Yoruba in a sentence

He said the Yoruba have, therefore, concluded that they have the legitimate right and the duty to separate the Yoruba nation from Nigeria.

I have read articles by senior Yoruba journalists and intellectuals talking about Yoruba heritage and Igbo seeking to capture Lagos.

When asked why Igbo kidnappers operate freely in Yorubaland but Yoruba kidnappers would not dare it in the East, they claim it is because Yoruba are cowards.

The Yoruba Council Worldwide (YCW), led by its President Hassan Oladotun, has identified critical historical, political, and socio-economic factors contributing to the longstanding feud between the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups in Nigeria.

Yoruba prefixes: Major one is A- in Akilapa, Atoyegbe, Atobatele, Ajoke, etc. A- denotes the noun phrase ‘the person’ in the expression, but it acts as a prefix because most Yoruba names are nominalized forms of clauses.

He stated that the Yoruba forefathers such as the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo played vital roles in upholding the standard of education within the Yoruba race.

Kola Tubosun is a linguist currently based in the U.K. who created an online dictionary of Yoruba names after noticing that computers often red-underlined common Yoruba names, and also disregarded tonal accents necessary to write them correctly.

The YWC said that Yoruba nation was blessed with millions of men and women who were eager to serve Amotekun and urged that persons recruited and trained for service in Amotekun are, and must be, Yoruba.

It is often perceived that Yoruba movies are local and English is ‘posh’ and English actors make more money than Yoruba actors.

Leading Yoruba academic and Convener of YWC, Emeritus Prof. Banji Akintoye, made the announcement at a “Policy and Strategy Session for Yoruba Future” in Lagos.

Bam bam, who is from a typical Yoruba background in Ogun state, managed to slot into the role as a Yoruba bride to her Northern husband Rico.

I say Yoruba Christian family because there are times the Yoruba culture overshadows the Christian values.

Oduduwa's sons would be the founders of the different city-states of the Yoruba, and his daughters would become the mothers of the various Yoruba obas, or kings.

Aboyún kì í tọ̀ kọ́ mọ ínu ẹ b’ọlẹ, a wisecrack in Yoruba, literally saying, a pregnant woman will not urinate and experience a miscarriage.

A group of protesters under the aegis Concerned Oodua Defendants (COD), staged a protest in Ibadan on Thursday, calling on South-West governors to prevail on the leader of the pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo to step aside.

Akintoye, a Senator in Second Republic, asserted: “The Yoruba Self Determination led by me runs a struggle that is totally peaceful and law abiding.

Alaafin's son revealed that the late traditional ruler visited 27 Yoruba monarchs in their palaces to talk about Asiwaju's emergence as Nigeria's next President.

Amongst the event’s dynamic line-up of performances are Raka, an eight-piece ensemble that plays traditional music from the Balkans, Ayan De First and The Oduduwa Talking Drummers, who present authentic Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa music from Nigeria.

And as the Yoruba will say “you don’t begrudge a son for resembling his father”.

Another variant of this problem is the one that involves even people within the same ethnic group, say the Yoruba, for instance.