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Ẹ Káàbọ̀! (Step Into the Beautiful World of Yoruba Words That English Cannot Fully Translate)
TODAY’S LANGUAGE LESSONYoruba words and expressions that don’t have a perfect one-word English equivalentEnglish needs an entire sentence to explain these Yoruba words.You think you can interpret all Yoruba words to English directly with just one word? Okay.Tell me the interpretation of OMOLÚÀBÍSo what’s the closest English word you can think of?“Good person,” right? No“A person who is respectful, responsible, honest, hardworking, and well-raised” yesAnyways, let’s get into today’s lecture ÌwàLiteral translation: Character, behaviorBut “ìwà” is much deeper. It refers ...
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The Day a Woman Ended the Reign of Terror: Moremi and the Bandits of Ile-Ife
MOREMI AND BANDITRYHistory teaches us that the banditry the Yoruba people are experiencing today is not new.Long ago, the people of Ile-Ife lived under constant attack from a group of raiders known as the Ugbo.To be clear, the Ugbo were not the same as the Igbo, the present-day people who live east of Odò Ọya.The Ugbo attacks were unpredictable. No one knew exactly when they would strike. The only certainty was that they would come.Whenever the Ugbo raided Ile-Ife, they ...
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What is Isese?
Some say Isese is a religion.Some say Isese is a spirituality.I say Isese is the collective culture, traditions, worldview, and ancestral heritage of the Yoruba people.Before Christianity and Islam arrived in Yorubaland, our ancestors already had names, languages, governance systems, philosophies, ethics, arts, festivals, rites of passage, medicine, and ways of relating to the divine. These are all aspects of Isese.Not every Yoruba person practices traditional “worship” today, but every Yoruba person is connected to Isese through ancestry, culture, language, ...
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PBI: Orisa/Orisha aren’t SAINTS.
They aren’t synchronized with anyone. Sango is NOT a mute white woman, trapped inside a castle. Eshu is not a cute holy child that you give candy to. Because these saints may have displayed traits of the Orisha does NOT make them the same. I am a saint. Would you pray to me for your roads to be opened? Of course you wouldn’t, why would you give offerings and pray to other people? This is a colonist trap in which ...
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