The Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has disputed the claim that Ile-Ife is the origin of the Yoruba race. The royal father said the culture of the race is not in the ancient town ...

Every language has its peculiarity, languages make up the entirety of any culture. It is also usually common to have some words in a language share similarities in pronunciation and meaning to another ...

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, ...

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 ...

A race of giants. The Yoruba had been producing monumental men and women long before Nigeria became a country. Professor Adelola Adeloye’s ‘African Pioneers of Modern Medicine’ (1985) has a list of ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has stated that Ile-Ife should not be regarded as the origin of the Yoruba race. Oba Akanbi made this known in a video posted on his official ...

The Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has dismissed the claim of Ile-Ife, in present-day Osun State, as the source of the Yoruba race. Oba Akanbi stated this in a video shared on his ...

Ralph Appelbaum Associates has designed the exhibition interiors of the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos, Nigeria. As an all-encompassing celebration of Yoruba art, fashion, ...