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  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 ...

  ORÍKÌ (The Yoruba golden way of nomenclature) Do you know that before colonialism and the slave trade, Yoruba don't bear surname as part of their own name? Before then, everybody bears his own name in a unique way. Bearing ones father's or grand father's name as surname actually began when the British came to our lands and brought their culture where men hold power and women are excluded. They brought the supremacy of the father's name becoming mandatory to be added as surname during primary school registration.  The Yoruba culture was to name an individual child in a unique way that is never seen anywhere else in the world. It is a format of 3 names i.e ORÚKỌ ÀBÍSỌ (personal name), ORÍKÌ (epithet), ORÍLÈ (ancestral totem name). For instance,  Adekola Ajani Ìkọ́ or Oladele Alabi Ọ̀kín. Let us look into each name identity and what it represents.* ORUKO ÀBÍSỌ: Oruko abiso is a personal name given to an individual based on family nobility or identity. ẹ.g  royal famil...