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ON THE NAME "YORÙBÁ"
This has long been a controversial topic, but for the etymology of this ethnoym to be such a difficult issue is testament to the beauty of language. And why linguistics is such an important discipline
A thread.
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@theereal_one
Modern White people love animals more than actual members of the same species
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@insultsrare
Sometimes the negative comments even come from their head. Nobody is giving any negative comments
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@shesokayhere
It's unfortunate that it takes a "my brother had been there" to understand where the man was coming from
We don't need to be like this
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@abbienaija
We are Nigerians not US Americans
Tiago grew up in Oyo around people who wouldn't be offended by this
Too much consumption of western media and no sense of your own surroundings
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Arojinle is my man, I like how he's giving them knocks on the head. Àwọn wèrè.
How can you expect someone to not protect his culture. They want to gag all Yoruba big accounts
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You that is staying on brand
What's your brand? What's your usefulness?
Imagine these useless influencers triggered because Arojinle is not a bastard like them.
That Arojinle boy is really foolish. I wish he didn’t turn like this.
How is it hard for you people to stay on brand or stay sane ???
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@OyinSoExtra
@sal_empress
Very stupid response. Not to be rude ended up being rude
You could have just ignored
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@DAQUANDSG
Imagine the most beautiful girl of the bunch thinking she's the only ugly one because of what ridiculous people say
I hope she is strong willed and self aware, not letting the hate get to her
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We need to protect
@tinukevibes_
from this unholy attempt to disgrace her for being Yoruba and dancing to a davido song in excitement during her hajj in mecca. This is the problem with political and social hegemony the North is trying to impose on all Muslims in Nigeria,
PS MUSLIM UMMAH LET'S REPORT
@tinukevibes_
⚠️ We are in a generation full with cursed individuals; this ignorant Yoruba girl went to the middle of the holy land(Kaaba), Saudi Arabia dancing to a music.. did you remember one Ignorant man that went there wit
@officialABAT
's poster?
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@kwets11
@Wizarab10
Ok so what's the enjoyment here?
Second family because someone played with a syringe and like its a male genitalia??
You people are not normal o
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It's even worse 🤣 cus
@arojinle1
never supported Tinubu. They are after him because he's a Yoruba guy doing Yoruba content
To them promoting Yoruba = Promoting Tinubu
They assault
@egi_nupe___
for voting for ATIKU, and they are doing the same here against
@arojinle1
for voting for PBAT. I don't get the context that says you're not a decent citizen if you don't vote for LP. Democracy indeed 🤣
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@kosi_annie
I've seen several good points that shame this take on Simone Biles-Owens and Jonathan Owens
But the fact that bitter feminists can't allow a woman just be happy with her husband is telling.
Are you all against women being happy with their man cus you couldn't find happiness?
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@Deborahmoses_s
Christians in the west?? What does that even mean?
So if it's Muslims being killed, you would call on Muslims in the west?
You lose us when you try to use religion as an identifier
Humanity, sympathy, solidarity and justice shouldn't be directed towards those of same religion
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@justlashawn_
Black Americans always the ones crying. I don't see Jamaicans or Haitians or afro-Brazilians repeating this every 7-working days
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@OlawumiPK
You are not serious if you think this is Tinubu setting anything
Also why is it that you lot mention Tinubu but you know to leave obi out despite obi and his obidiots bringing Yoruba hate to the fore
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@NoNonsensezone
Both of his parents are from Portugal, but his mom is an onisese and brought him to Oyo at a tender age.
Tiago Iṣọla na oyinbo for blood, Yoruba at soul
At least he thinks Yoruba, not like some people
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@Stezo4life
@SamerN3nou3
@wayotworld
Still white
You lump all black people together when you want to run your racist jokes
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You won't worry about your own culture and traditions??
It's Yoruba you don't even like, that you are pretending to worry about
I pity the gullible Yoruba buts still following these ipob Obidients
The damage that
@officialABAT
has done to Yoruba Culture and Tradition is unimaginable.
This man is the worst of everything Yoruba
Chukwu Aju 🤮
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So all this long talk and tears is because a Yoruba man with igbo mother doesn't hate his Yoruba side? Lmao
You think everyone will be like your pay master roads 5 4
Your mother is igbo
Your wife is igbo
Your children are more igbo than yoruba.
Your children can’t even speak yoruba, they speak only igbo.
But because you want to please your pay masters and agbado slaves, you throw your family under the bus and constantly play tribal
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@westerosies
Haleana didn't deserve this. But a son for a son. A pity she had to be born to that side of the family
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@KaliFontanilla
This one thinks current events exist in a vacuum
Saying "black is beautiful", having black sections in a white dominated society is a direct reaction to a history, you can't possibly be so uninformed that you don't know this history. These are things that didn't just dropped from
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Omo imagine if Yoruba had a sovereign state to push tight diplomatic relations with Brazil and other south American and carribean countries.
The yoruba descendants in Brazil are doing a better job at recognising our Yoruba heritage than yorubas in Nigeria.
The love is too much ❤️
Arole Oduduwa, Olofin Adimula, Ooni of IFE; Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi Ojaja II CFR woes Brazilian Parliament for Isese Day, Inducts President Lula DaSilva and Wife as Descendants of Oduduwa during historic 5 days Visit to Brazil.
Yoruba Culture ✨
📸
@itsdshow
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Yes Yorùbá ronú is xenophobic, bigoted, nazist, demonic, crime against humanity. Take the Yoruba nation to ICC. No need for any Yoruba to explain anything to these dullards whose way of politics will forever be propaganda
Keep crying because you lost an election fair and square
Your gaslighting won't work. Some of us will keep reminding you of the evil you unleashed in the name of yoruba ronu
You called many of us here omo ale, eru, and the likes. Even those we thought were enlightened unmasked and became thugs
We can't sweep it under the carpet as if
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Yoruba ronú is the best thing to happen to yoruba people in this generation
Even the next couple of generations will still be benefiting from this awaken yoruba consciousness
@arabinrin_aduke
@TheDimejiLateef
I'm beginning to thank God for this Yoruba ronu movement. In the past, such disrespectful disdain would have occurred without repercussion but now, there's instant clapback.
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😂😂🤣 Yoruba man says "bole"
That's how you know this iidiot is cosplaying. It's igbo or one southern minority
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Oba Ewuare is a Yoruba man not edo
And Toyin is paternally Etsako and maternally Yoruba. Mercy is paternally Esan and maternally Yoruba.
So both are Yoruba women by mother, their reputation, work and life.
Neither of both actresses have any connection with edo culture
Esan and
TOP 10 NOLLYWOOD HIGHEST GROSSING ACTRESSES 2023
TOYIN ABRAHAM
MERCY AIGBE
NANCY ISIME
SANDRA OKUNZUWA
Are Edo Actresses on the list.
Mercy & Toyin are not Yoruba people!!!
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Somebody with two Bini parents, he honors and respects Benin and the Edo people. A tested and known face
But he can't be governor because he has a Yoruba first name
Mind you there are Yoruba minorities native to Edo state o, so that's also saying those people can never produce
This morning, a young man in his late 20s/early 30s, pointing at LP Olumide Akpata's billboard inside the airport, told his colleagues that he's a joker for running for Governor in Edo state with a Yoruba first name. The contrast between reality and Twitter is hilarious; 😂.
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@graceyrself
I don't even think a family that failed to raise its boys well could raise its girls well
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@arojinle1
Interesting, but why roll over like a kitten 😂😂😂
I have to say that's not very kingly
Tiger fall my hand here
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@danishacarterr
I'm not gonna lie you're actually right.
Men have no community to deal with male specific problems
Even to men, it's every man for himself
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@jessy_kween
Your Yoruba father failed you.
Now all you can do is not fail yourself, go learn the language, embrace the culture and learn some history of your family lineage
Otherwise "my daddy is Yoruba" isn't enough
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In our own land we can't even talk about our own best interest. The previous generations of Yorubas really set a bad precedence
Lol, I am in a bus from Ajah to Obalende and I am arguing tribalism and politics in this bus, them dun dey threaten to beat me 😂😂
God Abeg oo.
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Mehn the way people expect a Yoruba person to not promote anything Yoruba is wild... Even when the person is harmlessly just promoting it without thinking of ethnicity.
But no such expectation when the person isn't Yoruba 😂
Buygotree indeed
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NORD is efficient, reliable, durable and has second hand value.
Built in Lagos, it can withstand Nigerian roads; spare parts are available.
Buy NORD. Promote NORD. RT this!
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Since 1960 this is the first time Yoruba politics is actually getting to federal level.
Amazing how Tinubu put an end to Yoruba decades of playing opposition
And in true Yoruba fashion, as the fair people that we are, Tinubu's administration should benefit all ethnic groups
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🤣🤣🤣
This people think they can do divide and conquer on the Yoruba nation.
They've not finished addressing Ikwerre, Enuani, Ika, Ogba, Ekpeye etc who speak Igbo dialects but reject the Igbo tag, especially Ekpeye and Ikwerre that will beat an igbo man up if he calls them Igbo
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Most African Americans are Temne and Mende descent taken from modern Sierra Leone and Liberia for their expertise in rice cultivation.
They outnumbered both igbo and Yoruba brought to the 13 colonies
But Mrs. Adaeze can't help but use slavery of her people to brag against
Can’t wait til most African American find out they’re Igbo and not Yoruba
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@TheGeniee_
And this is enough to create an unhappy home for yourself??? You can't talk like a reasonable person to your husband?
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@AfricanHub_
I'm getting tired of this silly behaviour of calling every dark skinned person black
Anyway, I don't even like the term "black" as a racial term, probably what's confusing a lot of people.. You lot are taking "black" literally, so any dark skinned person to you is black
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@joanna_sentz
@xo_yazzie
@blekjpg
So you expect an afro American to come to Ghana and reconnect with his roots by going to big cities where there's nothing he can't find in the US?
It's the small places where the culture is most alive that feeds the soul. Even for us as Africans
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@TheDimejiLateef
@Mobimpeoyebade
@niyiakinmolayan
Directed by Niyi??
I wonder how the Yoruba women in this movie are portrayed
Besides we already have a Lisabi movie from years back directed by Yemi Adegunju, very good quality and acting and also in terms of historical accuracy (better than I would expect from this one)
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All the names of the Odu are derived straight from Yoruba language. This further disproves the theory that Ifá is some Proto-Kwa/Proto-Benue-Kwa divination system that Yoruba and neighbours share as a common heritage.
Ifá is rather of pure Yorùboid origin that Yorubas taught our
Profound Similarity between the Yoruba 🇳🇬🇧🇯🇹🇬 divination system IFA and the Ewe 🇬🇭🇹🇬 divination system EFA.
The Ewe and Fon people of Togo, Ghana and Benin acknowledge the Yoruba holy city of ILE IFE as the home and origin of ifa.
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@Sekakama
@tinukevibes_
Because they are foolish
She didn't even do anything wrong. She wasng disrespecting Islam in any way. The people of mecca didn't harass her but it's some extremists on social media back in Nigeria that think they are more Muslim than everyone else
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No identity was forced on Toyin and Mercy
They embraced the Yoruba identity wholeheartedly, and we embrace them too
Which Rema? 😂
This one doesn't have anything else to say he's creating scenerios in his head
See how Yoruba people are wailing under my Cs because I reminded them that Toyin & Mercy are not Yoruba people, it’s funny are they are trying to force Yoruba identity on them becux they are into Yoruba movie.
Link it to why they talk down on REMA & you’d get the whole picture.
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Compass wasn't even a European invention. And Africans built ships too. East Africans were sailing to India, Persia and China. A number of African kingdoms had cartographers making maps etc etc
So much understanding of history and the nuance involved is absent in this thread.
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How do you know someone is not bright?
They can't think beyond what isn't immediately in front of them.
This one is trying to justify labelling yorubas as lazy thugs because of Agbero in a Yoruba state being Yorubas
As if Agbero in Owerri aren't Igbos
Very foolish girl
Speaking on your number 2:
Not a single part of her tweet is untrue but you’d rather live in denial.
Who are the rogues at bus stops harassing for money.
Go to Oyingbo market , who are the people you pay to pass a certain street with load ?
We all know the truth.
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@Breaking911
This is funny though. Cus how those students doing a pro-Palestine protest pose danger to his children at home
He should stop using his children for emotional blackmail. Just say you don't like the protests, it's all about you
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This is Yoruba culture. Not Nigerian culture
It is immoral and completely insane to Nigerianize the Yoruba thereby denying non-Nigerian Yoruba of their culture
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Thank God you said "you Yoruba people"
Anytime Yoruba enemies sense yorubas moving in unison they always say "Yoruba aren't united" citing our civil war that happened in the 19th century, ignoring other centuries of peace..
Why does Yoruba unity give sleepless nights like this?
You Yoruba people are not as united as you think, there are more than 7 variants of the Yoruba culture & they are not the same nor united with each other. We have Ekiti, Ondo, Ijebu, Ibadan, Oyo, Egba, Yewa, Awori just to mention a few.
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The previous generations really taught us rubbish in this regard. Shrink yourself so that others won't feel uncomfortable, displease yourself so others will call you good names.
The good names in question we no even see, they bash Yoruba all the time. So what is the essence of
We all know some Yoruba politicians should to be stoned with heavy bricks.
When it’s time for appointment and contract, they hire non-Yorubas.
When they are about to be displaced by thesame non-Yorubas, they will start screaming Yoruba Ronu.
It will be well with you, but it
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Saying "Olotu Odibo" is an Edo phrase is like saying "deja vu" is an English phrase.
Everyone knows Olotu, Odibo are not original Edo words just as deja, vu are not original English words.
These things happen all the time across languages and most times local native speakers
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐔 𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐁𝐎 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 “𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐔-𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐁𝐎” 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐒 𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃
The Eletu Odibo family holds a revered position as part of the “Akarigbere Chieftaincy”kingmakers in Lagos Island, wielding significant influence in the selection of the Oba of Lagos.
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@Fenrirtheicewo1
People complain about so much nonsense
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Korra's bending preferences
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@WunmiWonka
The overwhelming majority of Nigerian men aren't even like that, they like to fulfil their financial responsibilities, so which one is "Nigerian men want", say the men you know. Nigerian men may have problems in other areas but not in that
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"Binis founded Lagos, Igbos developed it"
Yet the place is just oozing with Yoruba and British colonial markings
It's funny the British aren't claiming Lagos 😂
It's Nigeria that caused all this disrespect cus the British would respect a sovereign state enough to not claim
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The problem with saying Benin founded Lagos is that it is to run a sinister agenda. It's a clever way to put the establishment of the Lagos Monarchy under patronage (not by) of the King of Benin (most likely Oba Ohuan, the Omonoba who died childless), while ignoring the fact that
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I so much love the ethnoym "Olukumi"
It is one of two ethnonyms for Yoruboid people with a direct Yoruba language derivation, others like "Anago" , "Yoruba", "Allata" , "Iyaji" , "Eyagi" have non-Yoruba touches(but still likely ultimately of yoruba origin). The other being "Aku"
My apologies to my brothers and sisters Ira oke (Yoruba’s) 🙏🏼 my network was unable to allow me give my thoughts on the topics “Yoruba and itsekiri relationship” yesterday. I hope we can do this again soon.
We are one and My thoughts hasn’t changed. The Yoruboid speaking people
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@GoldmyneTV
This man just likes lies
Igbos lost more to the June 12 annulment?? What a disgusting liar
Abacha was killing Yoruba protesters, assassinating and imprisoning yorubas, even yorubas in the military were not safe
Is this not the man who took pride to have worked for Abacha?
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Yorubaland needs to plant more trees within residential areas as part of its urban aesthetics, meaning a city/local government/state initiate.
I've noticed asides Ikoyi, residential areas are lacking in trees.
We don't have to make it that trees belong to the forests alone.
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All these ipobs just wish this was the case for Lagos. They fantasise all day about how igbos will grab Lagos like this.
Fulani grabs Ilorin as Yoruba Ronu watch helplessly wishing it was Igbo that grabbed it.
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@Defiqueenn
@instablog9ja
I've been seeing this one drop senseless takes lately
Wetin concern insecure with not wanting disrespect
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Thing about some Yoruba lumping southern minorities with Igbos is not completely out of ignorance. It's a recognition that political igbos recruit these minorities to their Igbo cause, and such Yoruba persons don't rate these minorities as capable of having their own cause
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Yoruba buts will see this and keep quiet.
@jidesanwoolu
finds nothing wrong with this rhetoric.
But these people are on colos truly. You built Lagos, but you can't build your land. You are all over yorubaland, in every state trying to force your way into the politics of the
Igbos own 99% of Lagos, If Yoruba People wants War we are 100% ready to fight them to the last Man. This is not 1967
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@NsPostingFs
This is funny, given that people of African descent have the best hygiene overall, unlike some who go to near extreme lengths not to smell.
You would meet countless people who have never met a black person that smells, can't say the same for others
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1. Olukumi of Delta state did not run away from Yorùbáland.
2. Their land in aniocha north is not igboland... They could very well have fallen into Edo state when Bendel State was split. They border Esan and Enuani people.. Enuani who sometimes deny Igbo
So which one be igboland
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@yodifiji
Yorubas still have never had need to post Femi Otedola's or Alakija's house to brag. Her point remains valid.
We should be posting our father's houses if we want to brag
Btw which of the Alakija's is your father?
Which alakija is igbo?
I hope you're not just using Tinubu hate
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Such dedication to what you think you know about Yoruba history. But Ozor will never tweet about any igbo history, cus he knows none. There's nothing to read, no elder to teach, no tradition to refer to.
It's pathetic
“Lagos does not belong to the Yorubas”— Oba Akiolu(Oba Of Lagos).
This statement was released by him in 2017:
“Modern day Lagos was founded by Prince Ado, the son of the Oba of Benin, Prince Ado was the first Oba of Lagos, the son of the Bini King, Prince Ado, named the town
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@MichaelJesuit
@qweensayrah
@chudikokoli
@_EtniesJags
But how can't you see the stupidity in this thing you just tweeted.
Does that look like an event for dancing.
Btw, what is "if nah wizkid", why didn't world leaders call wizkid to perform for them?
A lot dumb youngsters these days
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Some foolish Obidients are being intentionally obtuse. You can't be there and have intellect.
They are asking "is Tinubu Yoruba culture"
But Arojinle never protected Tinubu... The fact that they see protecting Yoruba culture as synonymous to protecting Tinubu shows that they see
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Not gonna lie, none of this is new or shocking to me.
Political igbos have always been proud of their hate for Yoruba, they wear it like a badge. And these sentiments trickle down to the average igbo who may not even be political because they consume their political propaganda
💥 “If you give Igbos 10 years in Lagos, we will chase the Yorubas to chad 🇹🇩, the rest will become beggars in their own land.”
💥“It show that Yorubas are useless, the truth is that most of these Yorubas are like slaves! Most of them don’t know their mothers, Because of the
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@xandersmom
@Glock_Topickz
You lot are so miserable and bitter and actually hate to see other women happy
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@Adeolatwist
@tinukevibes_
Mr. Adeola please focus on being a good father to your daughters
Showing excitement to be in mecca is leading girls astray? Does that make sense to you?
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@tina_21lol
Slave trade only began to be outlawed in the early 19th century but Africans were still being brought illegally until much later (last slave ship in US was 1860).. So less than 200 years
And does an African elephant in New York stop being an African elephant?
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@fanning_stan
So there's so many black American women obsessed with white men like this
Like who makes a collage of something like that 😵💫
Another one is proud of black women being forced by white enslavers 😖
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@AreaFada1
Yoruba people will give you lot big headache for the next 8 years.
But it's your headache, feel free to not mind your business and worry about your own people
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@renoomokri
Very disrespectful, ipob no try at all
But we know they have no respect for royalty
The Binis too followed them to insult the Ọ̀ọ̀ni
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@BougieBlackGurl
No one would think children are punishment. It's just control, people want to feel powerful by dictating to others
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@instablog9ja
The funny thing is that as much as this is painful, it's the man she said yes to that would likely see shege
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