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	Vanguard - Columns : Contamination of Yorubaland
		Yorubaland through the political contamination caused by the control of power by the reactionary PDP have lost what was its most potent weapon, unity of purpose when it comes to electoral decision.
		The PDP governors in the South West did not support this position as they do not see themselves as accountable to the Yoruba people but the feudal oligarchy that owns PDP and the leviathan that manipulated their emergence as governors of these states.
		Another June 12 anniversary is less than 36 hours away and it presents an avenue for the Yoruba, whose son, M.K.O. Abiola gave the nation its most truly nationally acceptable election to ponder over what PDP contamination has done to their domain.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/personalview/pv10062005.html (948 words)

	1822. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Liberian settlers united to form the largely self-governing Commonwealth of Liberia in 1839.
		In 1841, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Saro, began the Niger Mission.
		In 1857, he left Yorubaland to begin missionary work among the societies of the lower Niger and the Niger delta.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1514.html (380 words)

	Lagos, Nigeria - LoveToKnow 1911
		The general level of Yorubaland is under 2000 ft. But towards the east, about the upper course of the river Oshun, the elevation is higher.
		Southward from the divide the land, which is intersected by the nearly parallel courses of the rivers Ogun, Omi, Oshun, Oni and Oluwa, falls in continuous undulations to the coast, the open cultivated ground gradually giving place to forest tracts, where the most characteristic tree is the oil-palm.
		At its N.W. extremity the Lagos lagoon receives the Ogun, the largest river in Yorubaland, whose current is strong enough to keep the seaward channel open throughout the year.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lagos%2C_Nigeria (2580 words)

	Yorubas - LoveToKnow 1911
		It was not until the early years of the,9th century that the Yoruba came as far S. as the sea, when they founded a colony at Lagos.
		Yorubaland is a country of comparatively large cities.
		Oyo is exceeded in size by several other places in Yorubaland, where the inhabitants have grouped themselves together for mutual protection in walled towns.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Yorubas (1185 words)

	ADELEKE
		There are two varieties of kola grown in Yorubaland, "nitida" known in Yoruba as "abata," and "acuminata," known by the Yoruba as "gbanja." Abata is indigenous to the area, and gbanja is the main variety that is exported.
		It was introduced into Yorubaland as a cash crop in the 1890s, and by 1930, most of the supplies for the north came from the Yoruba areas.
		In different areas of Yorubaland, ownership of land is thought of as being "vested in the ruler on behalf his community, as being vested in descent groups, or as being vested in individuals" (Eades, pg.
	www.uga.edu /~aflang/YORUBA/PAPERS/ADELEKE.html (3164 words)

	Africa
		Yorubaland was an interesting anomaly, as its unification in the 1820's under the city-state of Ife led directly to the adoption of a program of selective modernization comparable only to that of Japan.
		In coastal West Africa and Yorubaland, peasant agricultural cooperatives sponsored by governments and private agencies created localized and democratic community economies that were able to compete with plantation economies.
		West Africa and Yorubaland achieved particular success, as their successful tropical crops achieved record crops that were eagerly consumed by the First World, and as many Brazilian and western European firms relocated their simple manufacturing plants to western Africa, in order to take advantage of the region's generally high level of education and low wages.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/tpafrica.html (6127 words)

	rootswomen.com - Ayanna - Yoruba Religion : The Cornerstone of Society
		From this we see how the hierarchy of the family unit is reflected in the hierarchy of the village and the political relationship between states in Yorubaland, a structure that has its origin in the hierarchy of the heavens of Olodumare, his Orisas, the ancestors and the Yorubas themselves.
		The political relationship between the sixteen states of Yorubaland and their allegiance to the Ooni of Ife is a direct manifestation of the Ebi social theorem as it applies to Yoruba political structure.
		These states of Yorubaland are linked in a commonwealth of sorts where all the Obas are brother owing fealty to each other and allegiance to their spiritual Father, the Ooni of Ife.
	www.rootswomen.com /ayanna/articles/10042003.html (2711 words)

	News -- Reuben Abati: Back to the Wild, Wild West
		It is meant to dispel established prejudices that the Yoruba are arrogant and contemptuous.
		Which is why I think that the so-called "earthquake" that hit Yorubaland last Saturday, ought to be investigated in terms of its historical and contemporary implications.
		In the fifties, Yorubaland was the theatre of the main politics that led to the factionalisation of Nigerian politics and the introduction of tribal politics.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/apr/18/24.html (1960 words)

	Michigan State University Press \| War and Peace in Yorubaland 1793-1893 \| Adeagbo Akinjogbin
		Whilst there is existing literature on Yorubaland in the nineteenth century, it has not taken a global, comprehensive look at the causes, course and consequences of the wars.
		With a view to filling this gap, a centenary conference of the 1886 Kirji/Ekiti Parapo Peace Treaty was held, with the prime objective of examining the socio-political and economic development of Yorubaland in the age of revolutionary wars.
		The four sections in the book group the papers from the conference into War and Peace in Yorubaland; the Generals and their War Tactics; External Involvement and the Search for Peace; and The Political and Cultural Consequences.
	msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=2071 (169 words)

	Africa Update Archives
		The two notable women’s guilds in pre-colonial Yorubaland were Egbe Alajapa, which traded in inanimate objects, especially food items, fruits and medicinal herbs, and Egbe Alarobo, which traded in animate objects like fowls, sheep, goats, etc. Apart from these, there were other specialized guilds of women traders usually named after their profession.
		From all indications, agriculture was central to all women’s occupational guilds in pre-colonial Yorubaland.
		In north central Yorubaland, several Igbomina women, especially in the districts of Illa, Ajase and Omu-Isanlu were also fully involved in agriculture as they took active part in the operations of farmers’ guilds in the pre-colonial period.
	www.ccsu.edu /Afstudy/upd5-2.htm (5689 words)

	The Yoruba family
		Yorubaland has at least nine cities with populations of more than 100,000, and has a 60-70 per cent rate of urbanization overall.
		According to tradition, the Yoruba migrated from the north-east between the seventh and tenth centuries, establishing Ile-Ife as their city of origin and spiritual capital, from which the sons of their mythic founder, Oduduwa, were sent forth to found their own cities and kingdoms (Lloyd 1974).
		An aspect of the division of labour that is often ignored but which puts women at some economic advantage in Yorubaland is that, except in the case of cash crops, Yoruba social expectation and conjugal etiquette forbids the farmer to carry his own farm products to the market to sell.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu13se/uu13se0e.htm (6475 words)

	Nigeria - The Southern Area
		Yorubaland takes in most of southwestern Nigeria and the peoples directly west of the Nigerian border in the independent country of Benin.
		The first university, founded in 1948, was at Ibadan in the heart of Yorubaland, as were the first elite secondary schools; the first research institutes for agriculture, economics, African studies, and foreign affairs; the first publishing houses; and the first radio and television stations.
		It was no accident that the first American-style land-grant university, linked for guidance during its founding to Michigan State University, was at Nsukka in Igboland, whereas the first universities in Yorubaland and in the north looked to Britain and its elitist traditions of higher education for their models of university life.
	www.countrystudies.us /nigeria/39.htm (1525 words)

	Nigeria - Yoruba Kingdoms and Benin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Unlike the forest-bound Yoruba kingdoms, Oyo was in the savanna and drew its military strength from its cavalry forces, which established hegemony over the adjacent Nupe and the Borgu kingdoms and thereby developed trade routes farther to the north (see fig.
		Yorubaland, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries established agricultural community in the Edo-speaking area, east of Ife, when it became a dependency of Ife at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
		Dependencies were governed by members of the royal family who were assigned several towns or villages scattered throughout the realm, rather than a block of territory that could be used as a base for revolt against the oba.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-9333.html (1060 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The term "Yoruba" encompasses about twenty-five separate groups, each one culturally different from the next.
		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.
	server1.fandm.edu /departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/yoru.html (166 words)

	Yoruba People
		Yorubaland was officially colonized by the British in 1901, but a system of indirect rule was established that mimicked the structure of Yoruba governance.
		It is estimated that at one time nearly 70 percent of people participated in agriculture and ten percent each working as crafts people and traders within the towns.
		Yorubaland is characterized by numerous densely populated urban centers with surrounding fields for farming.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/yoruba.html (631 words)

	Nigeria - The Yoruba Wars
		Oyo, the great exporter of slaves in the eighteenth century, collapsed in a civil war after 1817, and by the middle of the 1830s the whole of Yorubaland was swept up in these civil wars.
		The threat that Ibadan would dominate Yorubaland alarmed its rivals and inspired a military alliance led by the Egba city of Abeokuta.
		Dahomey, to the west, further contributed to the insecurity by raiding deep into Yorubaland, the direction of raids depending upon its current alliances.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/10.htm (310 words)

	Tunde Ojo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		The current pitiable state of the security in Yorubaland is itself hinged on the Nigeria’s unstable security environment created by the past and selfish undemocratic regimes.
		Also, the study would not be complete unless we examine the role played by the Yoruba people themselves, particularly, in undermining their own regional security.
		In treating the issue of political dimension of insecurity in Yorubaland therefore, this paper is divided into three parts.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/2004/database/ojo.html (330 words)

	Initiation - LoveToKnow 1911
		Initiation is sometimes religious, sometimes social, but in primitive society it has always the same character.
		Thus, in Whydah (West Africa) the young girls consecrated to the worship of the serpent, "the brides of the Serpent," had figures of flowers and animals burnt into their skins with hot irons; while in the neighbouring Yorubaland the power of enduring a sound thrashing is the qualification for the throne.
		In no country was the practice of initiatory rites more general than in the Americas.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /initiation (484 words)

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		Oyo-lle itself lies in the far north of Yorubaland, not far from the Bariba and Nupe areas, and it is possible that the original rulers were replaced by a dynasty from Nupe.
		In the early period of British involvement in Yorubaland, the interests of the missions, the traders and the administration often diverged.
		The implications of the events of the 19th century for the direction of change in the 20th were profound.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /YorubaT/yt2.html (9513 words)

	Awo Study Center - New Trend in Ifa Practice
		In Yorubaland where Ifa originated and where it is still being practiced in its pure form, Ifa has dual levels.
		Moreover, the distinction between the two levels is that an Ifa diviner is a professional, trained in the intricacies of Ifa and is expected to uphold the tenets of Ifa and the Orisas.
		In Yorubaland, the rule is still that of "Ifa training before initiation"the license to practice.
	www.awostudycenter.com /Articles/art_trend.htm (2094 words)

	Nigeria - Christianity
		African churches were founded by small groups breaking off from the European denominations, especially in Yorubaland, where such independence movements started as early as the late nineteenth century.
		Nevertheless, a wedding in the Anglican cathedral in Lagos was usually a gathering of the elite of the entire country, and of Lagos and Yorubaland in particular.
		Such families had connections to their churches going back to the nineteenth century and were generally not attracted to the breakaway churches.
	countrystudies.us /nigeria/47.htm (766 words)

	Kori Bead
		We must be careful to differentiate the drawn segi beads made in Yorubaland from the drawn kori beads that have attained the same name, segi.
		Certain beads were brought to Yorubaland and subsequently buried, while other beads were made of recycled scrap glass, perhaps broken vessels, dug in these same places.
		These were old beads that reached Yorubaland from the north, and only when the original segi beads were depleted did the Yorubas begin to produce other beads from scrap glass.
	www.beadbugle.com /html/kori_bead.html (3141 words)

	Yoruba Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Traditionally, Yorubaland was constituted by semi-independent states governed by kings.
		Under those twenty or more kings, a greater number of subordinate rulers, at least 1000, were responsible for single towns and villages.
		While Christian missionaries arrived in Yorubaland by the middle of the 19th Century, Christianity spread rapidly, and independent churches such as Aladura sprang up throughout Yorubaland by the earlier part of the 20th Century.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/sub/yoruba.html (507 words)

	According to Yoruba history, by the time the British came to colonize and subjugate Yorubaland first to itself and ...
		According to Yoruba history, by the time the British came to colonize and subjugate Yorubaland first to itself and later to the Fulani of Northern Nigeria, the Yoruba were getting ready to recover from what is popularly known as the Yoruba Civil War.
		One of the lessons of the internecine Yoruba wars was the opening of Yorubaland to Fulani hegemony whose major interest was the imposition of sultanistic despotism on Old Oyo Ile and present-day Ilorin.
		The most visible consequence of this was the adding of almost one-fifth of Yorubaland from Offa to Old Oyo to Kabba to the then Northern Nigeria of Lord Frederick Lugard and the subsequent subjugation of this portion of Yorubaland under the control of Fulani feudalism.
	www.yoruba.org /Magazine/Winter97/Wint9707.htm (671 words)

	Yoruba Glass Beads
		Yoruba powder glass beads are frequently confused with technically similar Ghanaian beads (all are cold-worked) because of the latter's contemporary dominance in powder glass, in contrast to the virtual extinction of the industry in Yorubaland.
		Such beads apparently have some age, indicated by their veneration even among groups removed from Yorubaland, such as the Krobo (southeastern Ghana), who covet the beads and endow them with mysterious properties and origins.
		Sadly, however, this bead was not collected in Yorubaland, but was found on a string of obviously Western chandelier parts that was said to have come from Nigeria (Rita Okrent).
	www.beadbugle.com /html/yoruba_glass_beads.html (5845 words)

	Africa Update
		Following the events which led to the destruction of Old Oyo, many people from Yorubaland settled in llorin, some of whom were weavers: In this way, the intermediary position of llorin on the north-south trade route provided an added advantage for her textile industry, especially when compared with others elsewhere.
		In the same vein, the Alaafin of Oyo and Ooni of Ife which are titles of great rulers of Yorubaland are depicted in their majesties with such characteristic paraphernalia as the crown, bead, heavily designed traditional dress and staff of office.
		In Yorubaland, it is customary to celebrate ceremonies such as marriage, naming of a new child, house-warming, wake-keeping and socio-cultural gatherings with choice cloths.
	www.ccsu.edu /afstudy/upd12-3.html (4716 words)

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