations and leagues in YorubalandOccupational guilds, social clubs, secret or initiatory societies, and religious units, commonly known as Ẹgbẹ in Yoruba, included the Parakoyi ... Full story
City states
City statesThe monarchy of any city state was usually limited to a number of royal lineages. A family could be excluded from kingship and chieftancy ... Full story
Leadership
LeadershipGerontocratic leadership councils that guarded against the monopolization of power by a monarch were a proverbial trait of the Ẹgba, according to the eminent Ọyọ ... Full story
Government
Government Oyo Empire and surrounding states.Monarchies were a common form of government in Yorubaland, but they were not the only approach to government and social organization. ... Full story
After Oduduwa
Upon the disappearance of Oduduwa, there was a dispersal of his children from Ife to found other kingdoms. Each making their mark in the subsequent ... Full story
Criticism
However, some Yoruba scholars, especially, the Muslim and Christian clerics object to this mythology. Among the objecting voices to the stories of Oduduwa being the ... Full story
Oduduwa
OduduwaOral history of the Oyo-Yoruba recounts Odùduwà to be the Progenitor of the Yoruba and the reigning ancestor of their crowned kings. His coming from ... Full story
Cosmogonic origin
Ife bronze casting of a king dated around the 12th CenturyOrisa'nla (The great divinity) also known as Ọbatala was the arch-divinity chosen by Olodumare, the ... Full story
General history
The African peoples who lived in the lower western Niger area, at least by the 4th century BC, were not initially known as the Yoruba, ... Full story
Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba ... Full story
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Yejide
Gender: GirlOrigin: AfricanMeaning: Looks like her motherPronunciation: (yeh jee DEH) ... Full story
Yetunde
Gender: GirlOrigin: AfricanMeaning: Mother has come backPronunciation: (yeh TOON day) ... Full story
Titilayo
Gender: GirlOrigin: AfricanMeaning: Everlasting joyPronunciation: (tee tee lah YO) ... Full story
Tobi
Gender: BothOrigin: AfricanMeaning: God is goodOrigin: HebrewMeaning: God is goodPronunciation: (TOH bee) ... Full story
Taiwo
Gender: BothOrigin: AfricanMeaning: Eldest of twinsPronunciation: (tah EE wo) ... Full story
Shiminege
Gender: GirlOrigin: AfricanMeaning: We will forsee our futurePronunciation: (shee mee NAY gay) ... Full story
Sade
Gender: GirlOrigin: AfricanMeaning: Sweetly singingPronunciation: (shaw DAY) ... Full story
Onuwachi
Gender: BoyOrigin: AfricanMeaning: Lord's worldPronunciation: (o noo WAH chee) ... Full story