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 ...

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 ...

Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Writing A New History -- part II. Birth of the Yoruba Community of Practice, circa 300 BC-AD 1420 -- 2. The Emergence Of A House Society -- 3. Knowledge Capital And ...

The Ojude Oba festival is not only celebrated by people of Yoruba origin or Ijebu descent but also by about a million people from different parts of the world and Nigeria. Held annually on the third ...

What happened to all their previous claims? Before now, Igbos claimed that their ancestral origin was Nri where their mythical ancestral father, Eri, descended from with a chain many a millennia ago.

EJO ki i se tiaraeniki 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 ...

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, has described the Oyo Palace as a living museum that preserves Yoruba heritage and promotes unity among the people.In his remarks during the commissioning of the ...