Blessed to see focus spread on neglected regions of Africa. West Africa so often feels reduced down to Timbuktu and maybe Mali. The Yoruba peoples deserve this respect and the conflict between native and Islamic traditions in Ilorin is an incredible glance at the diversity and inter connectedness of the region
Yes, there is conflict regarding the legacy spoken about in this video. It is in fact our chief conflict. But somehow, we Yorubas haven't caved in to letting religion rend us. Looks like we have a very strong sense of community
Yoruba Nation was just re-birthed and we are NOT going back to one Nigeria!!! None of the nations lumped together under "One Nigeria" have anything in common, except being forced to speak English!!! These were separate nations, before the arrival of the colonial invaders who joined these nations together for the benefit of the colonial masters. The so called Niger-Area is exactly what it is, a "British Plantation," created for the Benefit of Britain without regard for the people of the region. Yoruba Nation is revived and has fully reclaim its precolonial identity!!! Long live the Great Yoruba Nation!!!
The issue in Nigeria is not about religious, Fulani that has no land want to to take our God giving land and all this happen because that is the work is British and royal family. with what happened to Yoruba race in times back from the white people. we want our identity back has Yoruba race we are not Nigeria but Yoruba kingdom and nation....
Stop calling your people tribe, Yoruba,Hausa,Kanuri,have empires centralize government and impressive civilization. There is nothing tribal about them.
@@MrMetro-mt5qv kmt is kemet aka Egypt but in my opinion I'd say that culture was better than Yoruba culture. Because Yoruba culture didn't contribute anything to the global society what so ever. Unless you can show me different
While growing up in the 70s and 80s, we would hear older people say things like "He's coming from Tim-buck-too". And we knew it was a reference to far away or uncertain distance, etc. But I didn't realize that Timbuktu is an actual civilization until I was well in my 30s!! Thank you for introducing so much fascinating information about Africa!💯⚜️
yes, it has always been an expression for indicating what you said or for referring to getting lost somewhere, example: "Don't follow his instructions, you'll end up in Timbuktu!!"
Proud Yoruba descendant by the way of Cuba and Puerto Rico. The Yoruba religion IFA is my family religion. The Yoruba corpus of IFA are thousands of philosophical stories and proverbs that are thousands of years old. This is cool but the traditional corpus of IFA is incredible ancient African philosophy that is not Arabized 🙏🏾
Very true. From the perspective of the Western educational system, people easily ignore the extremely vast and ancient Ifa literary corpus because it was passed down orally and we are taught to depend on written sources
@@proverbalizer Yep, plus the Arab thing was only relegated to the municipality mentioned in the video which was seeking expansion and got brought to an abrupt end when Ibadan stopped it at Osogbo, whereas the literally corpus was actually global for us Yorubas
I'm a big fan of your work, thanks so much for the exposure you're giving to Africa. I'd like to ask if you have any videos or information about the Igala people in Nigeria.
I loved this a lot! I'm Nigerian so I'm familiar with all the tribes. That was very nice. I also learned a lot of new stuff like the exact time when the Sokoto Caliphate brought in Islam. Fascinating. Even though the pronunciation of every single non-english word left me stressed out😅
He said it himself that the Sokoto caliphate did not bring in Islam. There was some Islam there prior. The Sokoto caliphate brought in war. It is this war and turmoil that led to Oyo's collapse, Dahomey's rise, and the entire history of civil war that plagued the interior Yorubas for the main part of the 1800s
@@antnam4406 I guess this is my fault for being unclear because that wasn't my main point, but I was referring to the rise of scholarship and writing as discussed in the video. The writing style he spoke about had heavy influence from Danfodio, hence me referring to the involvement of the Sokoto Caliphate. I didn't know he was that influencial on them. I think I have to disagree that Fulani trade didn't influence the spread of Islam in Yoruba land before that though. So let me say "I also learned new stuff like the exact time and ways the Sokoto Caliphate's versions of Islam impacted Yorubaland."
@@atgs20 Agreed. But Bornu isn't in Yorubaland. Islam travelled to Yorubaland through trade and migration, and likely through Nomadic Fula people. At the time of Mansa Musa there was a lot of this kind of organic spreading from the little I understand. Not sure how Bornu would have played a role in that.
Thank you so much for all of your teaching. You bring so much joy and happiness to countless people, that listen and learn from you. You are appreciated and a wonderful teacher. We are awaiting your next masterpiece.
Please when you get the time and interest, please consider a video on The Yoruba Revolutionary Wars and the war known as The Jalumi war, what led to all of it, how it affected the Volta-Niger West African sub-region, and how this all further contributed to further dispersion of people into the diaspora
After finding some gorgeous Byzantine illuminated manuscripts with clearly Africans in the illustrations (also the artists in some cases) I’ve been hooked on the interrelationship between African “principalities” and the Byzantine empire. Also, really enjoying this video!
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Those are the important ones, unfortunately this really just focuses on the surface and a very recent development at that. Afrika n scholarship goes so much deeper than the Abrahamic religions
The real liberation of Ethiopians, Eritrean and Somalians will come in the future ONLY when you guys embrace your true origin as HAMITIC and not the colonial Semitic you wanna associate with. Free yourselves from mental slavery, see every other African country has and is developing better and faster!
It fills me with so much sadness that alot of nigerians today have little to know idea on their history and the nigerian government is making no move to keep the knowledge of this alive
It is a very important point that this video is not about the writing and scholarship in Oyo, but about the writing and scholarship in Ilorin, which is only a part of Yorubaland and the part most responsible for its destruction in the 1800s. Oyo has never and will never want to use Arabic letters and scholarship is most dense in the parts of Yorubaland that didn't have this history. Oyo uses the latin script, and there is an older marking system which the king's messengers used to leave messages in town centers. Ilorin posed itself as an antagonistic caliphate and killed people to drive the religious point. In the 1800s, Ilorin was Oyo's primary enemy and it is precisely because of the type of system imported from the Sokoto caliphate. The Oyo capital was, in following, destroyed by the Ilorins (some Muslim Yorubas, some Hausas, led by some Fula) when the King of Oyo and his close King of Bariba ally, faced the Ilorins at Ilorin and both died on the front. The Ilorins then proceeded to completelty destroy the Oyo capital which led to Dahomey wiling out on the coast and formation of a new Yorubaland military city called Ibadan which rose to stop the further incursions of the jihad and regain control of the region. The Ibadans won gladly, and that is why Yorubas put a lot of emphasis on scholarship today. The best univerity in Nigeria, The University of Ibadan, was in Ibadan, and not in Ilorin. The video is wrongly titled, sorry and I love your videos can't tell you how much I absolutely love it. But, it should be titled "The Centuries Old Manuscripts of Ilorin", and not "The Centuries Old Manuscripts of Yorubaland", particulary because this is a time where Ilorin was seeking to destroy Yorubaland by Jihad and there is nothing pretty about this history. The whole manifesto of 1800s Ilorin was for Yorubaland to not exist apart from an extension of the Sokoto caliphate so no, this writing system does not represent Yorubas at all, it represents a very painful pat of our history, and it only and completely only represents Ilorin. Thanks :)
Great topic. For those looking for more info i'd recommend picking up the book, The Meanings of Timbuktu. It has a few chapters on Ajami literature discussing it's development and contents.
Probably not...I watched a good documentary years saying that due to the poor paper type in that blazing sun and overzealous converts to Islam destroying pre Islamic manuscripts most indigenous is lost or in private collections.
Those are excellent questions. The Nupe Families collection was a private one that they briefly allowed to be viewed/introduced to the public. Really wish I knew beyond that but I don’t know if there are any more or any topics on history in their collection.
@@hometeamhistory806 No problem with so many manuscripts all over West Africa I'm sure out of those thousands there are deep historical texts I've found a few like those from.the Futa Jallon Kingdom. there are so many libraries and private collections. I hope more effort goes towards documenting amd translating them. Btw If you feel led I'd do more of these videos exploring the different libraries and collections, this was very informative I assumed before this it was just Nupe and the Hausa lands in Nigeria that wrote in the Arabic script.
Yoruba people have a long and deep history before Arabs and Europeans came to invade. Most of the history has been passed orally but there are now written books that recount all the events from the first Yoruba societies
Well done, sir. Your channel will only continue to grow. But if I may make a suggestion? Please change the font you use for onscreen texts - as it is, it's not very readable. Thank you! 🌟
Thanks for the video. Sorry to say that these can't be regarded as manuscripts of Yorubaland because Ilorin is highly influenced by the Hausa and Fulani, and thats why they are written in Arabic or Arabic-like language.
Does that mean that the award winning books written by nobel prize laureate Woke Soyinka can't be regarded as the achievement of Yorubaland because he wrote them in english, not Yoruba? Don't be foolish. It doesn't matter what language the manuscripts are written in, what matters is who wrote them.
@@homoeconomicus5711 Wole Soyinka is Yoruba, not Hausa/Fulani. Also, Wole Soyinka's writing are not considered writing of Yorubaland, only writing of Wole Soyinka. Yorubaland did not get the nobel prize for his writings, only Wole Soyinka did. Pick anyone from Ilaje Yoruba territory, or Atapkame Yoruba territiory, or Ajase Yoruba teritorry and ask them if they know anything about these manuscripts and they will tell you NO. That is because these writings were not writings of close to any significant portion of Yorubaland, only writings of a rogue state, Ilorin, during foreign occupation
Love your videos brother, if I may add something. Maps of locations, or claimed locations, would be very useful in these videos to illustrate modern regions. Keep up the great work!
Proud Yoruba From Yoruba Nation, Ilorin is Called Ilorin Mesujamba literally Ilorin the Traitor, The Treachery of Afonja led to Ilorin A Yoruba Town and Remains Yoruba Forever Falling into the hands of Our Fulani Terrorist enemies but that will be remedied soonest.
Is this really where you want to be talking this nonsense? Someone 's RUclips channel that's just trying to give history and raise positive awareness about our Continent. You felt you had to put your jara.
@@ninsuhnrey Where else will he talk it. It is important to set this issue straight. It would have been better if we never had that Ajami because a lot of war came with that stuff
The Yoruba culture is one of the most powerful and recognized African cultures out there. From the Orisa to the arts, to the Yoruba descendants all over South America and the Carribbean that still hold onto their Yoruba heritage today STUBBORNLY. Yoruba's are stubborn by nature and it's one of the main reason their culture survived where many others didn't during the trans atlantic slave trade.
@@davidatkinson5858 What the hell are you talking about? The poster is talking about the cultures existing in the new world such as in Bahia, Brazil and in Cuba, Trinidad and Puerto Rico, parts of Haiti, etc
I really like this Channel, because I've learnt alot from it. But pls can you do a video about talking drums; because the talking drum is part of our culture. Especially we in West Africa.
@@AfricanMaverick no,yoruba is not a tribe but a people and nation and yoruba has many tribes like oyo ile,egba,ijebu,ijesa,igbomina etc. Most of those people don't know this because history is not taught in Nigeria and most of it starts with colonial Nigeria and because the white men told them that in english they are a tribe even hometeam history know yoruba is a nation.
@@aliukehinde3906 Yoruba isn’t a nation it wasn’t a term chiefdoms really used for themselves. You should know this. They identified nationally based on their chiefdom/kingdom name. Oyo, Ibadan etc.
@@JayKahns idk what to even say to you🤦,yoruba had City-states such as egbaland,ijebuland,oyo ile,ile ife etc just like Greece had macedonia,spartan, Athen etc but together they are a nation and they always join forces against external invaders just like the yorubas united against the fulani jihadists invaders and ibadan is not that old, it was founded after the fall of the second oyo empire but it former subjects and military.
@@aliukehinde3906 The term Yoruba is not an original term. No Oyo, Ondo, Ibadan in those times have ever referred to themselves as a “Yoruba”. It is a corrupted term adopted by the “Yoruba” people after it was given to them by the Islamic population of Hausa/Fulani. It’s not hard; look at the sources of old even oral tradition the term isn’t there. You’re omo Oduduwa. Whatever your region is, is what you would have been called.
@@nwazuemunachi6339 they do not. That is why you make sure to always use "tribe" It's a decision. If they're the same thing then you shouldn't have any problems using "Ethnicity" but no you won't
Can someone explain to me the connection between the fon, ewe and yoruba people? I once met a guy from benin who could speak 6 languages. He explained that the westafrican langauges he knew were ewe, fon and yoruba and that those languages were basically related and therefore easy for him to learn and understand. Whats the history or connection behind this?
The Ewe (Ghana/Togo), the Fon (Benin/Togo/Nigeria), and Yoruba (Nigeria/Benin/Togo) are African ethnic groups (indigenous nations) that border each other - Ewe to the west, Fon in the center, and Yoruba to the east. When indigenous nations border each other for hundreds of years they have many relations and share common traits, and perhaps many years ago they were even part of the same group that eventually split into separate nations. When I visited Ghana in the 1990s, most of the people spoke nearly all of the languages of the indigenous nations that bordered them - Twi, Ga, Fanti, Ewe, etc. I have found West African people to be particularly intelligent and tend to learn languages as easy as shuffling playing cards, and many West African people I've met speak several languages. West Africa has historically been a major economic center with cultures based on commercial trade, so it has always been particularly beneficial in West Africa to learn the major languages of all of neighboring ethnic nations in order to develop effective trade relations.
@@omokaroojiire Who told you that? Is that what aaaalllllll the evidence that we have adds up to be? Is that what you REALLY believe, or is that what you really WANT to believe? The Almighty God, known to our Ancestors looooong before anything Hebrew, will not help you when you lie to yourself. You will not receive any blessings in heaven or earth for that. Make sure you add up aaaalllllll the evidence before you establish your "beliefs", or continue to suffer the results. Your choice.
@@broq9194 Thank you so much for explaining the historical connection! Im a west african born in europe and i know exactly what you mean! Africans born and raised in africa, who come from ethnically diverse nations, seem to have a talent for being able to learn languages quickly. When i visited Ghana i was suprised at how many Ewe people would speak Twi. Worst case scenario was always them AT LEAST understanding the language. Even my grandad spoke at least three west african languages before moving to europe. Meanwhile i struggled learning ONE and even that i am not fluent in and can only understand with my mothers dialect. My stepdad (before he became my stepdad) spoke Twi and Ewe and when he adopted a daughter from Kenya he learnt Swahili so quickly despite the languages having no connection. To this day he can still speak and understand eventhough he doesnt have anyone to communicate it with on a daily. Its crazy. However its sad how many people dont value this e.g. my grandmother speaks several native languages spoken in Togo, the only european language she speaks is French yet people still make her out to feel "stupid" just because she doesnt speak english! Imagine being able to speak four languages and still feeling "lesser" just because you dont speak the queens english? If a european spoke four european languages they would feel AMAZING and smart! Even if they didnt speak english. Even the people around them would be amazed by that
4:10 is a copy of the Quran. Surat Al Baquara on the left and Surat Al Fatiha on the right. written in calligraphy. It’s interesting as a Yoruba girl from ilorin to see just how knowledgeable we were. My mother always said we were scholarly and she’s right. Also interesting to see the unique art and style of my people in the quran
@@Moneyg73 Tribe and ethnic group are both western terms. What Yorubas actually are is properly captured by ethnic group or ethnic nation, or just nation, and improperly captured by tribe. And our ethnic cluster has subgroups in it (aka tribes)
So their history started in the 17 century when the Arab colonizers decided to start writing things down on behalf of the Africans. This was also during the time when the Arabs were losing their Grip on their African colonies, and in turn the Africans made war with each other, made alliances with each other, some joined forces and others did not. You should do a video on how from 633 AD to 1800 AD the Arabic Muslims of the Ummayad Caliphate colonized and ran roughshod over all of North Africa, from the Mediterranean to the edge of the jungle near the equator.
I’m always excited to hear about written records found for ancient civilizations. I hear of so many African cultures that kept an oral history so this was especially exciting since, I assume, much of the oral history must have been lost.
You should probably change the title of the video. I understand some manuscripts from 19th century Illorin have survived, and Islam was probably present in Yorubaland by the 17th century, but I think most if not all of the surviving manuscripts of Illorin are from the 1800s.
Well done, except that you completely left out one of Africa's greatest traditions- IFA/ORISHA! with their binary-code usage of 256 ODU - the ancient tradition that is now spread all over the world! ASHE-SHE-O!
There was no knowledge. Just the expansion of a caliphate. Most Yoruba text that actually led to global Yoruba knowledge is in the form of the Odu, or today in the form of the latin script. What you just watched was about the attempt at a caliphate's expansion. It is a very touching topic for us Yorubas. Many people died just because someone can't keep their arab love to themselves. They will not get credit
@@davidatkinson5858 Arab didn't invent slavery in sub-Saharan Africa.Slavery and dominance was there before arab came.Arab trade was due to converted Muslim Africans who are of the same ethnicity selling none Muslim of the same ethnicity.Which is called Muslim Brotherhood not ethnicity brotherhood.Arab slave trade toke place in East Africa not west Africa
@@97VIRTUESHEART are you saying that Africa raided Arabs first? You are aware that the middle eastern slave trade preceded the start of Islam by quite a few centuries?
have you covered Liberia yet? I feel that that is a story that needs a proper telling as there is a lot of inaccurate 'word of mouth' history being spread about the country
The amount of words that snuck in through Yorùbá by way of Islamic influence is ridiculous. Wáhàlá, aláàfìá, Adùra, gafara, Ọjọ́ jimọ. Evens words like amọ which is Hausa word but get used in Yorùbá dialect till this day reveals the history that is there. I don’t even think most Young Yorùbá care to know the history of these words.
🙄 Hometeam history already made two videos debunking the hebrew Israelite theories, but you guys just won't leave us alone. Forcing this Israelite superiority on black people is really getting sickening.
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Blessed to see focus spread on neglected regions of Africa. West Africa so often feels reduced down to Timbuktu and maybe Mali. The Yoruba peoples deserve this respect and the conflict between native and Islamic traditions in Ilorin is an incredible glance at the diversity and inter connectedness of the region
Yes, there is conflict regarding the legacy spoken about in this video. It is in fact our chief conflict. But somehow, we Yorubas haven't caved in to letting religion rend us. Looks like we have a very strong sense of community
Yoruba Nation was just re-birthed and we are NOT going back to one Nigeria!!! None of the nations lumped together under "One Nigeria" have anything in common, except being forced to speak English!!! These were separate nations, before the arrival of the colonial invaders who joined these nations together for the benefit of the colonial masters. The so called Niger-Area is exactly what it is, a "British Plantation," created for the Benefit of Britain without regard for the people of the region.
Yoruba Nation is revived and has fully reclaim its precolonial identity!!!
Long live the Great Yoruba Nation!!!
The issue in Nigeria is not about religious, Fulani that has no land want to to take our God giving land and all this happen because that is the work is British and royal family. with what happened to Yoruba race in times back from the white people. we want our identity back has Yoruba race we are not Nigeria but Yoruba kingdom and nation....
As a Yoruba man, I love when you have videos relating to my tribe and other tribes within Nigeria
Ethnic group
Stop calling your people tribe, Yoruba,Hausa,Kanuri,have empires centralize government and impressive civilization. There is nothing tribal about them.
Yoruba is a race of people.
Another great presentation on an African society that wasn’t Kemet.
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Most presentations on Africa are about kmt because it's one of the only ancient societies in Africa. Unlike Yoruba
@@greenpill7320 The Nok Culture? Plus, just because something is older, that doesn’t necessarily mean something is better.
@@MrMetro-mt5qv I didn't say something older was better I was actually just inferring
@@MrMetro-mt5qv kmt is kemet aka Egypt but in my opinion I'd say that culture was better than Yoruba culture. Because Yoruba culture didn't contribute anything to the global society what so ever. Unless you can show me different
While growing up in the 70s and 80s, we would hear older people say things like "He's coming from Tim-buck-too". And we knew it was a reference to far away or uncertain distance, etc. But I didn't realize that Timbuktu is an actual civilization until I was well in my 30s!! Thank you for introducing so much fascinating information about Africa!💯⚜️
yes, it has always been an expression for indicating what you said or for referring to getting lost somewhere, example: "Don't follow his instructions, you'll end up in Timbuktu!!"
Proud Yoruba descendant by the way of Cuba and Puerto Rico. The Yoruba religion IFA is my family religion. The Yoruba corpus of IFA are thousands of philosophical stories and proverbs that are thousands of years old. This is cool but the traditional corpus of IFA is incredible ancient African philosophy that is not Arabized 🙏🏾
ABSOLUTELY !!! ACHE PA TI, PAISANO !!!
Very true. From the perspective of the Western educational system, people easily ignore the extremely vast and ancient Ifa literary corpus because it was passed down orally and we are taught to depend on written sources
@@proverbalizer Yep, plus the Arab thing was only relegated to the municipality mentioned in the video which was seeking expansion and got brought to an abrupt end when Ibadan stopped it at Osogbo, whereas the literally corpus was actually global for us Yorubas
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Thousands of years? Are you sure about that?
YORUBA. Abi ooooooo!✊🏾🇳🇬
Hoyep from Ghana! You're just amazing!!!!!
I'm a big fan of your work, thanks so much for the exposure you're giving to Africa. I'd like to ask if you have any videos or information about the Igala people in Nigeria.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m sure at some point I’ll speak about them
@@hometeamhistory806 good luck, I can't wait to hear about it.
I loved this a lot! I'm Nigerian so I'm familiar with all the tribes. That was very nice. I also learned a lot of new stuff like the exact time when the Sokoto Caliphate brought in Islam. Fascinating. Even though the pronunciation of every single non-english word left me stressed out😅
He said it himself that the Sokoto caliphate did not bring in Islam. There was some Islam there prior. The Sokoto caliphate brought in war. It is this war and turmoil that led to Oyo's collapse, Dahomey's rise, and the entire history of civil war that plagued the interior Yorubas for the main part of the 1800s
Islam has been in Bornu before Usman Dan fodio was born
Yoruba’s were Muslims before Fulani Danfodio came.
@@antnam4406 I guess this is my fault for being unclear because that wasn't my main point, but I was referring to the rise of scholarship and writing as discussed in the video. The writing style he spoke about had heavy influence from Danfodio, hence me referring to the involvement of the Sokoto Caliphate. I didn't know he was that influencial on them. I think I have to disagree that Fulani trade didn't influence the spread of Islam in Yoruba land before that though.
So let me say "I also learned new stuff like the exact time and ways the Sokoto Caliphate's versions of Islam impacted Yorubaland."
@@atgs20 Agreed. But Bornu isn't in Yorubaland. Islam travelled to Yorubaland through trade and migration, and likely through Nomadic Fula people. At the time of Mansa Musa there was a lot of this kind of organic spreading from the little I understand. Not sure how Bornu would have played a role in that.
The Yoruba are a learned people with a rich history. The muslim Yoruba have a huge presence in Yorubaland
and Hebrews from the 12 tribes or Yashrel
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Nice video love Africa history
Thank you so much for all of your teaching. You bring so much joy and happiness to countless people, that listen and learn from you. You are appreciated and a wonderful teacher. We are awaiting your next masterpiece.
Please when you get the time and interest, please consider a video on The Yoruba Revolutionary Wars and the war known as The Jalumi war, what led to all of it, how it affected the Volta-Niger West African sub-region, and how this all further contributed to further dispersion of people into the diaspora
After finding some gorgeous Byzantine illuminated manuscripts with clearly Africans in the illustrations (also the artists in some cases) I’ve been hooked on the interrelationship between African “principalities” and the Byzantine empire. Also, really enjoying this video!
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Please could You name any of your sources for My studies on the subject,since i to see increíble relationshipd with greeks that could not happen only through egypt.
Thought you were gonna talk about Nsibidi , Vai sript or the kunbaw script from Songhay which are actual indigenous scripts
Those are the important ones, unfortunately this really just focuses on the surface and a very recent development at that. Afrika n scholarship goes so much deeper than the Abrahamic religions
Then you do it!
Thank you Jonathan Cole for acknowledging this.
Peace and Blissings
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@Gas Enjoyer... You're inhaling too much mustard gas fool! You come from the "wild man," now look that up you barbarian!
Great vid big homey
You should do a video about the alternatives between The Cushitic, Omotic, Nilotic, And Semitic Ethiopians And Eritreans yeah
The real liberation of Ethiopians, Eritrean and Somalians will come in the future ONLY when you guys embrace your true origin as HAMITIC and not the colonial Semitic you wanna associate with. Free yourselves from mental slavery, see every other African country has and is developing better and faster!
It fills me with so much sadness that alot of nigerians today have little to know idea on their history and the nigerian government is making no move to keep the knowledge of this alive
It is a very important point that this video is not about the writing and scholarship in Oyo, but about the writing and scholarship in Ilorin, which is only a part of Yorubaland and the part most responsible for its destruction in the 1800s. Oyo has never and will never want to use Arabic letters and scholarship is most dense in the parts of Yorubaland that didn't have this history. Oyo uses the latin script, and there is an older marking system which the king's messengers used to leave messages in town centers. Ilorin posed itself as an antagonistic caliphate and killed people to drive the religious point. In the 1800s, Ilorin was Oyo's primary enemy and it is precisely because of the type of system imported from the Sokoto caliphate. The Oyo capital was, in following, destroyed by the Ilorins (some Muslim Yorubas, some Hausas, led by some Fula) when the King of Oyo and his close King of Bariba ally, faced the Ilorins at Ilorin and both died on the front. The Ilorins then proceeded to completelty destroy the Oyo capital which led to Dahomey wiling out on the coast and formation of a new Yorubaland military city called Ibadan which rose to stop the further incursions of the jihad and regain control of the region. The Ibadans won gladly, and that is why Yorubas put a lot of emphasis on scholarship today. The best univerity in Nigeria, The University of Ibadan, was in Ibadan, and not in Ilorin. The video is wrongly titled, sorry and I love your videos can't tell you how much I absolutely love it. But, it should be titled "The Centuries Old Manuscripts of Ilorin", and not "The Centuries Old Manuscripts of Yorubaland", particulary because this is a time where Ilorin was seeking to destroy Yorubaland by Jihad and there is nothing pretty about this history. The whole manifesto of 1800s Ilorin was for Yorubaland to not exist apart from an extension of the Sokoto caliphate so no, this writing system does not represent Yorubas at all, it represents a very painful pat of our history, and it only and completely only represents Ilorin. Thanks :)
Thanks for this
thanks for this, i wouldnt have known this at all! Do you have recs on where I can read up more on this time period in naija?
Great topic. For those looking for more info i'd recommend picking up the book, The Meanings of Timbuktu. It has a few chapters on Ajami literature discussing it's development and contents.
Thanks for the needed history...🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
This is amazing.
Please research the history of Yoruba people as we have a skull of Youba man dated 13,000 years aged 30 years old in Isarun in Ondo state.
Thank you for this information Maferefun Olodumare Olofi Olorun and Eggun 🙏🏽🌍
Awesome do we know how many manuscripts this region produced? And btw were any texts on the history aside from the record you mentioned?
Probably not...I watched a good documentary years saying that due to the poor paper type in that blazing sun and overzealous converts to Islam destroying pre Islamic manuscripts most indigenous is lost or in private collections.
Those are excellent questions. The Nupe Families collection was a private one that they briefly allowed to be viewed/introduced to the public. Really wish I knew beyond that but I don’t know if there are any more or any topics on history in their collection.
@@hometeamhistory806 No problem with so many manuscripts all over West Africa I'm sure out of those thousands there are deep historical texts I've found a few like those from.the Futa Jallon Kingdom. there are so many libraries and private collections. I hope more effort goes towards documenting amd translating them.
Btw If you feel led I'd do more of these videos exploring the different libraries and collections, this was very informative I assumed before this it was just Nupe and the Hausa lands in Nigeria that wrote in the Arabic script.
@@jamaaldaynitelong8367 Oh what a shame, but oh well we still have the oral accounts so its not all forgotten.
@@admirekashiri9879 True but unfortunately one war, one griot killed and the chain is lost or broken.
Yoruba people have a long and deep history before Arabs and Europeans came to invade. Most of the history has been passed orally but there are now written books that recount all the events from the first Yoruba societies
You can also tra be historical facts through sculptures, bronzes, shrines, festivals , religious ceremonies
The used Abrahamic religions to distort our history😢
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I love this channel
As a Yōrùbá man, I really appreciate this!
Well done, sir. Your channel will only continue to grow. But if I may make a suggestion? Please change the font you use for onscreen texts - as it is, it's not very readable. Thank you! 🌟
Great work young man!
Happy Sunday
indeed Afonja made a big mistake. But he serves as a lesson for us Yoruba today
They used the fulani to created Northern Nigeria...,afonja only fall into the colonizers trap
Another great one. Thank you for the knowledge
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Amazing! Love it!
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Great video, African history educators need to spend more times demonstrating sub Saharan African literature
Thanks for the video. Sorry to say that these can't be regarded as manuscripts of Yorubaland because Ilorin is highly influenced by the Hausa and Fulani, and thats why they are written in Arabic or Arabic-like language.
Exactly
Does that mean that the award winning books written by nobel prize laureate Woke Soyinka can't be regarded as the achievement of Yorubaland because he wrote them in english, not Yoruba? Don't be foolish. It doesn't matter what language the manuscripts are written in, what matters is who wrote them.
@@homoeconomicus5711 Wole Soyinka is Yoruba, not Hausa/Fulani. Also, Wole Soyinka's writing are not considered writing of Yorubaland, only writing of Wole Soyinka. Yorubaland did not get the nobel prize for his writings, only Wole Soyinka did. Pick anyone from Ilaje Yoruba territory, or Atapkame Yoruba territiory, or Ajase Yoruba teritorry and ask them if they know anything about these manuscripts and they will tell you NO. That is because these writings were not writings of close to any significant portion of Yorubaland, only writings of a rogue state, Ilorin, during foreign occupation
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Love your videos brother, if I may add something. Maps of locations, or claimed locations, would be very useful in these videos to illustrate modern regions. Keep up the great work!
Proud Yoruba From Yoruba Nation, Ilorin is Called Ilorin Mesujamba literally Ilorin the Traitor, The Treachery of Afonja led to Ilorin A Yoruba Town and Remains Yoruba Forever Falling into the hands of Our Fulani Terrorist enemies but that will be remedied soonest.
Is this really where you want to be talking this nonsense? Someone 's RUclips channel that's just trying to give history and raise positive awareness about our Continent. You felt you had to put your jara.
@@ninsuhnrey No, it's giving understanding and context, this is a real issue in Illorin to this day. There are Emirs that report to Saudi Arabia.
@@ninsuhnrey Where else will he talk it. It is important to set this issue straight. It would have been better if we never had that Ajami because a lot of war came with that stuff
Olodumare bless you
I’m Yoruba and find your page interesting. Subscriber
Another great video.
I always wondered why Yorubas from Illorin looked very different from Yorubas in other states. This makes sense.
They don't my brother..
The Yoruba spoken there is the Oyo dialect....
@@MMaddiesGaming I said they LOOK not sound different.
Thank you
This was excellent!!!
The Yoruba culture is one of the most powerful and recognized African cultures out there. From the Orisa to the arts, to the Yoruba descendants all over South America and the Carribbean that still hold onto their Yoruba heritage today STUBBORNLY.
Yoruba's are stubborn by nature and it's one of the main reason their culture survived where many others didn't during the trans atlantic slave trade.
Survived? They flourished, made a fortune off selling their neighbours
@@davidatkinson5858 What the hell are you talking about? The poster is talking about the cultures existing in the new world such as in Bahia, Brazil and in Cuba, Trinidad and Puerto Rico, parts of Haiti, etc
@@seismicvertigo345 your reading comprehension needs work👍
@@davidatkinson5858 Yes survived. You can read thank God. Now what?
@@davidatkinson5858 well thats what it took for them to survive. They put their own culture and people first i guess.
I really like this Channel, because I've learnt alot from it. But pls can you do a video about talking drums; because the talking drum is part of our culture. Especially we in West Africa.
Lot of “feel good about yourself fiction” being pedalled here as history. Find an authentic history channel with no agendas
Yoruba is not a tribe but a nation just like Greece and we are a one of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria.
Many Yoruba say they're a tribe
@@AfricanMaverick no,yoruba is not a tribe but a people and nation and yoruba has many tribes like oyo ile,egba,ijebu,ijesa,igbomina etc. Most of those people don't know this because history is not taught in Nigeria and most of it starts with colonial Nigeria and because the white men told them that in english they are a tribe even hometeam history know yoruba is a nation.
@@aliukehinde3906 Yoruba isn’t a nation it wasn’t a term chiefdoms really used for themselves. You should know this. They identified nationally based on their chiefdom/kingdom name. Oyo, Ibadan etc.
@@JayKahns idk what to even say to you🤦,yoruba had City-states such as egbaland,ijebuland,oyo ile,ile ife etc just like Greece had macedonia,spartan, Athen etc but together they are a nation and they always join forces against external invaders just like the yorubas united against the fulani jihadists invaders and ibadan is not that old, it was founded after the fall of the second oyo empire but it former subjects and military.
@@aliukehinde3906 The term Yoruba is not an original term. No Oyo, Ondo, Ibadan in those times have ever referred to themselves as a “Yoruba”. It is a corrupted term adopted by the “Yoruba” people after it was given to them by the Islamic population of Hausa/Fulani. It’s not hard; look at the sources of old even oral tradition the term isn’t there. You’re omo Oduduwa. Whatever your region is, is what you would have been called.
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Wow...What a revelation about the Yourba tribe..😯😲😲
It's a writing system of Ilorin, not of Yoruba
@@seismicvertigo345 it both refers to the same people. Tribe or no tribe Ilorin in a place in the Yoruba land; the western part of Nigeria.
*Yoruba ethnicity. We are not a tribe
@@mch7933 Ethincity and tribe but mean the same thing brotherly....😉😉
@@nwazuemunachi6339 they do not. That is why you make sure to always use "tribe"
It's a decision. If they're the same thing then you shouldn't have any problems using "Ethnicity" but no you won't
Hey history can u do a history on us creoles? Alot people think lousiana but we r in mississippi n alambama
These documents need to be preserved, distributed, and studied so they aren't erased or distorted by colonizers.
Gwarn my black brother with your knowledge. And yes, you are! I can hear it 😂💪🏽❤️
On the Makua people in Mozambique, i just got my african ancestry results back from placed there
Can someone explain to me the connection between the fon, ewe and yoruba people? I once met a guy from benin who could speak 6 languages. He explained that the westafrican langauges he knew were ewe, fon and yoruba and that those languages were basically related and therefore easy for him to learn and understand. Whats the history or connection behind this?
The Ewe (Ghana/Togo), the Fon (Benin/Togo/Nigeria), and Yoruba (Nigeria/Benin/Togo) are African ethnic groups (indigenous nations) that border each other - Ewe to the west, Fon in the center, and Yoruba to the east. When indigenous nations border each other for hundreds of years they have many relations and share common traits, and perhaps many years ago they were even part of the same group that eventually split into separate nations. When I visited Ghana in the 1990s, most of the people spoke nearly all of the languages of the indigenous nations that bordered them - Twi, Ga, Fanti, Ewe, etc. I have found West African people to be particularly intelligent and tend to learn languages as easy as shuffling playing cards, and many West African people I've met speak several languages. West Africa has historically been a major economic center with cultures based on commercial trade, so it has always been particularly beneficial in West Africa to learn the major languages of all of neighboring ethnic nations in order to develop effective trade relations.
We are the lost tribes of Yakub!!! We are the original brothers, the sons of Jacob!!!
@@omokaroojiire Who told you that? Is that what aaaalllllll the evidence that we have adds up to be? Is that what you REALLY believe, or is that what you really WANT to believe? The Almighty God, known to our Ancestors looooong before anything Hebrew, will not help you when you lie to yourself. You will not receive any blessings in heaven or earth for that. Make sure you add up aaaalllllll the evidence before you establish your "beliefs", or continue to suffer the results. Your choice.
@@broq9194 Thank you so much for explaining the historical connection! Im a west african born in europe and i know exactly what you mean!
Africans born and raised in africa, who come from ethnically diverse nations, seem to have a talent for being able to learn languages quickly. When i visited Ghana i was suprised at how many Ewe people would speak Twi. Worst case scenario was always them AT LEAST understanding the language. Even my grandad spoke at least three west african languages before moving to europe. Meanwhile i struggled learning ONE and even that i am not fluent in and can only understand with my mothers dialect.
My stepdad (before he became my stepdad) spoke Twi and Ewe and when he adopted a daughter from Kenya he learnt Swahili so quickly despite the languages having no connection. To this day he can still speak and understand eventhough he doesnt have anyone to communicate it with on a daily. Its crazy.
However its sad how many people dont value this e.g. my grandmother speaks several native languages spoken in Togo, the only european language she speaks is French yet people still make her out to feel "stupid" just because she doesnt speak english! Imagine being able to speak four languages and still feeling "lesser" just because you dont speak the queens english? If a european spoke four european languages they would feel AMAZING and smart! Even if they didnt speak english. Even the people around them would be amazed by that
Almost all them share the same origin which is Ile-ife
IFA blesses all of us 🪴
I'm Nigerian from Kwara state,Ilorin is the capital of Kwara. Kwara state especially Ilorin is known/popular for its scholars.
4:10 is a copy of the Quran. Surat Al Baquara on the left and Surat Al Fatiha on the right. written in calligraphy. It’s interesting as a Yoruba girl from ilorin to see just how knowledgeable we were. My mother always said we were scholarly and she’s right. Also interesting to see the unique art and style of my people in the quran
Which of your people are in the Quran?
Hope you're not talking about the Yoruba people.
We're not in the quran
Mumu, they used fulani religion to infiltrate you and you're happy cos of scam religion....
My dad is from afemai tribe in Yoruba land.
Ethnic group
@@seismicvertigo345 it's a tribe. Ethnic group is a western term.
@@Moneyg73 Tribe and ethnic group are both western terms. What Yorubas actually are is properly captured by ethnic group or ethnic nation, or just nation, and improperly captured by tribe. And our ethnic cluster has subgroups in it (aka tribes)
Also, Afemai is Greater Benin
@@seismicvertigo345 I think the afemai tribe is smaller than a traditional ethnic group.
Ilorin was found by Laderin not Ojo.
Yoruba Nation Now
So their history started in the 17 century when the Arab colonizers decided to start writing things down on behalf of the Africans. This was also during the time when the Arabs were losing their Grip on their African colonies, and in turn the Africans made war with each other, made alliances with each other, some joined forces and others did not. You should do a video on how from 633 AD to 1800 AD the Arabic Muslims of the Ummayad Caliphate colonized and ran roughshod over all of North Africa, from the Mediterranean to the edge of the jungle near the equator.
What makes "Ajami" distinctive or unique from traditional Arabic?
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Ilorin is still Yoruba land not Fulani/hausa ..
I’m always excited to hear about written records found for ancient civilizations. I hear of so many African cultures that kept an oral history so this was especially exciting since, I assume, much of the oral history must have been lost.
Afonja was a f**l 😅. After Oyo Empire collapsed, Ibadan wanted to take it place and this caused the Yoruba Civil war
You can't blame afonja, the fulani and kiriji was strategic planned by Brit empire in other to reduce Oyo military power and created Nigeria.
Yoruba gan gan 🙏🙏🙏🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
You should probably change the title of the video. I understand some manuscripts from 19th century Illorin have survived, and Islam was probably present in Yorubaland by the 17th century, but I think most if not all of the surviving manuscripts of Illorin are from the 1800s.
So that's two centuries and above, making the title accurate enough then.
Well done, except that you completely left out one of Africa's greatest traditions- IFA/ORISHA! with their binary-code usage of 256 ODU - the ancient tradition that is now spread all over the world! ASHE-SHE-O!
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Great as always. All that African knowledge that came to us through the Arabs.
There was no knowledge. Just the expansion of a caliphate. Most Yoruba text that actually led to global Yoruba knowledge is in the form of the Odu, or today in the form of the latin script. What you just watched was about the attempt at a caliphate's expansion. It is a very touching topic for us Yorubas. Many people died just because someone can't keep their arab love to themselves. They will not get credit
Which Arab😂😭, do they speak or have Arabic culture 😭
The Arabs who invented the millennium old sub Saharan African slave trade?
@@davidatkinson5858 Arab didn't invent slavery in sub-Saharan Africa.Slavery and dominance was there before arab came.Arab trade was due to converted Muslim Africans who are of the same ethnicity selling none Muslim of the same ethnicity.Which is called Muslim Brotherhood not ethnicity brotherhood.Arab slave trade toke place in East Africa not west Africa
@@97VIRTUESHEART are you saying that Africa raided Arabs first? You are aware that the middle eastern slave trade preceded the start of Islam by quite a few centuries?
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Who gave them the name yarubaland the bad teeth and bad weather land
You be full. I know say na Lagos or Ibadan you go dey now o 😂
have you covered Liberia yet? I feel that that is a story that needs a proper telling as there is a lot of inaccurate 'word of mouth' history being spread about the country
I don’t want to assume, but I don’t want to sound naive either, was this scholarly learning equally accessible to Ilorin women?
This is like hearing that someone got run over by a bicycle...then asking what the gear ratios of that bike are.
@@crispusmahea2135 so they didn’t. Thanks for answering the question
@@afrinaut3094 No. The answer is "We don't know"
The amount of words that snuck in through Yorùbá by way of Islamic influence is ridiculous. Wáhàlá, aláàfìá, Adùra, gafara, Ọjọ́ jimọ. Evens words like amọ which is Hausa word but get used in Yorùbá dialect till this day reveals the history that is there. I don’t even think most Young Yorùbá care to know the history of these words.
Yoruba. Many REAL biblical Israelites are them 💡💡💡
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Can you give me some archeological/linguistic references to cosign that?
brother, stop living in fantasy... you are making a fool of yourself
🙄 Hometeam history already made two videos debunking the hebrew Israelite theories, but you guys just won't leave us alone. Forcing this Israelite superiority on black people is really getting sickening.
@@yeoworld 🤣 You went right for the kill huh?? Let's be kind and patient with him a lot of us don't know.
They are Hebrew.
Nope.
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