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These names include: Àyìnlá, Àlàó, and Àjọkẹ́; Orúkọ Àbíkú. An Àbíkú is a child who cycles repeatedly, and within a short time frame, between life and death, thereby causing grief to the parents. The Yorùbá have a corpus of special names for the Àbíkú.
A review of the oral histories around abiku note that: "Such accounts (sometimes they are just hasty definitions) often mix facts about àbíkú with facts about ògbánje; represent àbíkú as homogeneous across time and space; fail to distinguish between popular and expert, official and heretical, indigenous and exogenous discourses of àbíkú; assume that the belief in àbíkú has a ...
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Pablo "Yoruba" Guzmán, one of the founders of the Young Lords Party and a veteran New York City reporter, has died.. He was 73. Guzmán died Sunday of a heart attack, Young Lords co-founder Juan ...
After the ritual, the child is named and members of the extended family have the honour of also giving a name to the child. The gift of a name comes with gifts of money and clothing. In many cases, the relative will subsequently call the child by the name they give to him or her, so a new baby may thereafter have more than a dozen names. [14]
She is the youngest of 20 children. [1] One of her older brothers is the musician and guitarist Toby Foyeh. Olowofoyeku was named after the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Folake Solanke. [6] Olowofoyeku has spoken about the importance of names in Yoruba culture.
Modupe Listen ⓘ is a Nigerian unisex given name of Yoruba origin which means "I give thanks". Forms of the name are Dupe , Modupeola , Modupeoreoluwa , and Modupeoluwa . Modupe is a unisex name but it is mostly given to female children.
Abidemi audio ⓘ (Abídèmí) is a Nigerian unisex name of Yoruba descent meaning "Born awaiting my return". It is commonly given to a male or female child when the father of the child is away on a trip/journey, Abídèmí falls under one of the categories of names in Yoruba language known as Oruko-Abiso, meaning ascribed/acquired names. [1]