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The paradox of tolerance states that “if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant”. “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”  people who are generally intolerant, must be dealt with, with intolerance. Or else you won’t have peace until they dominate your society.  If they cannot dominate, you will continue to struggle with them perpetually.

 

The theory that research has confirmed is the true definition of Yoruba women throughout Yoruba history. Yoruba women have always had vision and been hardworking while their daughters have always watched their mothers working hard. From there they have evolved into hard working women. Motherhood has never hindered Yoruba women from working hard. Different forms of historical sources corroborate this fact. If today, you come across a Yoruba woman who is not hardworking, then there must be something wrong somewhere. It is through vision, resilience, persistent hardworking, that wealth became generational among Yoruba women. For example, during the colonial times, the British feared and dreaded the Yoruba women. They refused to employ them, boycotted many of their trades, yet these women found a means to thrive. The colonisers then imposed heavy taxes on the women; and that was when the women collectively responded in full force. Enough is enough—and the rest became history.   Most ha...

  1000 years old ancient Yoruba glass and glass beads that contains piece of glasses with different colours ,glass making tool and glass making workshop was discovered at Igbo Olókun {Olokun Forest) ILÉ IFÈ Osun State Yorubaland, Nigeria. A newly discovered treasure trove of more than 10,000 colourful glass beads, as well as evidence of glassmaking tools, suggests that an ancient city in Yorubaland was one of the first places in West Africa to master the complex art of glassmaking, scientists reported. The finding shows that people who lived in the ancient city of Ile-Ife learned how to make their own glass using local materials and fashion it into colorful beads, said study lead researcher Abidemi Babalola, a fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. "Now we know that, at least from the 11th to 15th centuries [A.D.], there was primary glass production in sub-Saharan Africa," said Babalola, who specialises in African archa...

Jebba Bridge, Completed in 1915, the Jebba Railway Bridge was the first bridge to connect Northern and Southern Protectorate. The Yoruba built Yorubaland. Kwara State was created in 1967 when military brigandage illegally broke up the 4 regions that was agreed to at Lancaster House Constitutional conferences of the 1950s  #Yorubaland

  Oúnjẹ Ọmọ - the child’s provisioning Before the rise of the welfare state, the first and strongest safety net for older people was their children and kin. Across continents and centuries, the logic was reciprocal and unmistakable: parents pour their strength into children; in old age, the stream should flow back. Among the Yoruba, this pattern is not merely practical; it is ethical and beautifully phrased. The proverb says: “Bí òkété bá dàgbà, ọmú ọmọ rẹ̀ ní ń mu”  “When the giant rat becomes old, it suckles at its child’s breast”.  The image is tender and firm at once. It names the rightful reversal of flows in the human life cycle: strength and sustenance run from parent to child in the morning of life and from child to parent in the evening.  It is not a concession of pity but a recognition of justice. Children are morally obligated to cater for their parents, not only with money, but with presence, respect, and the small, visible acts that convert support into ...