
#REDIRECT Yorùbá
The Yorùbá are the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, comprising approximately 26 percent of that country's total population, and numbering about close to 50 million individuals throughout the region of West Africa. While the majority of the Yorùbá live largely in the south-west of Nigeria, there are also substantial Yorùbá communities in Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil. The Yorùbá are the main ethnic group in the states of Ekiti State, Nigeria, Kwara State, Nigeria, Lagos State, Nigeria, Ogun State, Nigeria, Ondo State, Nigeria, Osun State, Nigeria, Kogi State, Nigeria, Edo State, Nigeria, and Oyo State, Nigeria; they also constitute a sizable proportion of the citizens of the Republic of Benin. The majority of Yorùbá people are Christians, with the Church of Nigeria, Catholic, Pentecostal, Methodist, and Indigenous churches having the largest memberships. Muslims comprise about a quarter of the Yorùbá population, with the traditional Yoruba mythology accounting for the rest. The chief Yorùbá cities are Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Akure, Ilorin, Ijebu Ode, Ogbomoso, Ondo, Ota, Shagamu, Iseyin, Osogbo, Ilesha, Oyo and Ife. Sport: Yorùbáland stadia include the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 capacity), Teslim Balogun stadium (35,000 capacity), Liberty Stadium, Ibadan (40,000 capacity). ==History== The Yorùbá were the most urbanized sub-saharan Africans in the pre-colonial era, and have a history of town-dwelling that goes back to 500 A.D. The wealth of the Yorùbá came from controlling the important trade routes to the coast. The pre-colonial Yorùbá had recently been forced further south by the Fula people who made extensive use of cavalry. The Yorùbá lost the northern portion of their region, retreating to the latitudes where tsetse fly made horses unable to survive. The Yorùbá were a loose confederacy that often saw wars between the city states. In theory all Yorùbá acknowledge the leadership of the ancient city of Ife in religious matters and the rule of the recently risen rulers of Oyo as political leader. The ruler of Oyo held the power to confirm or reject the leaders of the other cities, but this power could not always be executed. Most of the city states were controlled by heriditary monarchs and councils made up of nobles, guild leaders, and merchants. Different states saw differing ratios of power between the two. Some had an autocratic monarch with almost total control, in others the councils were supreme and the king little more than a figurehead. == See also == * Yorùbá language * Yorùbá mythology * Great African Civilizations == External links == * [http://www.geocities.com/seelagos Picture of Lagos] * [http://www.geocities.com/seeibadan Picture of Ibadan] * [http://www.geocities.com/nigeriacities1 Picture of Ilorin] * [http://www.soyombo.org A Yoruba family website] Ethnic groups of Nigeria
Seems the document is a mixture of both Yorùbá and Yorùbáland. Shall we seperate the two? :I agree. This is the same thing I'm looking at in the mixture of Lagos and Lagos State entries. Unfortunately, if we separate them as they are now there will be very little information on either page. I'll try to set aside some time in the next month to put together better pages for both topics. It seems to me that there should ideally be at least two Yoruba pages, one for the language, one giving a general description of Yoruba history. Then a separate Yorubaland page talking about the historical area. Or perhaps Yorubaland should remain a section of the general Yoruba entry until there's enough information there to justify a separate entry. User:Rjhatl 01:50, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC) Samuel Ajayi Crowther should be linked in somewhere since he was the fisrt person to write down the language--User:Petaholmes 01:44, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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#REDIRECT Yorùbá
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Yorùbá
The Yorùbá are the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, comprising approximately 26 percent of that country's total population, and numbering about close to 50 million individuals throughout the region of West Africa. While the majority of the Yorùbá live largely in the south-west of Nigeria, there are also substantial Yorùbá communities in Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil. The Yorùbá are the main ethnic group in the states of Ekiti State, Nigeria, Kwara State, Nigeria, Lagos State, Nigeria, Ogun State, Nigeria, Ondo State, Nigeria, Osun State, Nigeria, Kogi State, Nigeria, Edo State, Nigeria, and Oyo State, Nigeria; they also constitute a sizable proportion of the citizens of the Republic of Benin. The majority of Yorùbá people are Christians, with the Church of Nigeria, Catholic, Pentecostal, Methodist, and Indigenous churches having the largest memberships. Muslims comprise about a quarter of the Yorùbá population, with the traditional Yoruba mythology accounting for the rest. The chief Yorùbá cities are Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Akure, Ilorin, Ijebu Ode, Ogbomoso, Ondo, Ota, Shagamu, Iseyin, Osogbo, Ilesha, Oyo and Ife. Sport: Yorùbáland stadia include the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 capacity), Teslim Balogun stadium (35,000 capacity), Liberty Stadium, Ibadan (40,000 capacity). ==History== The Yorùbá were the most urbanized sub-saharan Africans in the pre-colonial era, and have a history of town-dwelling that goes back to 500 A.D. The wealth of the Yorùbá came from controlling the important trade routes to the coast. The pre-colonial Yorùbá had recently been forced further south by the Fula people who made extensive use of cavalry. The Yorùbá lost the northern portion of their region, retreating to the latitudes where tsetse fly made horses unable to survive. The Yorùbá were a loose confederacy that often saw wars between the city states. In theory all Yorùbá acknowledge the leadership of the ancient city of Ife in religious matters and the rule of the recently risen rulers of Oyo as political leader. The ruler of Oyo held the power to confirm or reject the leaders of the other cities, but this power could not always be executed. Most of the city states were controlled by heriditary monarchs and councils made up of nobles, guild leaders, and merchants. Different states saw differing ratios of power between the two. Some had an autocratic monarch with almost total control, in others the councils were supreme and the king little more than a figurehead. == See also == * Yorùbá language * Yorùbá mythology * Great African Civilizations == External links == * [http://www.geocities.com/seelagos Picture of Lagos] * [http://www.geocities.com/seeibadan Picture of Ibadan] * [http://www.geocities.com/nigeriacities1 Picture of Ilorin] * [http://www.soyombo.org A Yoruba family website] Ethnic groups of Nigeria
Yorùbá
Seems the document is a mixture of both Yorùbá and Yorùbáland. Shall we seperate the two? :I agree. This is the same thing I'm looking at in the mixture of Lagos and Lagos State entries. Unfortunately, if we separate them as they are now there will be very little information on either page. I'll try to set aside some time in the next month to put together better pages for both topics. It seems to me that there should ideally be at least two Yoruba pages, one for the language, one giving a general description of Yoruba history. Then a separate Yorubaland page talking about the historical area. Or perhaps Yorubaland should remain a section of the general Yoruba entry until there's enough information there to justify a separate entry. User:Rjhatl 01:50, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC) Samuel Ajayi Crowther should be linked in somewhere since he was the fisrt person to write down the language--User:Petaholmes 01:44, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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YorubaMan
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