Yoruba country was a West African ethno-region located within the continent of Africa which was first introduced to the Western world in text in the 19th...

Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by the Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 48...

Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in...

The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice...

formerly dominant Ile-Ife kingdom are largely oral. The history of the Yoruba people begins in Ile-Ife(Ife Empire). This kingdom was founded by the deity...

Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire) is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria...

The Yoruba Revolutionary Wars, otherwise known as the Yoruba Civil Wars (c. 1789–1893), were a series of conflicts that engulfed the Yoruba-speaking areas...

Oyo Empire Yoruba states List of rulers of the Yoruba state of Dassa List of rulers of the Yoruba state of Icha List of rulers of the Yoruba state of Ketu...

Yoruba Americans (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá Amẹrika) are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group that predominantly...

The Yoruba of West Africa (Benin, Nigeria and Togo) are responsible for a distinct artistic tradition in Africa, a tradition that remains vital and influential...

A Yorùbá name is a name that is part of a naming tradition that is primarily used by the Yoruba people and Yoruba language–speaking individuals in Benin...

of Yoruba people and Yoruba faiths in all of Africa. Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago are the countries in the Americas where Yoruba cultural...

Yoruba Canadians are Canadians of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people are an ethnic group of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West Africa. They...

Èṣù is a pivotal Òrìṣà/Irúnmọlẹ̀ in the Yoruba spirituality known as ìṣẹ̀ṣe. Èṣù is a prominent primordial Divinity (a delegated Irúnmọlẹ̀ sent by the...

Yoruba music is the pattern/style of music practiced by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo, and Benin. It is perhaps best known for its extremely advanced...

Oba means "ruler" in the Yoruba and Bini languages. Kings in Yorubaland, a region which is in the modern republics of Benin, Nigeria and Togo, make use...

Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. Nigeria has one official...

Oshosi (Yoruba: Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì, Portuguese: Oxóssi) is an Orisha of the Yoruba religion in West Africa and subsequently in Brazil and Cuba. Oshosi is the spirit...

from Yoruba history. The legend and history of Ile-Ife (Ile meaning home and Ife meaning expansion) originates in the original expansion of Yoruba peoples...

This is a list of notable Yoruba people. Adebayo Salami (b. 1953), Nigerian actor, filmmaker, movie producer and director Aderounmu Adejumoke Adunni Ade...

The Yoruba tribal marks are scarifications which are specific identification and beautification marks designed on the face or body of the Yoruba people...

Samuel Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891), was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. Born in Osogun (in...

The Yoruba Academy is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental, multi-disciplinary institution set up to shepherd the growth and development...

Ogun or Ogoun (Yoruba: Ògún, Edo: Ògún, Portuguese: Ogum, Gu; also spelled Oggun or Ogou; known as Ogún or Ogum in Latin America) is a spirit that appears...

Hinderer or Anna Martin (1827–1870) was a British missionary to Ibadan, Yoruba Country which is now part of Nigeria. She is celebrated by a stained-glass window...

October 1938 – 22 April 2022) was the Alaafin, or traditional ruler, of the Yoruba town of Oyo and rightful heir to the throne of its historic empire. Alaafin...

most populated state with over 20 million people residing therein. Yoruba country Nigeria portal "Western states in Nigeria and all about them". Nigerian...

Kokoro is a Yoruba word meaning "worm", "grub" or "insect". In traditional Yuruba medicine, these "kokoro" are connected with a variety of different types...

Obatala is an orisha in the Yoruba religion that is believed to have been given the task to create the Earth but failed the task by being drunk on palm...

Shango (Yoruba language: Ṣàngó, also known as Changó or Xangô in Latin America; as Jakuta or Badé; and as Ṣangó in Trinidad Orisha) is an Orisha (or spirit)...