Though the origin of the Yorubas remain enmeshed in controversies between the myth and the realities, legends and myths of origin are not peculiar to the Yorubas. In the study of history, ...

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

Atunto, a global Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has strongly condemned recent claims suggesting that the Igbo people once occupied Ile-Ife, the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba. In a statement ...

Yoruba has transversed beyond mere language or the description of a certain set of people with shared origins. It has evolved into an ideology and conceptualisation bloc with cultural specificity that ...

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

While Olagunju’s article sheds light on Nigerian history and identity complexities, I disagree with him on teaching compromised narratives to appease ethnic loyalties. This trend is becoming ...

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

A Professor of History and Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, Olukoya Ogen, has advised the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, to set machinery in motion for the floating of a ...

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

The age-long rivalry between two of the most powerful thrones in Yorubaland has reignited, as the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade, lock horns over the ...