The oldest known textual reference to the name Yoruba is found in an essay (titled – Mi'rāj al-Ṣu'ūd) from a manuscript written by the Berber jurist Ahmed Baba in the year 1614. The original … 詳細

The Yoruba culture was originally an oral tradition, and the majority of Yoruba people are native speakers of the Yoruba language. … 詳細

Government
Monarchies were a common form of government in Yorubaland, but they were not the only approach to … 詳細

The word "Yoruba" has roots in a term Ori Obba meaning "the Head King". In the work, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains c.1863, the English ethnologist Richard F. Burton reports of a Yoruba account in 1861 stating this. Based on oral and written sources, this … 詳細

By the 8th century, a powerful kingdom already existed in Ile-Ife, one of the earliest in Africa. It was viewed by the Yoruba as capital of the realm of humanity, based on the … 詳細

Yoruba people have a sense of group identity around a number of cultural concepts, beliefs and practices recognizable by all … 詳細

In the city-states and many of their neighbours, a reserved way of life remains, with the school of thought of their people serving as a major influence in West Africa and elsewhere. 詳細