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  1. History of the Yoruba people

    The documented history begins when Oranyan came to rule the Oyo Empire, which became dominant in the early 17th century. The older traditions of the formerly dominant Ile-Ife kingdom are largely oral. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Some towns and cities of the Yoruba people are collectively considered to be clans due to similarities in their origins and cultures. Several other cities, though non-Yoruba, have histories of being influenced by the Yoruba. These cities are Warri, Benin City, Okene, and Auchi. [8] The Yoruba diaspora has two main groupings. The first one is ...
  3. britannica.com

    Jan 17, 2025In a traditional Yoruba town the large and elaborate palace of the oba lies at the centre, and grouped around it are the compounds of the patrilineages. The palace and the compounds are now often modern structures. There is much diversity in social and political organization among the Yoruba, but they share many basic features. Inheritance and succession are based on patrilineal descent ...
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. Feb 23, 2024A history of the Yoruba people by Akintoye, S. A. (Stephen Adebanji), 1936-Publication date 2010 Topics Yoruba (African people) -- History Publisher Dakar, Senegal : Amalion Publising Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
  5. cambridge.org

    The origin of the Yoruba nation is involved in obscurity. Like the early history of most nations the commonly received accounts are for the most part purely legendary. The people being unlettered, and the language unwritten all that is known is from traditions carefully handed down.
    Author:Samuel Johnson, Obadiah JohnsonPublished:2010
  6. academia.edu

    History Main article: History of the Yoruba people Further information: Ife Further information: Yoruba religion Some Yoruba cities of the Middle Ages As of the 7th century BCE the African peoples who lived in Yorubaland, were not initially known as the Yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity and language group. By the 8th century, a ...
  7. cambridge.org

    Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican minister and historian renowned for his magisterial history of the Yoruba people. Born in Freetown in Sierra Leone and educated by the Church Missionary Society, Johnson was sent with his family to Idaban in Nigeria in 1857. He was ordained in 1880 and by 1897 had finished the manuscript for The ...
  8. theconversation.com

    The history. In the first half of the book, I account for how the Yoruba community evolved on the western side of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria about 4000 years ago and the ...
  9. goodreads.com

    A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a population of nearly 40 million spread across Western Africa - and diaspora communities in Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and North America - Yoruba are one of the most researched groups emanating from Africa.

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