Who Are The Yoruba People?
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Published 2022-12-15
Yorubaland is the homeland of the Yoruba people. With a population of 46 million the Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.
The Yoruba built one of the largest empires in West Africa and crafted some of humanity's finest art. Their artists are famous worldwide and no other African culture has affected the Americas and Caribbean as much as the Yoruba who left their mark through people, dance, food and the religions of Santeria, and Candomblé.
So who are the Yoruba, what is their history, and what does it have to do with a Galactic Universe Creating Chicken? Well, let’s find out.
This video was researched and written by Deborah Oliveira.
The illustrations were created by Chico De La Historia, twitter.com/ChicoDLHistoria
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BOOKS
A History of the Yoruba People by Stephen Adebanji
www.amazon.com/History-Yoruba-Stephen-Adebanji-Aki…
Encyclopedia of the Yoruba by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi
Adebisi Afọlayan - Yoruba language and literature
Niara Sudarkasa - Where Women Work A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home
Oyekan Owomoyela - Yoruba Proverbs
Baba Ifa Karade - The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts
Miguel C. Alonso - The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia
A. G. Hopkins - An Economic History of West Africa
Samuel Johnson - The History of the Yorubas (Old source but an iconic work in Yoruba history)
OTHER SOURCES
Black sand and iron stone: iron smelting in Modakeke, Ife, south western Nigeria
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/93632/
Ancient History of Technology in West Africa: The
Indigenous Glass/Glass Bead Industry and the
Society in Early Ile-Ife
www.researchgate.net/publication/317775780_Ancient…
artsandculture.google.com/story/ZgWB6Y0ZViQKJw
artsandculture.google.com/story/_QVxsVP8AxQtIw
artsandculture.google.com/story/qwXhr4ObJk0-JA
artsandculture.google.com/story/LQXhfRllJNZnOA
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language#Writing_syst…
www.jstor.org/stable/40341607?seq=1
www.worldhistory.org/Oshun/
www.bbc.com/future/article/20160922-the-nut-that-h…
artsandculture.google.com/story/12-facts-you-need-…
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-africa/west-afr…
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1939-3…
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/…
theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/history…
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/afri…
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-africa/west-afr…
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Yoruba+p… sortBy=Relevance pageSize=0
collections.lacma.org/node/175464
www.hamillgallery.com/YORUBA/YorubaCrowns/Crown08.…
escholarship.org/content/qt17c6d1sb/qt17c6d1sb.pdf…
plantworldnews.com/2022/02/whats-in-your-pot-afric…
www.academia.edu/5793680/Food_and_Culture_Continui…
www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/Promoting-th…
www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.%2022%20…
www.vam.ac.uk/articles/adire-tied-and-dyed-indigo-…
hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/Teach…
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About beads
archandanth.com/episode-145-interview-with-abidemi…
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I’m from Brazil and Cuba. 80% of my Dna is from the Yoruba people. My great great grandfather was a babalawo, his father was enslaved from Oyo by Dahomey. He was also a writer so he wrote about his life. He’s slave record shows his name was Adewale Adeniran but was changed to Manuel Dasilva. My mom is from cuba and tested her dna, most of her dna was for Yoruba people and Mbundu people from Angola/ Kongo.
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I am a Nigerian Yoruba girl. Greetings to my brothers and sisters. Love you all... "Oluwa a tunbo ma bukun wa"(God will continue to bless us). Amen
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I am a Yoruba from Ilorin. I regard this coverage of Yoruba history as close to accurate. The illustrations really brings so much context. However, I would like to point out one thing. If you say 'pele' to me, I would assume you meant to say sorry. The other ways to say hello in Yoruba is "enle o"; pronounced as "hen leh ooo". Alternatively, you can say 'enle nibe un' or "e pele nibe un" which loosely translate to hello there. How are you is "bawo ni"
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Sometimes we the Yorubas don't know how valuable is our culture and tribe. thanks to this video for shedding more light through this and telling the world what our culture and tradition is all about.
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It’s actually kinda wild that Nigeria archaeological findings changed how African art was globally viewed
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It's crazy how successful yoruba culture has been despite all of the suffering its people have endured throughout history. I'm from Bahia, Brazil and I have to say, we LIVE the yoruba culture. It's tangible how much it has influenced our culture over there and it's beautiful to see it. The religion of candomblé is present in everyone's lives in Bahia and even catholics will engage in Yoruba's tradition every so often.
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Am a Nigerian yoruba, shout out to our brothers and sister in South America and the Caribbean,Cogito 🙌🙌 100%
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My homeboy married a yuroba woman. I had to lie on the ground to to help him convince his soon-to-be father-in-law that he had enough money to take care of his daughter. It was kind of cool that I got a chance to give their firstborn son a name
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Yoruba are indeed the jewels of african Tribes, their history and culture is unique. Shout out to Our Yoruba brothers and sisters from Eritrea in East Africa :)
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I’m Haitian and there’s tons in Yoruba words used in Haitian Vodou. Ogun, Oshun & Chango especially
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Most of the Afrobeats are in Yoruba! The best ones especially are in Yoruba, the language is tonal and very good for music.
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As a Yoruba historian, i can say it is obvious a lot of research was put into this and not mere google/wikipedia or relying on popular but uninformed narratives about the Yoruba people. I have been following this chanel for a over a year now and i'm glad a video on the yoruba was made
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I'm African American and recently did a dna test and found out I'm 43% Nigerian majoriy of which is Yoruba descent, so all of this very interesting to learn of some of my ancestors
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Proud to be part Nigerian! My grandmother was from Lagos and she was Yoruba!
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I’m a Yoruba Princess from three ruling houses in Oyo, Ogbomosho and Ibadan. I’m very impressed with the efforts put into this video. Well done for this.
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As a Yoruba person, you did a very good job on my people. Èkushe!
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I am Yoruba and I am happy about this.
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The Yoruba have really kept a lot of their culture alive. I speak the Yoruba language though not Yoruba. They are sometimes unbelievably accomodating to other tribes. A yoruba woman actually made it her duty and keenly so too to introduce me at least to her lovely daughter on finding out that I was still single and I am not even Yoruba!
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I'm a son of the Candomble, with my best friend being a woman from Umbanda. I can honestly say Brazil's most beautiful things, which make up our identity today, were given to us by the Yoruba people. We will never forget their struggle and their pain, and will forever honor their sacrifice. Asè ♥
