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The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 20.7% of the country's population according to Ethnologue estimations, [27] [28] making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of ...
Moremi Ajasoro (12th century), legendary queen and folk heroine of the Yoruba people; Oba, Orisha of the river Oba; Oduduwa, divine king, according to tradition, first Ooni of Ife (r. c. 1100 AD), ancestor of many dynasties; Olagbegi Atanneye I (r. 1913–1938), paramaunt ruler of Owo Kingdom; Olagbegi Atanneye II; Olateru Olagbegi I (r. 1913 ...
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).
The Oku people or the Aku Marabout or Aku Mohammedans are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, primarily the descendants of marabout, liberated Yoruba people who were released from slave ships and resettled in Sierra Leone as Liberated Africans or came as settlers in the mid-19th century.
The Yoruba people believe that people live out the meanings of their names. As such, Yoruba people put considerable effort into naming a baby. Their philosophy of naming is conveyed in a common adage, ile ni a n wo, ki a to so omo l'oruko ("one pays attention to the family before naming a child"): one must consider the tradition and history of ...
Saworoide is a 1999 Nigerian political drama film, produced and directed by Tunde Kelani.It stars Kola Oyewo, Bukky Wright, Lere Paimo, Larinde Akinleye, Peter Fatomilola, Kunle Bamtefa, Adebayo Faleti, Kayode Olaiya and Doyin Hassan.
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