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, ...

Of recent, the lack of History lessons in our schools has been having very negative effects on what the people know to be the facts of history. Every “Jick and Jack” has been coming up with variations ...

A redefinition and distortion of a people’s history has perilous impact on land, resources and spirituality. No leadership or a people should allow it to stand. The distortion of history has led to ...

ILE-IFE – The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has challenged academia in Nigerian Universities to dissipate energy on proper documentation of the history of Yoruba race rather than relying on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has partnered with the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture to promote, preserve and protect Yoruba history. The project was presented ...

Ejo ki i se ti ara eni ki a ma mo da (One must be honest with oneself, even when judgement is uncomfortable).Any fair reflection on the present controversy surrounding the Alaafin’s place within ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has insisted that the Yoruba ancestral home is beyond Ile-Ife and urged historians working on the study of the Yoruba ancestral home to be ...

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has attacked the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, for declaring that he was the highest Oba in Yoruba land.