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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 century through the writings of visitors who documented their voyages through West Africa, particularly through those who visited the region geographically bounded by the Volta river to its west and bounded by the Benin river on its eastern ...
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, Togo and Benin, and covers a total land area of 142,114 km 2 (54,871 sq mi).
Yoruba culture consists of cultural philosophy, religion and folktales. They are embodied in Ifa divination, and are known as the tripartite Book of Enlightenment in Yorubaland and in its diaspora. Yoruba cultural thought is a witness of two epochs. The first epoch is a history of cosmogony and cosmology.
Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Trà Vinh (318,231 people, constituting 31.53% of the province's population and 24.11% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Kiên Giang (211,282 people, constituting 12.26% of the province's population and 16.01% of all Khmer in Vietnam), An ...
Yoruba may refer to: Yoruba people, an ethnic group of West Africa; Yoruba language, a West African language of the Volta–Niger language family; Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language; Yoruba religion, West African religion; Yorubaland, the region occupied by the Yoruba people; Yoruba, a genus of ground spiders
Yoruba copper mask for King Obalufon, Ife, Nigeria c. 1300 CE. The Yoruba are said to be prolific sculptors, [6] famous for their terra cotta works throughout the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries; artists have also made artwork out of bronze. [7] Esiẹ Museum is a museum in Esiẹ; [8] a neighbouring town to Oro in Irepodun, Kwara.
Some towns and cities of the Yoruba people are collectively considered to be clans due to similarities in their origins and cultures. Several other cities, though non-Yoruba, have histories of being influenced by the Yoruba. These cities are Warri, Benin City, Okene, and Auchi. [8] The Yoruba diaspora has two main groupings. The first one is ...
Literary Yoruba, also known as Standard Yoruba, Yoruba koiné, and common Yoruba, is a separate member of the dialect cluster. It is the written form of the language, the standard variety learned at school, and that is spoken by newsreaders on the radio.