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	Isokan Yoruba Magazine, Winter 1997
		Many Yoruba men and women in the Washington area and other metropolitan areas surprisingly believe that Yoruba associations should be strictly cultural or limited to picnic groups that must place a taboo on the discussion of the political well-being of the Yoruba within the framework of today's Nigeria.
		Several of such people expect to be taken with seriousness for what can only be an excuse for the endorsement of a system that has brutalized the psyche of millions of Yoruba people since the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election.
		Yoruba people who are making a living in the free political and economic space made possible by Americans and Europeans should not "call a dog a monkey" for their fellow countrymen and women.
	www.yoruba.org /Magazine/Winter97/Win9701.htm (635 words)

	Yoruba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yoruba were one of 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 Yoruba came from controlling the important trade routes between the coast and the hinterland.
		In theory, Yoruba city-states largely acknowledged the primacy of the ancient city of Ile-Ifẹ in religious and political matters, and the majority of traditional potentates claim to be descended from emigrants from the hallowed town.
		The Yorubas are one of the ethnic groups in Africa whose cultural heritage and legacy are recognizable in the Americas, despite the delibitating effects of slavery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoruba (2596 words)

	Lesson Plan - The People of Yoruba (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Yoruba are not bound by state borders but in fact occupy land mostly in Nigeria but are bound in the surrounding states of Benin and Togo as well.
		The main occupation of the Yoruba people is farming.
		Yoruba farm crops are yams, corn and cocoa.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /TLresources/units/byrnes-africa/anijen/background (285 words)

	Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba
		The batáliterally "speak" the Yoruba language and recite a litany that is crucial toparticular rituals.
		The Yoruba people of present-day Nigeria have a rich religious liturgy which includes hauntingly beautiful call and response songs and some of the most rhythmically complex drumming in the world.
		Yoruba religious ceremonies were practiced and preserved in the cabildos of Cuba as the slaves seemingly synchronized their masters' pantheon of Catholic saints with their own pantheon of orisha.
	www.bembe.com /conjunto (729 words)

	Yoruba Omo Oduduwa
		Yoruba is an ancient language that continues to acquire new speakers and new hybrid dialects everyday.
		In the Yoruba culture, when a man of lesser age wishes to greet a man or woman older than he is, he must lower himself on the ground and prostrate while the elder begins the conversation.
		In northern Yoruba towns, festivals are held in which each egungun dances through the town on a certain day, and on a final day, they all dance to the palace to greet the Oba (the King).
	www.uga.edu /aflang/YORUBA/ODUDUWA.htm (8074 words)

	Exploring Africa -> Students-> African Art-> Yoruba Beaded Regalia: Symbols of Power (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yoruba peoples in Africa live mainly in southwestern Nigeria (green) and the neighboring Republic of Benin (blue) (click here to see where these countries are located in the map of Africa).
		Many Yoruba peoples were brought to the Americas forcibly through the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the sixteenth century until the second half of the nineteenth century.
		Since among Yoruba peoples beads are an indicator of wealth and power, be aware of the use of beads in the oba's garb.
	exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu /curriculum/lm12/stu_actone.html (1416 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - 2003 Election: Assuming ethnicity rules
		If I were the Yoruba people, I would have consolidated the rare opportunity by preaching sermons of national consciousness than to meddle in cheap flmailing and insidious intrigues against the rest of the country and the southern partners in particular.
		If I were the Yoruba people, I would consolidate the rare opportunity by advising Oba-Sanjo to consider the right of the oil-producing states than to canvass the policy of divide and rule against the Igbo people and their neighbouring South-South.
		I wouldn't have massacred the people of Odi and Zhaki Ibiam.
	nigeriaworld.com /articles/2003/apr/132.html (1770 words)

	Isokan Yoruba Magazine, Winter 1997
		There is no better time for any noble and highly respected Yoruba son or daughter to be a politician than the present time because those we counted on sold their soul, betrayed their people, and pushed us into the present political quagmire.
		Good people should come and be a part of a progressive team bonded by the love for their people.
		My greatest disappointment in the picnic committee of which I was a member was that the picnic event was able to bring together the largest group of Yoruba people ever in the metropolitan Washington are and we failed to awaken the consciousness of the Yoruba community to the plight of folks back home.
	www.yoruba.org /Magazine/Winter97/Win9710.htm (1153 words)

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		Islam, Christianity, and the "traditional" Yoruba pantheon, the orisa, are all embraced in Yorubaland.
		The bond shared by all Yoruba peoples is the centrality of ritual to special occasions, as well as to everyday life.
		The Yoruba mentality, like that of the Mande people, can be traced backwards to their creation myths or cosmogony.
	server1.fandm.edu /departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/yoru.html (166 words)

	Yoruba People
		The arts of the Yoruba are as numerous as their deities, and many objects are placed on shrines to honor the gods and the ancestors.
		The oral history of the Yoruba describes an origin myth, which tells of God lowering a chain at Ile-Ife, down which came Oduduwa, the ancestor of all people, bringing with him a cock, some earth, and a palm kernel.
		Yoruba deities are known as orisha, and the high god is Olorun.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Yoruba.html (653 words)

	African Tribes - Yoruba People
		The Yoruba have started to become quite popular among Africans all over the world who claim the Yoruba as their family roots and follow the religion and culture of the Yoruba.
		The Yoruba originated from a people known as the Oyo who arose and became quite popular by their trading with the Portugues which gave them a large supply of guns.
		A comprehensive study of Yoruba, including a survey of the major Orishas, the deified spirits of ancestors and other spirits, the minor Orishas, details of priesthood and worship, the Yoruba conception of human beings, magic in Yorubaland, and the survival of hieroglyphics, emblems and other symbols.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/yoruba.htm (429 words)

	Yak's Corner
		Yoruba is one of the most artistically rich African cultures.
		The Yoruba culture is also alive in Brazil, Trinidad and Cuba, where many people are descendants of Yoruba who were brought to the New World.
		Most of the people who live in the kingdoms return to their family towns at least once a year.
	www.yakscorner.com /stories/yoruba.htm (433 words)

	Egbe Omo Yoruba: National Association of Yoruba Descendants in North America: Yoruba People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oduduwa is the legendary progenitor of the Yoruba.
		These original founders of the Yoruba nation included Olowu of Owu (son of Oduduwa's daughter), Alaketu of Ketu (son of a princess), Oba of Benin, Oragun of Ila, Onisabe of Sabe, Olupopo of Popo, and Oranyan of Oyo.
		Afonja was the Kakanfo, the generalsimo of the Army, in the northern Yoruba town of Ilorin, during the reign of Awole and his successor.
	www.yorubanation.org /Yoruba.htm (1715 words)

	Yoruba History Page
		To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River.
		Yoruba slaves were sent to British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the New World, and in a number of these places Yourba traditions survived strongly.
		Santeria, the adaptation of Yoruba and Ifa with Catholicism, came to the states first with Puerto Ricans in the forties and fifties and then with the flood of Cuban refugees in the sixties.
	www.cultural-expressions.com /ifa/ifahistory.htm (744 words)

	INTRO (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to Yoruba mythology, the Yorùbá people are all descendants of Oduduwa, a mythological figure through whom the world had started at Ile Ile, the cradle of mankind.
		In Brazil, Nago is the Yoruba dialect that is spoken, in Cuba, it is Lucumi and Trinidad Yoruba is used widely in the West Indies.
		In the Yoruba classes at UGA, We learn about the cultural values of this collective identity and ensure a substantial level of practical knowledge about the cultures of the Yoruba people.
	www.uga.edu /aflang/YORUBA/People.html (590 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- 2003 Elections: The triumph of Awolowo's ideals
		With the results of the just concluded elections, what the Yoruba nation is saying is that "Afefe ti fe, a ti ri furo adiye" meaning that "the breeze has blown and exposed the behind of the hen." It is a testimony to the sophistication and the education of the average Yoruba voter.
		The Yoruba as a people and a nation is not ready to perish, hence the rejection of the pretenders to the Awolowo's political legacy.
		While one is very nervous about the absence of a coherent visionary leadership for the Yoruba nation as at present, one could still revel in the understanding that the Yoruba people have conveyed their appreciation of the urgency to dump fake "Awoists" and search for true leaders rather than dealers.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/oyeyemi/042203.html (1639 words)

	Yoruba (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There are 20 million or more people who speak Yoruba as their mother tongue.
		Yoruba culture and religion have profoundly influenced the African diaspora in Brazil, Cuba and other New World countries, even among communities where the language itself is completely or partially forgotten.
		The Yoruba people are one of the two largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, being concentrated in the southwestern part of that country.
	www.flw.com /languages/yoruba.htm (119 words)

	Yoruba on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The old Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was traditionally one of the largest states of W Africa, but after the mid-1700s its power slowly waned.
		Vestiges of Yoruba culture are also found in Brazil and Cuba, where Yoruba were imported as slaves.
		Baba Adebayo Ogunrinu Ogundijo, a Yoruba priest and Nigerian professor, shows palm seeds used in rites during a conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 18, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/y/yoruba.asp (959 words)

	Egbe Omo Yoruba: Autonomy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The mission of Egbe Omo Yoruba is to address and resolve the crisis of an uncertain future that faces Yoruba people in their ancestral home in the geographical space of Nigeria.
		But these Yoruba men and women are still now returning to these countries for lack of opportunity at home and because they still face unwarranted harassment in their own land of birth.
		In view of the foregoing, the time has come for Yoruba people world-wide to make the unity, empowerment, and autonomy of the Yoruba nation a task that must be done within the context of a true federal union.
	www.yorubanation.org /Autonomy.htm (1468 words)

	Yoruba People / Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Genuine coral was highly favoured by the Yoruba people, but very scarce, and too expensive to buy.
		The older beads are usually very well finished and their surfaces are usually polished and shiney, whereas beads from later manufacture have a matte surface.
		Yoruba powder glass coral imitation beads come in a number of different shapes and sizes.
	www.beadcollector.net /cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/openforum?cmd=get&cG=2393938333&zu=3239393634&v=2&gV=0&p= (115 words)

	African People and Culture -Tribes
		The Afar people live primarily in Ethiopia and the areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa.
		Among the people groups in Africa they are unique in that they have kept and continued to develop their own culture even in the midst of Islamic invasions which have conquered and adapted many of the current people groups
		The Tuareg people are predominently nomadic people of the sahara desert, mostly in the Northern reaches of Mali near Timbuktu and Kidal.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes (889 words)

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		The name of Chief Awolowo is sacred among the Yoruba people, because the avatar had always kept his words and respected the opinions of his colleagues and followers; the democratic space had always remained open to all willing participants.
		Many clever Yoruba politicians have always invoked the good name and goodwill of Awolowo for their own selfish interests but have disregarded the interests of the masses which Chief Obafemi Awolowo held to be sacrosanct.
		The separation was done at two different centres, while the Yoruba Council of Elders strongly articulating the interests of the Yoruba people at its inaugural meeting recently at Ibadan by bringing in all Yoruba people of diverse political, social and religious persuasions started to clip the wings and the overbearing attitudes of Afenifere.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /sarticles/squandering.htm (1688 words)

	OLODUMARE: GOD IN YORUBA BELIEF AND THE THEISTIC PROBLEM OF EVIL.
		Very few people who really know the Yoruba can escape the uneasy feeling that there is something inadequate, to say the least, about such a notion; and it is the "uneasy feeling" that led to my investigation of what the Yoruba actually believe about the Deity (1).
		Such a mistaken conception of the Supreme Being among the Yoruba is consonant with the general attitude of the European colonialist who, out of ignorance, derided the culture, custom, religion, political organization, science, commerce, etc., of the so-called "primitive" peoples of the world.
		This concerns the belief ascribed to the Yoruba people by Dopamu that, since the Yoruba believe that God does no evil, it must mean that it is Satan or Esu that is responsible for all evil.
	www.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v2/v2i1a1.htm (7832 words)

	YORUBA RELIGION
		The religion of the Yoruba people in West Africa, who live in Nigeria and Benin, is a thousands of years-old tradition of nature worship and ancestor reverance.
		The rhythms and forms of Yoruba religion are said to be fundamental to the development of many forms of African American music from gospel to blues and jazz, and to musical forms such as Salsa and Latin Jazz.
		Ironically, while in the New World Yoruba religion is in a period of modest ascendency, in Nigeria itself it is being eclipsed by forms of Islam and Christianity, especially evangelical protestantism.
	members.aol.com /ishorst/love/Yoruba.html (716 words)

	Adherents.com
		These states are primarily Yoruba, with the percentages of Yoruba in the population ranging from 89.2% for Ondo state to 97.7% in Ibadan State.
		A preponderance of them, especially in Brazil and Cuba, were members of the Yoruba (or Nago) people, who practiced a religion that made extensive use of animal sacrifice in which some part of the sacrificial animal was consumed.
		Beginning in the seventeenth century, Yorubas were brough to America as slaves.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_671.html (3178 words)

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		The Yoruba are one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, concentrated in the south of the
		The link that unites all Yorubas, even through the diaspora, is the honor of gods through the maintenance of history and religious traditions ("Cutting to the Essence-Shaping to the Fire").
		Yorubas claim that women possess the secret of life itself with both the powers to bring and remove life, in the form of beings into and out of the world.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Yoruba.html (565 words)

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		Even though this is the case, one look at a Yoruba ritual will soon convince you that there is another, more fundamental, ideology at the core of their beliefs.
		In fact, the Yoruba notion of play is very serious indeed and is at the heart of their most sacred rituals and their everyday lives.
		The Yoruba egungun and many other festivals like it are performed in the exact same way that the ancestors of the participants performed it.
	server1.fandm.edu /departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/Yrelig.html (1005 words)

	IDST 2310 The Fine and Applied Arts in Civilization
		For the Yoruba people, beads are marks of distinction.
		They are used to signify important people in their culture, important political leaders, important religious leaders, and important marks of distinction.
		For the Yoruba people then, the act of beading is a metaphor for life itself.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/fap/yoruba.htm (1023 words)

	University of Oregon News Releases
		He is an Egungun masquerader, seen by the Yoruba people of West Africa as a spirit being whose power and presence can be invoked by the living.
		People wonder why the good things happen to them, too, such as healthy births, the love of families and success in life.
		The exhibit also includes a statue of King Ewuare, a great 15th-century king who unified the people of Yoruba, as well as the dun-dun, the pressure drum formerly called the "talking drum." It is used for ceremonies and also was used to send messages from one place to another.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~uocomm/newsreleases/latest/dec98/P122998_2.html (1410 words)

	AfroCubaWeb: the African cultures in Cuba - Yoruba - Congo - Dahomey - Abakwa - Bricamo - Haiti - West Indies
		His people fought off 5 attempts at a second coronation by corrupt elements, resulting in over 20 machete wounds and 1 dead.
		Lazaro Ros, Cuba's greatest Yoruba singer, dies on 2/8/05.
		Oggun: An Eternal Presence celebrates the life of Lazaro Ros, Yoruba singer, $25, DVD or VHS.
	www.afrocubaweb.com (4074 words)

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