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  Elehinle Festival, Okemesi-Ekiti. There are countless water beings in Yorùbaland, Ehinle is one of them. The Elehinle is a river diety with beautiful historical records. Names with Omi (Water) prefix like Omidiran, Omidiji are children or descendants of this Òrìsà. Every year, people are out in numbers to celebrate the Òrìsà the same way their ANCESTORS used to. Ire o. Adulawo TV

  What makes you “Yorùbá”? “Despite differences in Yoruba dialects, the subgroups share essential cultural characteristics. Tunde Akinwunmi and Asiwaju have suggested eleven features or cultural traits for the core definition of the Yoruba: i) They claim that their ancestor was Oduduwa. ii) They regard Ile-Ife as their cradle, or point of first origin. iii) They all have praise songs, cognomens, or oriki about themselves. iv) Their greetings commence with “E ku,” “Aku,” or “Okun o.” v) They were traditionally agrarian. vi) They form monarchical governments. vii) They are highly urbanised people. viii) They believe in Ifa and Ogun deities and the concept of destiny, or órí. ix) They dress differently from other, non-Yoruba-speaking people. x) They practice customs specific to the Yoruba people, such as the way they greet elders by prostration and kneeling and the way they conduct weddings and burials. xi) The lands occupied by the different Yoruba-speaking groups are geographically cont

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know that the Yoruba tradition was a woman kept her name on marriage. Remember asking my grandmother about this as her name did not change on marriage. I got a lecture on how it was Islam and Christianity that brought in the changing of names by women on marriage. That the two Abraham religions also brought in the changing of women's role in the society. This from a woman born at the start of the 20th Century before the Royal Niger Company Nigeria. More evidence that Yoruba people had a rich vibrant tradition before the arrival of Islam and Christianity. Yoruba need to recapture her traditional values as she embraces the future. #greatyorubapeople #OduduwaNation

18 February 1977 Obasanjos soldiers threw Madam Kuti from a 1st floor window of Felas house, she later died from her injuries. To date nobody has been punished for her murder. Obasanjo and his murdering class of 1966 called them unknown soldiers. Madam Kuti was a key participant of the Constitutional Conferences at Lancaster house in the 1950 s. Her activism for Nigeria is the stuff of legends The Kuti family is an example of what happens when you serve Colonial enterprise Nigeria, they use you then spit you out and forget your sacrifice. May she continue to rest in power. #greatyorubapeople #ProudlyYoruba

May 1962, the Western Region Constitution was suspended by the criminals in army uniform. Awolowo had been put in prison on charges of treason. Sensible people at the time said deal with the problem that led to suspension of Western Region Constitution, you have a Constitutional crisis on your hands. Did the Political class listen to the voice of reason? no they worked with the Khaki boys to have an election in 1963. That and others led to January 1966 and the subsequent death of millions. In 1992 a series of events took place that led to the annulment of MKO mandate in 1993.  Many died and the class of 1966 went and got their head house slave OBJ from prison to act as their front. In 2023, there's another Constitutional crisis.  Everyone knows there's no Constitution just Decree 24 that's being used by the class of 1966 who hijacked the carcass of what our forefathers agreed to. The political class along with the class of 1966  like men of low mentality are rushing headlon

 

Customary law Yoruba people had a system of customary law which they developed over hundreds of years and it served them well before the arrival of the colonial plantation Nigeria. This is where customs, patterns of behaviour, are accepted by a society as legal. It is based on obligations, rules of conduct, practices and beliefs which is vital and forms part  the social and economic system of a people. Why raise this because research shows that we can be effectively and fairly judged by our peers. They can do this simply with knowledge of their fellow human being, ability to reason and facts of the case. It seems this system is less corrupt than one that uses a judge. Presently the Yoruba nation still uses customary law for marriage and inheritance. Oduduwa Republic will expand this and use it as a basis of a Yoruba legal jurisprudence to include all aspects of life. Customary law will be an important part of the Oodua Department of Justice. The use of customary law will be updated for

 

 

  " when the missionaries came to Africa they had the bible and we had the land, they said 'let us pray'. We closed our eyes. when we opened our eyes, we had the bible they had the land". - Jomo Kenyatta 

 Symbol of Lagos, Yorubaland. Aro Meta popularly called the “three wise men” is meant to welcome people coming into the city of Lagos. The Aro Meta, a white granite sculpture of three Lagos white-cap chiefs is not just a mere sculpture; it is rich in its meaning. The three sculpted chiefs depict the three kinds of traditional greetings on Lagos Island (Eko). Eko refers to the indigenous people of Lagos occupying mainly Lagos Island. Their clenched right fists symbolize a strong belief in the supremacy of the right over the left. All of them display clenched fists with the right hand always placed over the left. Not only that, the statues also robed in intricately tied wrappers with the ends flung across the right shoulder. This is not a coincidence, because in the Yoruba culture, the right hand signifies acceptance and respect while the left hand is viewed with revulsion because it is often used to perform unsavory tasks and chores. Initially, Aro Meta was located at the former Lagos-I

  Aboru Aboye... The Irunmole Osanyin: Deity of Plant-Life and Medicine Osanyin is the Orisa of all plant-life, healing and magic. He is known as a powerful master of all spells and crafts found in the wild and the untamed areas of nature. The properties of herbs and plants are recognised for both their spiritual and physical qualities. It is believed that the force that drives the universe (known as ase) is, in part, located in plants. Those with the knowledge of plant-life and their power can unlock their ase. The rites indigenous to the faith of the Yoruba cannot exist without the plants and herbs provided by Osanyin. It is his magic that is used to conjure the shrines dedicated to the other orisas.  Hence, without him, none of the ceremonies can happen. Osanyin is depicted as a disfigured, impish man, with one eye, one hand, one foot, one tiny ear that can hear a pin drop, and one enormous ear that hears nothing. He stores all his magic in a calabash that is hung high in a tree, ou

 

 

 

Colonial existence under imperialist conditions necessitates a fierce and constant struggle for emancipation from the yoke of colonialism and exploitation.  The aim of all colonial governments in Africa and elsewhere has been the struggle for raw materials; and not only this, but the colonies have become the dumping ground and colonial peoples the false recipients, of manufactured goods of the industrialists and capitalists of Britain, France Belgium and other colonial powers who turn to the dependent territories which feed their industrial plants. This is Colonialism in a nutshell.  The basis of colonial territorial dependence is economic but the basis of the solution of the problem is political. Hence political independence is an indispensable step towards securing economic emancipation.

The Yoruba help others while others help themselves Need to remind Yoruba that your 1st community is other Yoruba's. Its simply common sense. No one who puts others above their own survives, its the way humanity is built. #weareourownleaders #everygenerationisanewpeople

The Yoruba and other Southerners have yet to realise that the so called elections.are simply a tool to destroy them through mis governance. 

Colonial enterprise will destroy the Yoruba by legislation, when you start a company and try to register it, the amount of money and forms you have to pay to that cesspit of governance called the the Corporate Affairs Commission CAC is excessive. If you don't pay the touts, nothing will be done and even after you have paid, still takes a great deal of time.