The quote for today is a page from Toyin Falola’s book, ‘Yoruba Warlords of the 19th Century’. To a lot of Yoruba Muslims. Islam means servitude to Usman Dan Fodio’s estate at Sokoto. They indulge in the same idiocy that ...
Read More »Agbe gi lo do tabi Bole kaja !!!
Resilience, Creativity, hard work, and the common destiny, unity of purpose of the Oodua (Yoruba) people. Oodua (Yoruba) ancestors were using this in the 1900s to Lagos, Our mothers used using to transport their food crops from every hinter Oodua ...
Read More »List Of Ajegunles In Oodualand (Yorubaland)
LAGOS STATE:Ajegunle, Ajeromi/Ifelodun LGAjegunle, Alimosho LG OSUN STATE:Ajegunle, Ife South LGAjegunle, Obokun LGAjegunle, Ola Oluwa LGAjegunle, Olorunda LGAjegunle, Orolu LGAjegunle, Ayedaade LGAjegunle, Boluwaduro LG KOGI STATE:Ajegunle, Ekinrin Ade, Ijumu LG OGUN STATE:Ajegunle, Ifo LGAjegunle, Ipokia LGAjegunle, Yewa.S LGAjegunle, Ado Odo/Otta ...
Read More »The Èkó(s) of the Oòduà (Yorùbá) Homeland.
Èkó-Ènde (Ìfẹ́lódùn LGA, State of Ọ̀ṣun)Èkó-Àkéte (Lagos Island LGA, Lagos State)Èkó-Àjàlá (Ìfẹ́lódùn LGA, State of Ọ̀ṣun)Èkó – Efun ( Amongst The Olukumi of Delta state) 2021 Edition of the Ọ̀tín-Èkó Festival where the Ọ̀tín River is celebrated by the Èkó ...
Read More »History: Oòduà (Yorùbá) Language
In fact, by the time the trade with Europe started, the Yoruba language had become the lingua franca for peoples beyond the Oòduà (Yorùbá) ethnic homeland. Writing about the Aja kingdom of Allada in 1668, Dapper said: “Their own mother ...
Read More »My Best Enemy: Part 1
“Prof, I have an update for you,” her voice said with urgency. It’s my “friend,” the one who doesn’t know whether or not to disclose to her daughter in Canada that the man she had always called father is not ...
Read More »My Best Enemy: Part 2
“I remember so very clearly when hooligans came to burn down your mother’s shop,” Aduke said. “It’s one of the most vivid memories that I carry from my childhood. I had seen you in school that same day, I think. ...
Read More »My Best Enemy: Part 3
Fear gradually gripped me, as I sat there in the hot shop with my father, my mother, and other relatives, waiting for a crowd of assorted characters gathered in front of the shop to set us ablaze. I was not ...
Read More »Sháyó Philosophy
Yesterday we met again to see if they had hot pepper soup at the local African joint. Logically, when these simple folks enter a pepper soup joint, it is like Ṣẹ̀lẹ́ enter spirit: matters get philosophically historical like a magical ...
Read More »Ògúndá Ogbè: Breaking News
Agongo sígo sígo The Ifa diviner called Agongo sígo sígo Agongo sìgo sìgo Another Ifa diviner called Agongo sìgo sìgo A dífá fún Ògúndá They were the diviners for Ògúndá Èyí tí ó tẹ̀hìn wá The one who came from ...
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