Though the origin of the Yorubas remain enmeshed in controversies between the myth and the realities, legends and myths of origin are not peculiar to the Yorubas. In the study of history, ...

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is a state that's still grappling with its national identity in the wake of ethnic tensions and religious conflict. Own the Mask, Own the Town: Contesting ...

Atunto, a global Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has strongly condemned recent claims suggesting that the Igbo people once occupied Ile-Ife, the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba. In a statement ...

While Olagunju’s article sheds light on Nigerian history and identity complexities, I disagree with him on teaching compromised narratives to appease ethnic loyalties. This trend is becoming ...

Yoruba has transversed beyond mere language or the description of a certain set of people with shared origins. It has evolved into an ideology and conceptualisation bloc with cultural specificity that ...

A Professor of History and Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, Olukoya Ogen, has advised the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, to set machinery in motion for the floating of a ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has chided the British Broadcasting Cooperation, BBC, Yoruba language over the alleged distortion of Yoruba history. Oluwo reacting to a documentary aired by ...

Prominent Yoruba elders and leaders on Tuesday called for restraint and intervention of cultural and political figures following the reopening of hostilities between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem ...

L-R: Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi - Ojaja II and Alaafin Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade. [X, formerly Twitter/Yorùbáness] The battle between Ile-Ife and Oyo, it seems, is far from over. And once ...