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 people (US: /ˈjɒrəbə/ YORR-ə-bə, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/ YORR-uub-ə; Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic...

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

Nigerian nationalism also had political implications for ethnic divide - southern Nigeria faced strong ethnic divisions between the Igbo and the Yoruba while...

Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo (// Yoruba: Ọbáfẹ́mi Oyèéníyì Awólọ́wọ̀; 6 March 1909 – 9 May 1987) was a Nigerian nationalist and statesman who...

Jùjú is a style of Yoruba popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. The name juju from the Yoruba word "juju" or "jiju" meaning "throwing"...

Igbo nationalism is a range of ethnic nationalist ideologies relating to the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. While the term is defined as seeking...

Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà (English: Yoruba National Movement) is a Nigerian political organisation established in 1945 by Yoruba leaders in London. Its initial...

Addos, with their valiant Olofin Ashade Oteni actually pioneered Yoruba nationalism in Africa. This further affirm the great influence of Ado Kingdom...

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century. It arose amid a process of syncretism between the traditional Yoruba religion of West Africa, the Roman Catholic form of Christianity, and Spiritism...

Council. He was born in Sierra Leone in 1836 to liberated African parents of Yoruba origin. Johnson enrolled in a Church Mission Society (CMS) school, then...

Pakistani nationalism, Indian nationalism, Indonesian nationalism, Chinese nationalism, British nationalism, Spanish nationalism, and Russian nationalism[citation...

Organization of Emerging African States Republic of Oduduwa Ethnic group: Yorùbá ethnic groups in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Kwara, Òkun in Kogi...

Onitsha, where he learnt Igbo language. Staying in Lagos also exposed him to Yoruba; by the time he was in college, he had been exposed to different Nigerian...

predominantly Christian, being primarily made up of territory of the indigenous Yoruba and Igbo states in the west and east respectively. Following independence...

of cultures. The three largest ethnic groups are the Hausa in the north, Yoruba in the west, and Igbo in the east, together constituting over 60% of the...

Johnson, pioneer of African nationalism, 1836–1917. Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-1743-1. Eades, Jeremy Seymour (1980). The Yoruba Today. Cambridge University...

informal contractual obligations to the Yoruba. The rise of ubiquitous Hausa settlements in some major Yoruba cities is mostly attributed to the inter-ethnic...

Standard Yoruba has its origin in the 1850s, when Samuel A. Crowther, native Yoruba and the first African Anglican Bishop in Nigeria, published a Yoruba grammar...

father of Yoruba Theatre" Archived 24 January 2014 at archive.today, Daily Newswatch. Oduguwa, Adedara (16 July 2016). "Hubert Ogunde: Nationalism and Retrospect"...

Christians. The Yoruba political system in the southwest, like that of the Hausa-Fulani, also consisted of a series of monarchs, the Oba. The Yoruba monarchs...

from 1958 until 1966. Abayomi was born on 10 July 1896 in Lagos of Egbe-Yoruba origin. From 1904 until 1909, he attended UNA School, Lagos and then attended...

Adelabu was a self-described egotist who believed in the merits of radical nationalism, national unity and radical socialist ideology. Adelabu was born on 3...

is laid and the ceremony ends. Yoruba culture is the embodiment of the cultural practices and identity of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group predominantly...

Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo GCFR (/oʊˈbɑːsəndʒoʊ/ oh-BAH-sən-joh; Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́ [olúʃɛ́ɡũ ɔbásanɟɔ] ; born c. 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian...

organisation in Yoruba hands. During World War II, Awolowo reorganized it as a predominantly Yoruba political party, the Action Group. The Yoruba-Igbo rivalry...

(1966). The Mind of a Nation: The Yoruba Child. Ibadan: Ibadan University. (1968). Come Now Nigeria, Part 1: Nationalism and essays on relevant subjects...

forge Yoruba unity bringing together traditional and educated elites. Egbe was advertised as a nonpolitical organization for men and women of Yoruba Nationality...

musician and is considered by many Nigerians as the founder of Nigerian nationalism. Herbert Macaulay was born in Broad Street, Lagos, on 14 November 1864...