Though the origin of the Yorubas remain enmeshed in controversies between the myth and the realities, legends and myths of origin are not peculiar to the Yorubas. In the study of history, ...

Atunto, a global Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has strongly condemned recent claims suggesting that the Igbo people once occupied Ile-Ife, the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba. In a statement ...

Every language has its peculiarity, languages make up the entirety of any culture. It is also usually common to have some words in a language share similarities in pronunciation and meaning to another ...

This paper attempts to discuss the issue of the origin of the Yoruba in its many dimensions especially those discussions which scholars of history, archaeology and related disciplines rely upon in ...

A race of giants. The Yoruba had been producing monumental men and women long before Nigeria became a country. Professor Adelola Adeloye’s ‘African Pioneers of Modern Medicine’ (1985) has a list of ...

The Ojude Oba festival is not only celebrated by people of Yoruba origin or Ijebu descent but also by about a million people from different parts of the world and Nigeria. Held annually on the third ...

Ralph Appelbaum Associates has designed the exhibition interiors of the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos, Nigeria. As an all-encompassing celebration of Yoruba art, fashion, ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has stated that Ile-Ife should not be regarded as the origin of the Yoruba race. Oba Akanbi made this known in a video posted on his official ...

Prominent Yoruba elders and leaders on Tuesday called for restraint and intervention of cultural and political figures following the reopening of hostilities between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem ...