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I’m from Brazil and Cuba. 80% of my Dna is from the Yoruba people. My great great grandfather was a babalawo, his father was enslaved from Oyo by Dahomey. He was also a writer so he wrote about his life. He’s slave record shows his name was Adewale Adeniran but was changed to Manuel Dasilva. My mom is from cuba and tested her dna, most of her dna was for Yoruba people and Mbundu people from Angola/ Kongo.
I am a Yoruba from Ilorin. I regard this coverage of Yoruba history as close to accurate. The illustrations really brings so much context. However, I would like to point out one thing. If you say 'pele' to me, I would assume you meant to say sorry. The other ways to say hello in Yoruba is "enle o"; pronounced as "hen leh ooo". Alternatively, you can say 'enle nibe un' or "e pele nibe un" which loosely translate to hello there. How are you is "bawo ni"
Are you campaigning for Yoruba to be medium of instruction in schools and universities and for Yoruba TV etc, official status? If not, these things are trivial. Your language will be effectively dead by the end of the century.
@@SionTJobbins Dumbest take I’ve heard in a while. What are your basis for this bold statement? For a language to be extinct the people plus the knowledge about the language would have to be extinct. Now you’re watching a foreigner breakdown the language and this is the best take you could come up with. Olodo.
Sometimes we the Yorubas don't know how valuable is our culture and tribe. thanks to this video for shedding more light through this and telling the world what our culture and tradition is all about.
As an Afro-Latina in America I am so tired of my stories told by Caucasians. So damn tired. I want to go home. Learning Yoruba so I can never look back America is not it.
The reason is that they forsake the ancestors and call them evil,and pray to foreign ancestors that is why Yoruba land is not great, because we forget awon Onile.
It's crazy how successful yoruba culture has been despite all of the suffering its people have endured throughout history. I'm from Bahia, Brazil and I have to say, we LIVE the yoruba culture. It's tangible how much it has influenced our culture over there and it's beautiful to see it. The religion of candomblé is present in everyone's lives in Bahia and even catholics will engage in Yoruba's tradition every so often.
Yoruba are indeed the jewels of african Tribes, their history and culture is unique. Shout out to Our Yoruba brothers and sisters from Eritrea in East Africa :)
When the sculptures from Ife were discovered many Europeans refused to believe Africans had made them and came up with a bizarre Greek origin for them 😂
@@tyronechillifoot5573 It is actually a political union. Yorubas still have their own geographical region it's just locked into 3 countries. No need to lock the non Nigerian Yoruba out of their own history and glue others who have nothing to do with that history into it. You know, like the kurds
As a Yoruba historian, i can say it is obvious a lot of research was put into this and not mere google/wikipedia or relying on popular but uninformed narratives about the Yoruba people. I have been following this chanel for a over a year now and i'm glad a video on the yoruba was made
But Yoruba people did not know cassava/yam before the Europeans introduced it during colonialism. This is a false information, still I agree the video is good
Who told you that we don't know yam and cassava? Do you know that there is a festival that every yoruba tribe celebrate every year that it's a yam festival? There are a lot of things that we use yam for spiritually that's in history of our fore fathers before the 16bcs so we know the two before the colonial arrival
@@lasseb5612 Yorubas are even part of the wider proto-culture that discovered yams. So you are so off on that Yam and Cassava are totally separate things
@@Amidat Yeah. it was so interesting to read that there is a place in Jamaica called Abeokuta. Like, how obvious is it? That is a direct carry over of the name of a Yoruba city
I would visit other countries in Africa except Nigeria and I would visit every Carribean islands except Jamaica both Jamaica and Nigeria are very hostile people you cannot be nice to them without them having a nasty attitude toward you
My homeboy married a yuroba woman. I had to lie on the ground to to help him convince his soon-to-be father-in-law that he had enough money to take care of his daughter. It was kind of cool that I got a chance to give their firstborn son a name
😂😂😂😂 The leing on the floor (prostrating) is not to show that you have money to take care of her (that’s what bride price is for and even that is later returned to the couple as the daughter is not for sale) … the prostrating is to show that you pleaded or you’re begging for her hand in marriage and also seeking for the father’s blessings….
In fact, most genres of "pop" music over the past HUNDRED years or so were invented or influenced by people of Yoruban descent, especially in the Americas. From ragtime, to rock, to jazz and blues and hip hop. Without the Yoruba, there would be no Beatles, or K-pop, or modern Latin music, or Scandinavian metal. Global cultures have changed because of the Yoruba's cultural influence, which have shaped the world as significantly as the zero from India and tea culture from China.
Afrobeats is a combination of Fuji music a yoruba genre music and blues. It was even created and made public by a yoruba man. his name was fela anikulapo kuti. a legend 🇳🇬
I'm a son of the Candomble, with my best friend being a woman from Umbanda. I can honestly say Brazil's most beautiful things, which make up our identity today, were given to us by the Yoruba people. We will never forget their struggle and their pain, and will forever honor their sacrifice. Asè ♥
Sorry to be that person but get rid of the h at the back of e. Coz we have the sh sound which Is this ṣ the dot at the bottom makes the sh sound. And also there should be no sign or a dash on E because it’s a rē sound So it should be Ē̩kúṣẹ o. This might come across as rude but I just wanted to correct that 😅
As an outsider, it's interesting how the Yoruba people, along with other ethnic groups of Sub-Saharan Africa, influenced the cultures of countries in the Americas. I do think they deserve recognition for shaping the world into what it is today, at least culturally and linguistically, and I think this video has done them justice because it's been overlooked by many all around the world. Anyways, hope y'all have a happy holiday! :)
I'm African American and recently did a dna test and found out I'm 43% Nigerian majoriy of which is Yoruba descent, so all of this very interesting to learn of some of my ancestors
@@kingofpendragon Nope just showing appreciation for someone making a video on the history of some my ancestors. Why you get mad at that or feel the need to insult is what's really strange. There's plenty of other people that are not Americans in the comments discussing their connection to the Yoruba people, you might as well go insult and call them stupid too then?
Hi @topdigga. Feels good you're linked to this superb ethnic group. We're more than interesting. If you'd like to know a thing or two more about us, I'm willing to be your friend and help you through it. Peace.
I was told Yoruba priests who were captured and sold as slaves build the foundation of Voodoo religion as we know it. And it is a different religion compare to George Romeo Voodoo the outside world know about from Living Dead films in the 70's.
@@thanakonpraepanich4284 This is true in a lot of ways. When persons were taken from West Africa to the Caribbean they were forbidden from practicing their own religions. And the enslaved persons were not from one religious area or even one tribe. So Haitian Voodoo and its cousin Louisiana Voodoo are descended practices from many of the west African practices. It even ended up becoming syncretized with Catholicism as the enslaved persons found ways to hide their practices by pretending it was Catholic. But its pretty globally understood the t.v. and media versions of Voodoo seen in Romero movies or movies like the Skeleton Key are super incorrect and meant to scare instead of inform. Voodoo/Vodou is actually a beautiful religion born out of struggle, a need for survival, and persistence of the sprit of the enslaved persons.
I’m a Yoruba Princess from three ruling houses in Oyo, Ogbomosho and Ibadan. I’m very impressed with the efforts put into this video. Well done for this.
As a Caribbean man of Yoruba lineage and a practitioner of Ifa/Lukumi this is a very accurate video made by an Oyinbo (Yoruba for a white man). This Oyinbo really did his research im impressed. The animations of Oduduwa, Obatala, Ogun and Olodomare made me smile lol. Also unfortunately many Yorubas (Islamized Ilorins) did backstab each other and sold their brothers to the Spaniards and Portuguese hence why Ifa(Santeria/Candomble)is so huge in Cuba and Brasil Also I'm happy to see the Cubanos and Brasileiros claiming their ancestral heritage in the comments. Ashe O.
You’re the embodiment of our ancestors as they live and breathe through you! They are alive because you made a conscious effort to ensure the survival of their culture. Oduduwa ati awon alale ile Yoruba a gbe wa o!
Thank you for including the fact that Sopona/Sopono is both the Orisha of disease and healing. I wrote a paper on western conceptions of disease dieties, and they always portrayed Sopona followers as disturbing and terrorinducing disease spreaders, when they were probably native innoculators. It's such an important nuancing, and it is incredibly impactful that you don't just retread colonial stereotypes about terroristic priests spreading disease on purpose.
Sopona (Babalu-aye) duality of positive and negative serves a purpose. You might need to invoke sopona to rain down diseases (often small pox) to weaken an invading army. You see a lot of duality in other orishas too
Thanks for the video! Here in Brazil you can see the Yorubá influences in our food, music, religions, words. One of their inheritance keep growing here where I live, the palm tree called dendê. It's used to make the oil used in the acarajé and others foods. We also hear a lot of yoruba words in capoeira and some cultural groups.
1:03 Geography 1:55 Language 4:05 History & Mythology 5:36 Building of city states 8:17 Ife expands under Oduduwa 9:58 *OYO EMPIRE* 14:37 Colonialism 15:32 Diaspora 17:54 Food 18:38 Religion 20:45 Fashion
I really like that you included a model of how palaces, houses and cities looked like. When it comes to other cultures I can imagen how they lived and thus I feel I have a better understanding, but I can picture close to nothing when I think of West African cities. Now I have an image in my head.
He paid a LOT if attention to detail. The houses were built in exactly that way with inner courtyards which the Yorubas trademarked and when he talked about the cities with the Palace of the king built in the center, the largest market nearby and the rest of the city built around it, he his giving an accurate depiction. All that not to even mention the Yoruba emblems used every now and then like when the Alaafin cogito was on a throne and there is an emblem right behind it at the window and the division of power of Oyo was spot on
@@Baajiki-e9x . I lived in Brazil for a while and Orishas and Yemanjá were common in Rio de Janeiro, although I didn’t know they came from Yoruba ancestry. But what I meant is if the Yoruba people in Nigeria still celebrate the old gods the same way as their ancestors did before Christianity and Islam arrived.
@@desiderata8811 We who worship in the Old Ways are sadly in the minor minority. The Abrahamic religions are well entrenched in people’s minds. Traditional worship is sneered at and derogated. The effects of Colonialism and Religious Colonialism are pervasive. I come from a very Traditional family so, for me I venerate the Old Ways ✊🏾
That's a great documentary. As a West African , I learned a lot watching it. living in the Western hemisphere , and coming in contact with lots of Blacks from the diaspora, I always tell them that African history is very rich. There is so much to learn, so there is no need to call ourselves Israelites and Hebrews , and take from other cultures.
Brother I agree, it’s sad, I try to be nice to people like that. They keep calling me a foreigner even tho it’s my land😂and use pictures as evidence or what white people who were racist said. It’s so sad because I am learning about my culture because governments commited genocide on its natives 1930 ( the most recent large scale one. So many of us weren’t taught our culture in fear of being killed . So now I’m learning the culture and even found out more about my father lineage that decent from upper North America
Also where are you from my gf is learning about her african roots and she is Nigeria and liberian I been looking for groups that she could join to learn more about her culture
As a Yoruba person from Africa and a direct descendant of île Ife, I had a feild day with Cogito butchering every single Yoruba word he said 😂. Great video, pretty accurate ❤
Hey, Cogito. I'm a fan and a Yoruba Nigerian. This is the second video in seeing in 2 days about Yoruba (the other one being from LangFocus). You're doing great work and this is largely in-depth and accurate. The mispronunciations made it a bit funny to watch though. Great job.
It's interesting how they produced iron before bronze. It makes you really think about how geography, chance, etc. can REALLY change how history unfolds.
Quite apart from their heavy historical influence on the cultures of the Americas , especially in countries like Brazil , Cuba , Trinidad and Tobago and others , the modern -day Yoruba are the dominant African culture outside of Africa especially in the U.K. and USA where there have been a lot of immigration by Yoruba-Nigerian people . This heavy contemporary Yoruba influence can be found in three main areas : 1. Christianity : the largest and most vibrant churches in the U.K. are Nigerian / Yoruba churches . 2. Music : Afrobeats music with songs sung mostly in Yoruba or Pidgin is all the rage across the world with Afrobeats stars like Burna Boy, Wizkid , Davido , Asake and others regularly staging sell-out concerts . Many non-African fans of Afrobeats in the U.K. sing songs in Yoruba and many do in fact know sone of the language . 3. The fields of Medicine and Healthcare industries : there are thousands of Nigerian medical doctors ( and also nurses ) in the U.K. and USA and most are Yoruba . 4. Heavily Yoruba districts of London such Peckham , Woolwich where it is common to hear Yoruba spoken and it is often joked that most people - even non-Africans understand a little bit of Yoruba . 5. The sheer numbers of Yoruba Nigerians in the U.K. and USA means that they are the most likely African ethnic group to intermarry with other ethnicities and cultures . This results in many mixed race and part -Yoruba people . 6. Sports : The Yoruba are very prominent in sports in both the U.K. and USA . Yoruba sports stars include the top Nigerian / Greek/ American basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo, the former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Anthony Joshua , the Arsenal and England footballer Bukayo Saka just to mention a few .
I have worked alongside many Igbo and Yoruba people. No matter what is going on, they just push forward. Some of the most honest, hardworking people. Much love and peace wished upon all of Western Africa
Wich's sad! because that's what our kings are representing! It's sad to see that we need foreigner to tell our history for us before believing In it! If this was told by one of us it would have being translate to (olorisa) wich means diety warships. Omo Yoruba eje kagbe asa wa laruge ire o.
The culture of the Yoruba people is among one of the most interesting and fascinating cultures in Africa, period. An excellent worldbuilding inspiration for anyone wanting to create a unique African-inspired culture. Thanks a lot for this video!
The level of detail is amazing.. I like how this guy points out the religious tolerance of the Yorubas and we never miss a chance to throw a party. And then that humongous guest list. Every wedding is like a carnival.
Solid Yoruba history video. I leaned some things. But if I may… impart some facts, too. 1. Olodumare is god. The Orishas are god-like but not gods. Orishas are “Orishas”. Limitations of translating the Yoruba language into a European language, like English. 2. Olodumare technically has no sex/gender. 3. While there are a 401+ Orishas. Not all Orishas are categorized the same, only a few Orishas are indispensable to the religion & structure of the universe. Obatala, Yemoja, Orunmila, Oshun, Oya, Ibeji, etc. 4. While Obatala is usually represented as male, Obatala is traditionally sex/gender fluid. 5. While Obatala & Oduduwa are considered Yoruba Forefathers, Yemoja is traditionally considered the Yoruba Foremother. In traditional Yoruba-land creation-myths, according to Baale Olukunmi Egbelade Yemoja "gives Obatala water".. "Yemoja is the Orisa (deity) that brought water for Obatala-the creator, god, during the time man was molded with clay by Obatala". Can’t have clay without “water”. Thus her title as “the mother of (all) humanity”. As in one of the traditional creation myths, being one of the 16 Orishas sent from Orun to create/prepare creation. 6. Yemoja is also "the metaphysical mother of ALL the Orishas". 7. It’s confusing but technically few humans (if they were even normal to begin with) have been “defied” as Orishas, apart from the fact that not all Orishas are in the same class, type or importance. “Primordial Orishas” or inhuman-Orishas in traditional myths/legends have descended upon Earth in human forms before, only to return to Orun later. 8. In-spite of the Yoruba being patriarchal societies, Yoruba women traditionally have been powerful market women, independent land owners, Iyalawos (priestesses on par with priests), queens & queen-mothers. And even female-kings, “Oba Obinrin”, etc. Your video graphics eluded to this, but I wish your video/audio discussed it further. 9. At 16:17 you show Yemoja in a on-screen illustration, yet the audio doesn’t speak about her. Was that an error? Anyways, Yemoja’s dominion is over all rivers, & everything that has to do with pregnancy/motherhood. Such as, but not limited to the Ogun river, the largest river in Yoruba-land. The reason Yemoja (Creole: “Yemaya”) is considered the co-ruler of the oceans/seas within Latin American Yoruba derived religions, is because it’s traditionally said that she followed enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. As well as her general association with water & being Olokun’s “metaphysical mother” as well. 10. I appreciate that you mentioned “Omoluwabi”. 11. Oshun is not the Orisha of fertility, she is far far more important than that. Neither is Shango the only god of lightning. I don’t understand how female Orishas continue to be disrespected, so much in mainstream history discussions & popular sources. What sources are you using? Lol. 12. Oshun like her mother Yemoja is associated with rivers & motherhood. Oshun like Eshu is also considered a divine messenger to Olodumare (a savior of humanity in one myth), the mother of Ibeji (Orishas of multiple-births), women-s3xual autonomy, & the enabler of Iyalawos. Etc. Wow! 13. Oya is another key-Orisha! Oya is the female-warrior Orisha that guards the “gates” of the after-life, graves & cemeteries. She guides the spirits of the departed including one's ancestors (“Egungun-Oya” mother of the Egun). Oya is often attributed to the last breath of human beings before said person departs from this Earth to the other-world. Oya is often called “mother of the ancestors”. Oya in many traditional myths is said to have been the one who awarded/taught Shango his power over lightning (or stole it from him). Oya’s name translates to “she tore”. 14. The Gẹlẹdẹ is a celebration were Yoruba men honor Yoruba Mothers, it has a strong association with Yemoja. PEACE. Edit: “…the pyramids”. What does that mean? Egypt wasn’t the only African civilization with ancient pyramids. Do you mean, the Nubian pyramids or Egyptian pyramids?
I’m of African descent and have been learning Mandarin since I was in high school. I see so many similarities between our cultures but it is sad that this information is not generally known.
Thank you Cogito for covering such an important topic. So much African history has been lost to western reception and treatment. I would love for you to cover more African peoples and history.
Mzn..I'm in the Caribbean..and i shared this video..and this thing has resonated so much with ppl..it gives us a sense of identity because we identify with so much of the culture..
This is amazing. Ever since I found the music of Fela Kuti, I’ve been fascinated by the Yoruba culture. I hope to visit Nigeria one day to see their history and art myself. I like spicy food by American standards, but we’ll see how I do with any Yoruba dishes I’m lucky enough to try 😅
As a sort of palette warm up for yoruba food, you can familiarize yourself with mexican and Indian spicy foods. Honestly, nothing really prepares one for real Yoruba spice.
Thank you for featuring our people! I left my homeland at the age of 14 for a better education in London. However I still visit my family who loves my souvenirs, but honestly the gift of seeing my grandmother still alive at the age of 87 who can still sprint is the greatest. Shoes in Europe create deformities to our feet. The best way to run is to be as close to barefoot as you can with our toes splayed out along with a zero drop in the heel. None of my family have bunions except for me. Thank you for the video!
The Yoruba have really kept a lot of their culture alive. I speak the Yoruba language though not Yoruba. They are sometimes unbelievably accomodating to other tribes. A yoruba woman actually made it her duty and keenly so too to introduce me at least to her lovely daughter on finding out that I was still single and I am not even Yoruba!
As an African American descendant of slaves, this information is absolutely fascinating; much appreciation for making this video, I plan to be studying this a lot more!
@@CogitoEdu oh, please do! Bahia will receive you with open arms! If youre able, visit Salvador, Chapada Diamantina, Juazeiro and Canudos, some of the most culturally influent cities around the state!
I have many Yoruba people as clients in my office, I have always been curious about their background and language. Thanks for the video. I know the Yoruba were influential in various hispanic cultures too.
I've seen so many videos that purport to tell Yoruba history. With all modesty, I say this is the most appealing of them all. It shows that your references are authentic. Your presentation also caters to our sensibilities. Good job. Cogito, ẹ ṣeun.
Hello all, I'm a Cuban American and I'd like to say that Yoruba culture is also extremely prominent in Cuba as it is in Brazil. It's interesting that the culture has been maintained so well in Bahia but in Cuba there are still many religious services conducted in the Yoruba language, especially by the Abakua order. Many Cubans (I imagine this is the case elsewhere) denounce the Yoruba religion and culture as barbaric but I strongly advise against this mentality. While the Europeans gave us many good things, we would not have the vibrance and life in our culture and music without the Yoruba soul. To all the Yoruba of Africa today, continue to bless the world with your rich traditions and never let anyone delegitimize your nation, you are a great people!
I knew the Yoruba culture had a huge influence in Brazil, and was already very excited for the video because of that, but reading the comments, apparently they influenced a whole lot of different countries!!
Even in Africa. There seems to be something pervasive about our culture. Even one video, the one with Luptita Ngoyo where she visits Benin, shows how Yoruba captives in neighboring Dahomey influenced the local community with their dance customs and spirituality under less than ideal circumstances
This was well researched and articulately delivered. Took me right back to those history lessons I was brought up on. Thank you for telling my people’s story so well.
I'm from Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state in Brazil. It's amazing how the culture here is heavily influencied by the Yorubá people! From food to religion, we've had inherited a lot from our ancestries in Africa! Fun fact: Every year, in the 4th of December, we celebrate the St. Barbara's day, which is an example of the religion syncrethism, because in the same celebration, Candomblé people celebrate Iansã, which is the wife of Shango, cited in the video. She is also linked to thunders and storms like her husband and people also wear red in her honor in this day. P.S.: By coincidence, 4th of December also happens to be my birthday 🥳😁!
I have vary fond memories of saint cosme and damião, when i would go on getting candy. this festivety is heavily influenced by the candomble cult of ibeji
The comments show this video has really struck a chord, and deservedly. For us gringos there are great Yoruba and Brazilian authors (esp. Jorge Amado from Bahia ) who illustrate the creole culture resulting from the diaspora, and there are English translations available in many US libraries. The Santana song "Jingoloba" is for the Orisha Shango and is probably the most recognizable chunk of Yoruba culture for (at least olderfolk ) US. Kinda funny that what many Americans think of as "Latin music" has plenty African roots, but it shows that the slave trade wasn't just to "El Norte."
Well done. Thank you for a very accurate and respectful presentation. Congratulations to the wise Yoruba people who still honor their ancestors by practicing their culture, especially spritually.
In Trinidad and Tobago..it's called Accra..and yes we need our ground provision like cassava..and taro.( Dasheen)...and we love our Spices.. And yeah..we're big on partying..
This is an excellent piece of content, rich and comprehensive in its horizontal and vertical details. As a Yorùbá person who is on a mission to revive the language and culture, I find this a very helpful reference material. Apart from coming to watch this video all over again as many times as I can, I'm now subscribed and looking forward to more from you Cogito.
Tremendously instructive video about how advanced Yoruba civilization has become. The nomenclatures, religious practices, cuisine and Yoruba traditions in general shown in your video are very familiar to Brazilians from the Northeast and Southeast, they are impregnated in their culture.
Cogito, I want to add one more thing to this video, the Christian missionaries that brought the latin script to the Yorubas were actually once captive Yorubas who never made it to the new world in the west but were rerouted and released at Freetown Sierra Leone where they were tutored into the European missions. After that, they came back to Yorubaland, from Freetown, and reformulated the Yoruba language into written form according to how they had learned. Two names to credit are Samuel Ajayi Crowther who created the first Yoruba-English dictionary in the 1800s and translated the entire Bible to Yoruba, in that same period, and also Samuel Johnson who wrote the book "A history of the Yorubas" in the 1800s to document our history
you should know the latin script was not invented by europeans but corrupted from the phonecians who were caananites of Ham and the phonecians themselved corrupted it from the ancient egyptians. that is why the latin script is mroe than sufficent to house the yoruba language.
I am from the Southern Caribbean, and I recently noticed on a video by Langfocus how similar Ebe Yoruba grammar is to our local dialect, though as I understand it, Igbo played the biggest role. I also noticed how close the traditional wear here is to Yoruba clothing, though I don't know how much is passed down versus how much is copied post-colonialism. Watching this makes me just want to deep dive into my own family history though ofc I don't know how far I'd get 😅.
One of my favorite West African ethnic groups and the people of my girlfriend :). Their history and traditional structure is very complex and interesting to study, and their wedding events are quite aspiring.
Really awesome video well done! I spent a month in Nigeria mainly in Yorubaland and and very grateful to have this video to kind of contextualize a lot of it! Thanks again for your work!
Hello there, I watched all your videos. You guys were amazing. You treated everyone with respect. Your humility is what many RUclipsrs should aspire to be.
Beautifully presented about Yoruba people and their culture. I was promoted to look this up after reading a Catenian memoriam about a Yoruba gentleman Babs Smith who passed away on 16 June 2022.
I love this. As A Yoruba, Nigerian Woman, Thank You. But, The Greeting" Pele" is mainly for when one is Sick, Hurt Bad or something bad happened to someone like An Accident. The Proper Greeting is 1. The time of the day you are greeting, Let's Say It's Morning Time, We say " É Ka róó ó, Bawo ní" Bawo ni means "How are you" as a form of "Hello".
There are many people of Yoruba heritage in Orlando and S Florida. Beautiful people with such a great history. Thanks for showing the African Grey Parrot! Sacred ancient wisdom!
I'm from a smaller tribe called the Urhobo and I'm surprised by how many features of my ethnic group's culture have strong influence from the Yoruba culture.
Absolutely love your enthusiastic narration and bringing forward interesting, varied and lesser explored topics for people to learn. Definitely resharing.
Amazing video! The whole Yoruba civilization is really cool and fascinating. BTW, have you seen the video about the Yoruba language that Langfocus made recently?
Thank you. Yoruba culture is huge in Brazil, and I always feel like I should know more about it, but I never had the chance to learn it in such a comprehensive and didactic fashion.
I’d advise coming over to the motherland itself to experience the culture but if you can’t for any reason, I understand there are a number of Brazilian Yoruba people that come over every year for our festival celebrations. I believe you can learn a lot from them also. Oduduwa a gbé wa o!
I’m a Yoruba person who was born in the UK and it is so cool finding out how our culture influenced African and world history. I knew a lot of these by the political history and the archeological facts were new to me 😂
This is some of the best coverage of Yoruba history I've seen. Truly outstanding work. Well done! Also hat tip for even attempting to pronounce to many Yoruba words. It's a tonal language as you said, with very slight inflections changing the meaning of words, and those tones aren't easily picked up or replicated by Europeans, so A+ for effort!
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how is this one day ago and the vid 18 seconds ago?
@@RobProb-X you can have a video be up before, and not have it be public
@@RobProb-XVideos can be private before upload.
Please please please make a video about the Bemba people of Zambia if not then anything about my country Zambia. I beg
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I’m from Brazil and Cuba. 80% of my Dna is from the Yoruba people. My great great grandfather was a babalawo, his father was enslaved from Oyo by Dahomey. He was also a writer so he wrote about his life. He’s slave record shows his name was Adewale Adeniran but was changed to Manuel Dasilva. My mom is from cuba and tested her dna, most of her dna was for Yoruba people and Mbundu people from Angola/ Kongo.
BA wo ni o?
@@olajidethomas7453 Mo wa dada, ese
You are a Prince in Yoruba land.
@@tdasilva6381 A da fun e omo iya!
im in the usa mines is igbo
I am a Yoruba from Ilorin. I regard this coverage of Yoruba history as close to accurate. The illustrations really brings so much context. However, I would like to point out one thing. If you say 'pele' to me, I would assume you meant to say sorry. The other ways to say hello in Yoruba is "enle o"; pronounced as "hen leh ooo". Alternatively, you can say 'enle nibe un' or "e pele nibe un" which loosely translate to hello there. How are you is "bawo ni"
Solid knowledge!
I do think it's funny that the euro guy tries to say hello and says "I'm sorry" instead.
Are you campaigning for Yoruba to be medium of instruction in schools and universities and for Yoruba TV etc, official status? If not, these things are trivial. Your language will be effectively dead by the end of the century.
Funny some people actually used pele. Especially the older Yagba people from omi
@@SionTJobbins
Dumbest take I’ve heard in a while.
What are your basis for this bold statement?
For a language to be extinct the people plus the knowledge about the language would have to be extinct.
Now you’re watching a foreigner breakdown the language and this is the best take you could come up with.
Olodo.
“E pele” could be used to greet too.
Sometimes we the Yorubas don't know how valuable is our culture and tribe. thanks to this video for shedding more light through this and telling the world what our culture and tradition is all about.
Some of us know, trust me. At my church, you are almost sure of having a yoru a proverb or adage coming with every scripture
@@johanu_ikini that's really awesome ❤
Amazing
As an Afro-Latina in America I am so tired of my stories told by Caucasians. So damn tired. I want to go home. Learning Yoruba so I can never look back America is not it.
The reason is that they forsake the ancestors and call them evil,and pray to foreign ancestors that is why Yoruba land is not great, because we forget awon Onile.
It's crazy how successful yoruba culture has been despite all of the suffering its people have endured throughout history. I'm from Bahia, Brazil and I have to say, we LIVE the yoruba culture. It's tangible how much it has influenced our culture over there and it's beautiful to see it. The religion of candomblé is present in everyone's lives in Bahia and even catholics will engage in Yoruba's tradition every so often.
Hey Cuh 🙋🏾♀️👋🏾😉
Which suffering? Or am I not aware?
@@Iseoluwa eh😂 colonization and slavery please do research I know most of us don't know much about those times but we should learn about this things
@@Iseoluwa colonization of Nigeria and Slavery
@@connortraynor2408 Yet many of the people that left returned. Do the math
I am a Nigerian Yoruba girl. Greetings to my brothers and sisters. Love you all... "Oluwa a tunbo ma bukun wa"(God will continue to bless us). Amen
that's a very amazing phrase, thank you and amen to that!
Amen 🙏
Amen!
Axé 🙋
@@peter_gwp Thank you
Yoruba are indeed the jewels of african Tribes, their history and culture is unique. Shout out to Our Yoruba brothers and sisters from Eritrea in East Africa :)
You just made my night
I love you my brother for saying this I'm from Nigeria
Please just say ethnic group :)
@@seismicvertigo345 I am proudly Nigerian from Yoruba speaking state of kwara
Thank you
Right back at ya...
It’s actually kinda wild that Nigeria archaeological findings changed how African art was globally viewed
When the sculptures from Ife were discovered many Europeans refused to believe Africans had made them and came up with a bizarre Greek origin for them 😂
It was not Nigeria archaeological, it was Yoruba archaeological dude. Nigeria is a revision
@@seismicvertigo345 Nigeria is the name of the current geographical region it’s like saying france is a revision
@@tyronechillifoot5573 It is actually a political union. Yorubas still have their own geographical region it's just locked into 3 countries. No need to lock the non Nigerian Yoruba out of their own history and glue others who have nothing to do with that history into it. You know, like the kurds
Stop saying Nigerian, Yorubas are outside Nigeria too
Proud to be part Nigerian! My grandmother was from Lagos and she was Yoruba!
I'm Yoruba Canadian (born here, parents immigrated) and I'm so thankful you guys decided to cover Yoruba people :D
Keep up the good work!!
As a Yoruba historian, i can say it is obvious a lot of research was put into this and not mere google/wikipedia or relying on popular but uninformed narratives about the Yoruba people. I have been following this chanel for a over a year now and i'm glad a video on the yoruba was made
I'm sure the scriptwriter is a Yoruba student of history.....the details were fairly accurate.
I'm really impressed, I'm currently reading Adebanji Akintoye's A History of the Yoruba and this summary is very accurate and quite comprehensive.
But Yoruba people did not know cassava/yam before the Europeans introduced it during colonialism. This is a false information, still I agree the video is good
Who told you that we don't know yam and cassava? Do you know that there is a festival that every yoruba tribe celebrate every year that it's a yam festival? There are a lot of things that we use yam for spiritually that's in history of our fore fathers before the 16bcs so we know the two before the colonial arrival
@@lasseb5612 Yorubas are even part of the wider proto-culture that discovered yams. So you are so off on that
Yam and Cassava are totally separate things
Am a Nigerian yoruba, shout out to our brothers and sister in South America and the Caribbean,Cogito 🙌🙌 100%
Please tell your people out there about yoruba nation coming out from Nigeria soon yoruba sovereign nations soon 💯❤🌏
yes lots went to Jamaica... Along with Igbo and Ashanti
@@Amidat Yeah. it was so interesting to read that there is a place in Jamaica called Abeokuta. Like, how obvious is it? That is a direct carry over of the name of a Yoruba city
@@seismicvertigo345 seriously that's that's the name of a very old city in Nigeria
I would visit other countries in Africa except Nigeria and I would visit every Carribean islands except Jamaica both Jamaica and Nigeria are very hostile people you cannot be nice to them without them having a nasty attitude toward you
My homeboy married a yuroba woman. I had to lie on the ground to to help him convince his soon-to-be father-in-law that he had enough money to take care of his daughter. It was kind of cool that I got a chance to give their firstborn son a name
yeah, us Yorùbá have many names. every one close to the parents contributes a name to the child.
@@cokertimilehin2504 Interesting... I had a Nigerian friend who is now in USA, his name was so long with many other names in there.
@@makteko yeah, that's common. i have 15 names myself. some even have more in the most extreme of cases.
😂😂😂😂
The leing on the floor (prostrating) is not to show that you have money to take care of her (that’s what bride price is for and even that is later returned to the couple as the daughter is not for sale) … the prostrating is to show that you pleaded or you’re begging for her hand in marriage and also seeking for the father’s blessings….
@@cokertimilehin2504 15????? BRO WHATTT
Most of the Afrobeats are in Yoruba! The best ones especially are in Yoruba, the language is tonal and very good for music.
Yes nigeria dominates afro beats
@@THEONLYOBA The northern groups have about 0 afrobeats. This is a comment specifically about Yorubas
@@seismicvertigo345 I know I’m just saying that the Yoruba’s run Nigeria’s music indsutry
In fact, most genres of "pop" music over the past HUNDRED years or so were invented or influenced by people of Yoruban descent, especially in the Americas. From ragtime, to rock, to jazz and blues and hip hop. Without the Yoruba, there would be no Beatles, or K-pop, or modern Latin music, or Scandinavian metal. Global cultures have changed because of the Yoruba's cultural influence, which have shaped the world as significantly as the zero from India and tea culture from China.
Afrobeats is a combination of Fuji music a yoruba genre music and blues. It was even created and made public by a yoruba man. his name was fela anikulapo kuti. a legend 🇳🇬
I'm a son of the Candomble, with my best friend being a woman from Umbanda. I can honestly say Brazil's most beautiful things, which make up our identity today, were given to us by the Yoruba people. We will never forget their struggle and their pain, and will forever honor their sacrifice. Asè ♥
As a Yoruba person, you did a very good job on my people. Èkushe!
Sorry to be that person but get rid of the h at the back of e. Coz we have the sh sound which Is this ṣ the dot at the bottom makes the sh sound. And also there should be no sign or a dash on E because it’s a rē sound So it should be Ē̩kúṣẹ o. This might come across as rude but I just wanted to correct that 😅
As an outsider, it's interesting how the Yoruba people, along with other ethnic groups of Sub-Saharan Africa, influenced the cultures of countries in the Americas. I do think they deserve recognition for shaping the world into what it is today, at least culturally and linguistically, and I think this video has done them justice because it's been overlooked by many all around the world. Anyways, hope y'all have a happy holiday! :)
Yoruba Nation is long overdue!
Very well said. Thank you.
I'm African American and recently did a dna test and found out I'm 43% Nigerian majoriy of which is Yoruba descent, so all of this very interesting to learn of some of my ancestors
You should try learning the language!
So, do you want a cookie for your discovery or just a pat on the back. Why're you black Americans so bloody stupid? Smh
@@kingofpendragon Nope just showing appreciation for someone making a video on the history of some my ancestors. Why you get mad at that or feel the need to insult is what's really strange. There's plenty of other people that are not Americans in the comments discussing their connection to the Yoruba people, you might as well go insult and call them stupid too then?
Hi @topdigga.
Feels good you're linked to this superb ethnic group. We're more than interesting. If you'd like to know a thing or two more about us, I'm willing to be your friend and help you through it.
Peace.
That's good to know while I unfortunately know nothing about my African ancestry.
I’m Haitian and there’s tons in Yoruba words used in Haitian Vodou. Ogun, Oshun & Chango especially
Zoe cousin! 🇭🇹
Pou Ayiti!!! 😁😁 Much love from Barbados and best wishes in advance on your upcoming national day!
Chango and Ogou, but Oshun isn’t in Haitian culture
I was told Yoruba priests who were captured and sold as slaves build the foundation of Voodoo religion as we know it. And it is a different religion compare to George Romeo Voodoo the outside world know about from Living Dead films in the 70's.
@@thanakonpraepanich4284 This is true in a lot of ways. When persons were taken from West Africa to the Caribbean they were forbidden from practicing their own religions. And the enslaved persons were not from one religious area or even one tribe. So Haitian Voodoo and its cousin Louisiana Voodoo are descended practices from many of the west African practices. It even ended up becoming syncretized with Catholicism as the enslaved persons found ways to hide their practices by pretending it was Catholic. But its pretty globally understood the t.v. and media versions of Voodoo seen in Romero movies or movies like the Skeleton Key are super incorrect and meant to scare instead of inform. Voodoo/Vodou is actually a beautiful religion born out of struggle, a need for survival, and persistence of the sprit of the enslaved persons.
I’m a Yoruba Princess from three ruling houses in Oyo, Ogbomosho and Ibadan. I’m very impressed with the efforts put into this video. Well done for this.
I'm in Ibadan rn from the UK
kabiesi ooooooo
Im a Yoruba prince from Ilesa. Nice to meet you
@@thatdudee5344 I’m also from a royalty family not princes but my cousins are it from ijebu Igbo if u know where tht is
I'm from Trinidad. waz de scene famalay?
As a Caribbean man of Yoruba lineage and a practitioner of Ifa/Lukumi this is a very accurate video made by an Oyinbo (Yoruba for a white man). This Oyinbo really did his research im impressed. The animations of Oduduwa, Obatala, Ogun and Olodomare made me smile lol. Also unfortunately many Yorubas (Islamized Ilorins) did backstab each other and sold their brothers to the Spaniards and Portuguese hence why Ifa(Santeria/Candomble)is so huge in Cuba and Brasil Also I'm happy to see the Cubanos and Brasileiros claiming their ancestral heritage in the comments. Ashe O.
You seem quite vast in the Yoruba language and culture yourself.
@@oluwoleolalekansolomon7480 Yes I practice Isese/Ifa and I have a Yoruba name in my Ile..
Ashe wa
You’re the embodiment of our ancestors as they live and breathe through you! They are alive because you made a conscious effort to ensure the survival of their culture.
Oduduwa ati awon alale ile Yoruba a gbe wa o!
Irish/Nigerian here, this was such a great watch! Recognized your accent straight away which was a pleasant surprise too ❤️. 🇮🇪🇳🇬
Thank you for including the fact that Sopona/Sopono is both the Orisha of disease and healing. I wrote a paper on western conceptions of disease dieties, and they always portrayed Sopona followers as disturbing and terrorinducing disease spreaders, when they were probably native innoculators. It's such an important nuancing, and it is incredibly impactful that you don't just retread colonial stereotypes about terroristic priests spreading disease on purpose.
I actually read your paper! It was really interesting. Thank you for sending it to me, it was a huge help.
I just heard a podcast on mythology and came across sopona priests portrayed as psychotic disease spreaders. Where do i find your paper?
@@romacon6295 it has not been published, but I can send it:))
@@CogitoEdu I put so Much work into it, so I'm glad it could be used for something other than a grade.
Great video btw, the 3D animation is amazing.
Sopona (Babalu-aye) duality of positive and negative serves a purpose. You might need to invoke sopona to rain down diseases (often small pox) to weaken an invading army. You see a lot of duality in other orishas too
This is certainly one of the most accurate RUclips content out there on the Yorùbá people’s history.
Well-done!
Thanks for the video! Here in Brazil you can see the Yorubá influences in our food, music, religions, words.
One of their inheritance keep growing here where I live, the palm tree called dendê. It's used to make the oil used in the acarajé and others foods. We also hear a lot of yoruba words in capoeira and some cultural groups.
1:03 Geography
1:55 Language
4:05 History & Mythology
5:36 Building of city states
8:17 Ife expands under Oduduwa
9:58 *OYO EMPIRE*
14:37 Colonialism
15:32 Diaspora
17:54 Food
18:38 Religion
20:45 Fashion
Thanks. Fantastic
Not all heroes wear capes
What about the chicken? Where is that part?
I really like that you included a model of how palaces, houses and cities looked like. When it comes to other cultures I can imagen how they lived and thus I feel I have a better understanding, but I can picture close to nothing when I think of West African cities. Now I have an image in my head.
He paid a LOT if attention to detail. The houses were built in exactly that way with inner courtyards which the Yorubas trademarked and when he talked about the cities with the Palace of the king built in the center, the largest market nearby and the rest of the city built around it, he his giving an accurate depiction. All that not to even mention the Yoruba emblems used every now and then like when the Alaafin cogito was on a throne and there is an emblem right behind it at the window and the division of power of Oyo was spot on
As a Yorùbá Chief I say with alacrity that this video was superb.
Well done!!
Thank you!
Are those ancient gods still worshipped today?
@@desiderata8811 Very much so…..Even as far from Nigeria as Brazil and Cuba
@@Baajiki-e9x . I lived in Brazil for a while and Orishas and Yemanjá were common in Rio de Janeiro, although I didn’t know they came from Yoruba ancestry.
But what I meant is if the Yoruba people in Nigeria still celebrate the old gods the same way as their ancestors did before Christianity and Islam arrived.
@@desiderata8811 We who worship in the Old Ways are sadly in the minor minority. The Abrahamic religions are well entrenched in people’s minds. Traditional worship is sneered at and derogated. The effects of Colonialism and Religious Colonialism are pervasive. I come from a very Traditional family so, for me I venerate the Old Ways ✊🏾
That's a great documentary. As a West African , I learned a lot watching it. living in the Western hemisphere , and coming in contact with lots of Blacks from the diaspora, I always tell them that African history is very rich. There is so much to learn, so there is no need to call ourselves Israelites and Hebrews , and take from other cultures.
Brother I agree, it’s sad, I try to be nice to people like that. They keep calling me a foreigner even tho it’s my land😂and use pictures as evidence or what white people who were racist said. It’s so sad because I am learning about my culture because governments commited genocide on its natives 1930 ( the most recent large scale one. So many of us weren’t taught our culture in fear of being killed . So now I’m learning the culture and even found out more about my father lineage that decent from upper North America
Also where are you from my gf is learning about her african roots and she is Nigeria and liberian I been looking for groups that she could join to learn more about her culture
As a Yoruba person from Africa and a direct descendant of île Ife, I had a feild day with Cogito butchering every single Yoruba word he said 😂. Great video, pretty accurate ❤
Hey, Cogito.
I'm a fan and a Yoruba Nigerian. This is the second video in seeing in 2 days about Yoruba (the other one being from LangFocus).
You're doing great work and this is largely in-depth and accurate. The mispronunciations made it a bit funny to watch though.
Great job.
Lol 😆 🤣
It's interesting how they produced iron before bronze. It makes you really think about how geography, chance, etc. can REALLY change how history unfolds.
Quite apart from their heavy historical influence on the cultures of the Americas , especially in countries like Brazil , Cuba , Trinidad and Tobago and others , the modern -day Yoruba are the dominant African culture outside of Africa especially in the U.K. and USA where there have been a lot of immigration by Yoruba-Nigerian people .
This heavy contemporary Yoruba influence can be found in three main areas :
1. Christianity : the largest and most vibrant churches in the U.K. are Nigerian / Yoruba churches .
2. Music : Afrobeats music with songs sung mostly in Yoruba or Pidgin is all the rage across the world with Afrobeats stars like Burna Boy, Wizkid , Davido , Asake and others regularly staging sell-out concerts . Many non-African fans of Afrobeats in the U.K. sing songs in Yoruba and many do in fact know sone of the language .
3. The fields of Medicine and Healthcare industries : there are thousands of Nigerian medical doctors ( and also nurses ) in the U.K. and USA and most are Yoruba .
4. Heavily Yoruba districts of London such Peckham , Woolwich where it is common to hear Yoruba spoken and it is often joked that most people - even non-Africans understand a little bit of Yoruba .
5. The sheer numbers of Yoruba Nigerians in the U.K. and USA means that they are the most likely African ethnic group to intermarry with other ethnicities and cultures . This results in many mixed race and part -Yoruba people .
6. Sports : The Yoruba are very prominent in sports in both the U.K. and USA . Yoruba sports stars include the top Nigerian / Greek/ American basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo, the former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Anthony Joshua , the Arsenal and England footballer Bukayo Saka just to mention a few .
Add Dele Alli, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Adeleye, Omos and Tobi Amusan to that list
@@johanu_ikini UFC Adesanya
Add Sade Adu, Seal (kiss from a rose)
Also don't forget Akanji Man city players,Adeyemi, Dortmund players, YORUBA is the leader of Nigeria music industry
I am Yoruba and I am happy about this.
Hope you enjoy the video 😁
@@CogitoEdu 100%
@@CogitoEduHow do you say Mallard Ducks in Yoruba?
Thanks!
I have worked alongside many Igbo and Yoruba people. No matter what is going on, they just push forward. Some of the most honest, hardworking people. Much love and peace wished upon all of Western Africa
As a Nigerian I never knew this and I’m sure there are many like me who didn’t 😂😅
Thanks for this video, I won’t forget this 😊
Thanks for watching 🙂
What ethnic group are you from?
Yes that's true. I didn't know much about West African and Nigerian history, its truly amazing to learn about it. Much love from South Africa.
Clap for yourself
Wich's sad! because that's what our kings are representing! It's sad to see that we need foreigner to tell our history for us before believing In it! If this was told by one of us it would have being translate to (olorisa) wich means diety warships. Omo Yoruba eje kagbe asa wa laruge ire o.
The culture of the Yoruba people is among one of the most interesting and fascinating cultures in Africa, period. An excellent worldbuilding inspiration for anyone wanting to create a unique African-inspired culture. Thanks a lot for this video!
my writer brain definitely got some ideas from watching this ngl
I really love the Africa videos. You cover the region and it's various groups so well.
Thank you, there's more to come.
@@CogitoEduthank you so much for this. We are all tired of the Slavery rhetoric when it comes to Africa, we were and are so much more
@@CogitoEdu hey why did you decide to show yourself in this video presentation? is this how you’re going to be doing your videos from now on
@@CogitoEdu or just something you want to try out
The level of detail is amazing.. I like how this guy points out the religious tolerance of the Yorubas and we never miss a chance to throw a party. And then that humongous guest list. Every wedding is like a carnival.
It makes me happy to see Yorùbá culture so respectfully portrayed here. Thank you, brother.
I am Yoruba, and for the good job you did about my people..only way i can reward you is to subscribe to your channel.. which i just did.
Solid Yoruba history video. I leaned some things. But if I may… impart some facts, too.
1. Olodumare is god. The Orishas are god-like but not gods. Orishas are “Orishas”. Limitations of translating the Yoruba language into a European language, like English.
2. Olodumare technically has no sex/gender.
3. While there are a 401+ Orishas. Not all Orishas are categorized the same, only a few Orishas are indispensable to the religion & structure of the universe. Obatala, Yemoja, Orunmila, Oshun, Oya, Ibeji, etc.
4. While Obatala is usually represented as male, Obatala is traditionally sex/gender fluid.
5. While Obatala & Oduduwa are considered Yoruba Forefathers, Yemoja is traditionally considered the Yoruba Foremother. In traditional Yoruba-land creation-myths, according to Baale Olukunmi Egbelade Yemoja "gives Obatala water".. "Yemoja is the Orisa (deity) that brought water for Obatala-the creator, god, during the time man was molded with clay by Obatala". Can’t have clay without “water”. Thus her title as “the mother of (all) humanity”. As in one of the traditional creation myths, being one of the 16 Orishas sent from Orun to create/prepare creation.
6. Yemoja is also "the metaphysical mother of ALL the Orishas".
7. It’s confusing but technically few humans (if they were even normal to begin with) have been “defied” as Orishas, apart from the fact that not all Orishas are in the same class, type or importance. “Primordial Orishas” or inhuman-Orishas in traditional myths/legends have descended upon Earth in human forms before, only to return to Orun later.
8. In-spite of the Yoruba being patriarchal societies, Yoruba women traditionally have been powerful market women, independent land owners, Iyalawos (priestesses on par with priests), queens & queen-mothers. And even female-kings, “Oba Obinrin”, etc. Your video graphics eluded to this, but I wish your video/audio discussed it further.
9. At 16:17 you show Yemoja in a on-screen illustration, yet the audio doesn’t speak about her. Was that an error? Anyways, Yemoja’s dominion is over all rivers, & everything that has to do with pregnancy/motherhood. Such as, but not limited to the Ogun river, the largest river in Yoruba-land. The reason Yemoja (Creole: “Yemaya”) is considered the co-ruler of the oceans/seas within Latin American Yoruba derived religions, is because it’s traditionally said that she followed enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. As well as her general association with water & being Olokun’s “metaphysical mother” as well.
10. I appreciate that you mentioned “Omoluwabi”.
11. Oshun is not the Orisha of fertility, she is far far more important than that. Neither is Shango the only god of lightning. I don’t understand how female Orishas continue to be disrespected, so much in mainstream history discussions & popular sources. What sources are you using? Lol.
12. Oshun like her mother Yemoja is associated with rivers & motherhood. Oshun like Eshu is also considered a divine messenger to Olodumare (a savior of humanity in one myth), the mother of Ibeji (Orishas of multiple-births), women-s3xual autonomy, & the enabler of Iyalawos. Etc. Wow!
13. Oya is another key-Orisha! Oya is the female-warrior Orisha that guards the “gates” of the after-life, graves & cemeteries. She guides the spirits of the departed including one's ancestors (“Egungun-Oya” mother of the Egun). Oya is often attributed to the last breath of human beings before said person departs from this Earth to the other-world. Oya is often called “mother of the ancestors”. Oya in many traditional myths is said to have been the one who awarded/taught Shango his power over lightning (or stole it from him). Oya’s name translates to “she tore”.
14. The Gẹlẹdẹ is a celebration were Yoruba men honor Yoruba Mothers, it has a strong association with Yemoja.
PEACE.
Edit: “…the pyramids”. What does that mean? Egypt wasn’t the only African civilization with ancient pyramids. Do you mean, the Nubian pyramids or Egyptian pyramids?
It's amazing how similar it is to Chinese culture: deep respect for elders, important heroes can become deities, tonal language, etc.
That's most West African languages and culture
At least pre-Abrahamic
I’m of African descent and have been learning Mandarin since I was in high school. I see so many similarities between our cultures but it is sad that this information is not generally known.
@@maazi.naaniya9158 but Yoruba just seem to be the ones to do it the most we are just like that
South China culture has Yoruba people and in fluency
Thank you Cogito for covering such an important topic. So much African history has been lost to western reception and treatment. I would love for you to cover more African peoples and history.
Mzn..I'm in the Caribbean..and i shared this video..and this thing has resonated so much with ppl..it gives us a sense of identity because we identify with so much of the culture..
This is amazing. Ever since I found the music of Fela Kuti, I’ve been fascinated by the Yoruba culture. I hope to visit Nigeria one day to see their history and art myself. I like spicy food by American standards, but we’ll see how I do with any Yoruba dishes I’m lucky enough to try 😅
As a sort of palette warm up for yoruba food, you can familiarize yourself with mexican and Indian spicy foods.
Honestly, nothing really prepares one for real Yoruba spice.
Yoruba food is extremely spicy like on whole new level 😂😂😂
Be sure to visit the John Randall Center for Yoruba culture and History in Lagos. It is literally being commsioned this week and will blow your mind.
Try Pounded Yam and Egusi soup... You can get it anywhere❤️
@@ayo9703 You mean, John "Randle" Center, not Randal.
Thank you for featuring our people! I left my homeland at the age of 14 for a better education in London. However I still visit my family who loves my souvenirs, but honestly the gift of seeing my grandmother still alive at the age of 87 who can still sprint is the greatest.
Shoes in Europe create deformities to our feet. The best way to run is to be as close to barefoot as you can with our toes splayed out along with a zero drop in the heel.
None of my family have bunions except for me.
Thank you for the video!
Where I'm from..in the Caribbean..we are definitely Yoruba..and there is still a heavy orisha practice here...
Where is that in Caribbean?
The Yoruba have really kept a lot of their culture alive. I speak the Yoruba language though not Yoruba. They are sometimes unbelievably accomodating to other tribes. A yoruba woman actually made it her duty and keenly so too to introduce me at least to her lovely daughter on finding out that I was still single and I am not even Yoruba!
When is the wedding… I’ll come 😂
Me too 🤣
Yeah. That is very common lol
As an African American descendant of slaves, this information is absolutely fascinating; much appreciation for making this video, I plan to be studying this a lot more!
thank you, Cogito! i, as a bahian brazilian and a great friend of candomblé and umbanda, am very grateful for your videos! viva a Bahia!
Glad you like them! I went to a Yemanja festival in Uruguay and I'm hoping to see one in Brasil soon enough.
@@CogitoEdu oh, please do! Bahia will receive you with open arms! If youre able, visit Salvador, Chapada Diamantina, Juazeiro and Canudos, some of the most culturally influent cities around the state!
I have many Yoruba people as clients in my office, I have always been curious about their background and language. Thanks for the video. I know the Yoruba were influential in various hispanic cultures too.
I've seen so many videos that purport to tell Yoruba history. With all modesty, I say this is the most appealing of them all. It shows that your references are authentic. Your presentation also caters to our sensibilities. Good job.
Cogito, ẹ ṣeun.
Hello all, I'm a Cuban American and I'd like to say that Yoruba culture is also extremely prominent in Cuba as it is in Brazil. It's interesting that the culture has been maintained so well in Bahia but in Cuba there are still many religious services conducted in the Yoruba language, especially by the Abakua order. Many Cubans (I imagine this is the case elsewhere) denounce the Yoruba religion and culture as barbaric but I strongly advise against this mentality. While the Europeans gave us many good things, we would not have the vibrance and life in our culture and music without the Yoruba soul. To all the Yoruba of Africa today, continue to bless the world with your rich traditions and never let anyone delegitimize your nation, you are a great people!
Yoruba boy, from ekiti here but currently lives in Asia, I never forget where I'm from, greeting to all yoruba around the world.
I knew the Yoruba culture had a huge influence in Brazil, and was already very excited for the video because of that, but reading the comments, apparently they influenced a whole lot of different countries!!
Even in Africa. There seems to be something pervasive about our culture. Even one video, the one with Luptita Ngoyo where she visits Benin, shows how Yoruba captives in neighboring Dahomey influenced the local community with their dance customs and spirituality under less than ideal circumstances
There is a large Brazilian quarters in Lagos Nigeria, Yoruba people are in Brazil taken away by the Europeans. Some came back and are in Lagos
Yoruba culture was a building block of Haitian culture as we know it, and so do Brazilian culture?
Really interesting. I would love to hear more about other African cultures. As a European, I don't know much about this part of humanity.
18:12 so that's why bahia food is so spicy! very enlightening to watch this as a brazillian.
This was well researched and articulately delivered. Took me right back to those history lessons I was brought up on. Thank you for telling my people’s story so well.
Am a descendant of the great Yoruba tribe in Sierra Leone we are called Creole. Great Video
I hope you are fine. Greetings from Nigeria.
I'm from Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state in Brazil. It's amazing how the culture here is heavily influencied by the Yorubá people!
From food to religion, we've had inherited a lot from our ancestries in Africa!
Fun fact: Every year, in the 4th of December, we celebrate the St. Barbara's day, which is an example of the religion syncrethism, because in the same celebration, Candomblé people celebrate Iansã, which is the wife of Shango, cited in the video. She is also linked to thunders and storms like her husband and people also wear red in her honor in this day.
P.S.: By coincidence, 4th of December also happens to be my birthday 🥳😁!
Fun fact: I’m heading to Salvador for Iemanja’s party on February 02 !!!
Interesting. On December 4th in Santeria, Changó himself is celebrated.
I have vary fond memories of saint cosme and damião, when i would go on getting candy. this festivety is heavily influenced by the candomble cult of ibeji
Happy Belated Birthday!🎉🎊💐🎂
Lansa? In Yoruba land , OYA is wife of SANGO
brazilian here (nordestinos, rise up): thank you for your research and interest on the history that connects yorubás and modern day brazilians!
I am a Yoruba . I live in Ibadan, Nigeria. This is a well researched work. E se o.
The comments show this video has really struck a chord, and deservedly. For us gringos there are great Yoruba and Brazilian authors (esp. Jorge Amado from Bahia ) who illustrate the creole culture resulting from the diaspora, and there are English translations available in many US libraries. The Santana song "Jingoloba" is for the Orisha Shango and is probably the most recognizable chunk of Yoruba culture for (at least olderfolk ) US. Kinda funny that what many Americans think of as "Latin music" has plenty African roots, but it shows that the slave trade wasn't just to "El Norte."
Well done. Thank you for a very accurate and respectful presentation. Congratulations to the wise Yoruba people who still honor their ancestors by practicing their culture, especially spritually.
Absolutely 👏👏👏
Wow!! 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 👏🏾Really happy to see this. Good work brother. One of the best and most accurate description of the Yoruba people. Eledumare bless you
This was a great video. I enjoy learning about cultures I'm not familiar with. They have a beautiful language. The rock sculptures are incredible.
Learning about other cultures is just the best! There are so many interesting and different peoples out there.
I’m half Nigerian Yoruba and half Irish. Great to see you cover the Yoruba people
In Trinidad and Tobago..it's called Accra..and yes we need our ground provision like cassava..and taro.( Dasheen)...and we love our Spices..
And yeah..we're big on partying..
True I am a nigerian living in Trinidad you are 100% on point
This is an excellent piece of content, rich and comprehensive in its horizontal and vertical details. As a Yorùbá person who is on a mission to revive the language and culture, I find this a very helpful reference material. Apart from coming to watch this video all over again as many times as I can, I'm now subscribed and looking forward to more from you Cogito.
Thanks you for this vídeo, as a Brazilian it warm my heart to know a little bit more about my won history. ❤
Tremendously instructive video about how advanced Yoruba civilization has become. The nomenclatures, religious practices, cuisine and Yoruba traditions in general shown in your video are very familiar to Brazilians from the Northeast and Southeast, they are impregnated in their culture.
Cogito, I want to add one more thing to this video, the Christian missionaries that brought the latin script to the Yorubas were actually once captive Yorubas who never made it to the new world in the west but were rerouted and released at Freetown Sierra Leone where they were tutored into the European missions. After that, they came back to Yorubaland, from Freetown, and reformulated the Yoruba language into written form according to how they had learned. Two names to credit are Samuel Ajayi Crowther who created the first Yoruba-English dictionary in the 1800s and translated the entire Bible to Yoruba, in that same period, and also Samuel Johnson who wrote the book "A history of the Yorubas" in the 1800s to document our history
Great
And then some hadda disguise Yorba gods with Christian ditties to practice..therefore santeria
Thanks for sharing and thanks to watt this brother has done
you should know the latin script was not invented by europeans but corrupted from the phonecians who were caananites of Ham and the phonecians themselved corrupted it from the ancient egyptians. that is why the latin script is mroe than sufficent to house the yoruba language.
@@adrien1623 That's cool. He learnt it from the English Europeans nontheless.
I am from the Southern Caribbean, and I recently noticed on a video by Langfocus how similar Ebe Yoruba grammar is to our local dialect, though as I understand it, Igbo played the biggest role. I also noticed how close the traditional wear here is to Yoruba clothing, though I don't know how much is passed down versus how much is copied post-colonialism. Watching this makes me just want to deep dive into my own family history though ofc I don't know how far I'd get 😅.
This is nicely done and I enjoyed learning about this civilisation. I knew from childhood that they're a powerful people. Thank you.
One of my favorite West African ethnic groups and the people of my girlfriend :). Their history and traditional structure is very complex and interesting to study, and their wedding events are quite aspiring.
Thank you so much for this informative and educational video. Yoruba omo Oduduwa to the world. Olodumare a gbe wa o.
Thanks from Australia. Please make more videos on Africa. We don’t learn anything about Africa on Australia and so I really wanna learn
Really awesome video well done! I spent a month in Nigeria mainly in Yorubaland and and very grateful to have this video to kind of contextualize a lot of it! Thanks again for your work!
Hello there, I watched all your videos. You guys were amazing. You treated everyone with respect. Your humility is what many RUclipsrs should aspire to be.
Absolutely EXCELLENT production. Amazing work. Thank you for the in depth info-tainment.
Glad you enjoyed it!
19:48.. Yoruba will throw a party to celebrate the success of a previous party... that got me 😀😀😀
Wild - "Hey, this party is so good that I'm gonna make ANOTHER party to comemorate this one!"
Right😂😂
These people's fashion is AMAZING. Beautiful fabrics, silhouettes and designs.
Beautifully presented about Yoruba people and their culture. I was promoted to look this up after reading a Catenian memoriam about a Yoruba gentleman Babs Smith who passed away on 16 June 2022.
Crazy how I'm watching this rn from the same Ife city mentioned in the video, this video just reminded me that I'm actually at my roots.
I love this. As A Yoruba, Nigerian Woman, Thank You. But, The Greeting" Pele" is mainly for when one is Sick, Hurt Bad or something bad happened to someone like An Accident. The Proper Greeting is 1. The time of the day you are greeting, Let's Say It's Morning Time, We say " É Ka róó ó, Bawo ní" Bawo ni means "How are you" as a form of "Hello".
Ẹ nlẹ is the word.
There are many people of Yoruba heritage in Orlando and S Florida. Beautiful people with such a great history. Thanks for showing the African Grey Parrot! Sacred ancient wisdom!
I'm from a smaller tribe called the Urhobo and I'm surprised by how many features of my ethnic group's culture have strong influence from the Yoruba culture.
Itshekiri to have yoruba in their language and dress like yoruba
I believe your ancestors came from Ile Ife too according to History
@@adedamolamartins3810 I'm half shekiri and okpe
You're not a smaller tribe You're part of yoruba's .
@@samuelawokola9636 No, they aren't. Stop trying to be slick
I am Yoruba and Partially Brazilian and I will like to thank the person who made this video
Absolutely love your enthusiastic narration and bringing forward interesting, varied and lesser explored topics for people to learn. Definitely resharing.
Amazing video! The whole Yoruba civilization is really cool and fascinating. BTW, have you seen the video about the Yoruba language that Langfocus made recently?
Thanks. No I haven't seen it but I'll check it out I enjoy Langfocus
Thank you. Yoruba culture is huge in Brazil, and I always feel like I should know more about it, but I never had the chance to learn it in such a comprehensive and didactic fashion.
I can teach you
There is a large Brazilian quarters in Lagos Island.
I’d advise coming over to the motherland itself to experience the culture but if you can’t for any reason, I understand there are a number of Brazilian Yoruba people that come over every year for our festival celebrations. I believe you can learn a lot from them also. Oduduwa a gbé wa o!
I’m a Yoruba person who was born in the UK and it is so cool finding out how our culture influenced African and world history. I knew a lot of these by the political history and the archeological facts were new to me 😂
This is some of the best coverage of Yoruba history I've seen. Truly outstanding work. Well done! Also hat tip for even attempting to pronounce to many Yoruba words. It's a tonal language as you said, with very slight inflections changing the meaning of words, and those tones aren't easily picked up or replicated by Europeans, so A+ for effort!
Their art - especially those amazing masks - is amazing! Really interesting video.
I am a Nigerian and a Yoruba guy...I wanna use this opportunity to say all you said so far are accurate 100%
I'm so impressed few youtube channels aside from those dedicated to African history have this much detail on an African ethnic group like this.
This guy did an amazing job. I am yoruba and you just summarized my culture.
American here. My DNA is heavily mixed with many African tribes. But I share DNA with Yoruba the most @ 20%. Glad to know more about my people.
Your research of the Yoruba culture is both thorough and impressive. Big kudos to you!!! 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍
This is great. I am Yoruba and a historian and this is one of the most accurate historical construction of the Yoruba people. Good job