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I've been doing a lot of research about my ancestry and I through DNA tests I've discovered that I am 70.5% Yoruba. I appreciate the facts and I wish to know more about my heritage.
Jeremy Davis if that is your picture you definitely look like Yoruba men that I have seen. That's a lot of Yoruba showing.
You definitely look like we the Yoruba
Hey Jeremy, I just found out that I'm 65.1% Yoruba. What's buzzing cousin? lol
you look straight up Nigerian lol
Jeremy Davis I am 75% yoruba
hello cubans too i am yoruba yemaya
Another interesting fact is Yoruba is the largest ancestral heritage that makes up African Americans. The average African American is 47% Yoruba.
Where did you get this information from? And what states in America have that kind of dn
Wow
Liar! Stop spreading misinformation. Most of you are of Igbo ancestry
Mandinka, Yoruba , Igbo and more 😊
The Caribbean here too !! i happen to love lots of plantain , Okro ,yams and cassava maybe i'm Yoruba too, i will take my DNA test to checked
Killing twins did not happen in Yorubaland. This happened in the other parts of Nigeria. In fact twins were highly treasured by Yoruba people in pre-colonial times. That is why there are even twin deities in the Yoruba religion.
He knows but he is being diplomatic as most Yorubas are. That is why he did not mention the actual group that deleted twins in the past
@@aeiou0123he's ignorant
your forget cuba my great great mother was from oyo
Do you know some Yoruba words and phrases 😂
Very interesting. I think I'm a yoruba and don't know it.
@@oladele1122 Actually, both Brazilians and Cubans use Yoruba words that aren't used anymore even in Nigeria.
@@obatalaosun2222 Brazilians and Cubans use mispronounced and misspelled Yorùbá words.
There’s a lot of Yoruba in 🇨🇺 Cuba!!
I feel like the twins are a genetic trait of Yoruba people. I am about 70% Yoruba and I have a lot of twins in my family and we came over here during slavery.
Same here, I have Yoruba in my blood and my family seem to have twins pop out every generation.
The mcClure twins, their mother Aminata (Amy) is a Yoruba.
I also learned that Yoruba culture takes a strong value in respect, peaceful co-existence, loyalty, and freedom of speech. Women played leadership roles in religion, especially ritualistic ceremony.
Yeahh...the Yoruba are liberals.....women can take leadership roles and they are one of the tribes in Nigeria that rarely fight because of religion
They are evenly distributed.... Islam dominate the oyos and ilorins while the ijebus,kabbas,ijeshas and ekitis are more likely to be Christians
Received my afrikan ancestry results back and found im 99% Yoruba..which brought me to this channel..excellent information as I reverse engineer my roots
99%? Wow
Yoruba as well
I can't believe that there's no mention of the Yoruba influence in the Caribbean. He only mentioned Brazil. Santería is based on the Yoruba gods or Orishas. The drummer tradition with the 3 drums is strong too in Bomba music in Puerto Rico. The Bata drum is the one that improvises and the other two maintain the beat. Beyonce also makes reference to Ochún and Yemayá in the song "Hold Up". She's dressed in Ochún colors (copper or gold) coming through a door with Yemaya's waters flowing around her. Ochún and Yemayá being sisters.
Jose R. Nevarez I'm sure he didn't realise that during compilations, kudos to him for the brief attempt! The young shall grow and I'm sure by now, he would have realised that.
He is also ignorant of Yoruba oral history, tradition and spirituality. Because you're born Yoruba doesn't mean you are an knowledgeable about it.
There's a community in Jamaica called Abeokuta as well!
THIS IS WHAT THEY DO........IT IS TO CAUSE ENMITY DISSENT AND MISINFORM... SEE THIS REPLY I HAVE HAD TO GIVE ANOTHER PROBLEM RESPONSE AND RESULT OF THE MISINFORMATION...
....... because their name from Biblical times was YARIBA ..It's even what Yehuda MatitiYAHu "Makabi" was.. Maccabees 2:1 Maccabee ~~ MAKABI "i shall overcome /defeat evil/war/problem ..the text says HE CALLED HIMSELF MAKABI "Maccabee"
check for all instances of YOBAEL, YERUBAEL, YERUBABEL, YARUBAEL, YARUBABEL, YARIYB, YARIBIYM, ....... yes the tribes called themselves as other collectives they took on for administrative purposes, remember Ephrathites {Ehphraim} remained "hebrew / Israelite" while maintaining Ephrayim, same goes for Ga "Gad", Da "Dan", Shimoni "Simeon", Asheeri "Asher" , LeWI "Levi", etc....... you get the point.. then the word "Hebrew" comes from ErhVErh, and The entire people called themselves ErhVErhO EVEO which became by dialectic nuances and interactive dismantling influence of invading caucasian and arabic spies under guise of exploration and friendly interaction OYO'O sometimes this arose as a result of the WRITTEN record of what the caucasian "visitors" decoded as what they have heard being pronounced which from experience today, is oft far removed from the source, we see how they murder our names and anything in our language when they try to speak, they then write down what they ronounce, document it and then come with authourity to tell us this is how it is in writing, and our people then get schooled in these eccentricities.. ErhVErh in it's FULL Linguistic Rendition IS actually ErhFVwErh this gave rise to IFE .. I'll just stop here..
Haiti. Is 100% Yoruba people.
Food, look, culture.
I was in UK and a lady just spoke the language to me without even thinking of asking me first.
I had to stoped her that I wish I understand your language. She was stunned to realized I wasn’t her relatives.
We looked so much alike. Body shaped everything.
She invited me to her home, met her family and it’s like a cloned copy of my families in Gonaives in Haiti.
I’m given a Yoruba name and I began learning the language ever since.
It’s 5 years on, I had DNA test and we happened to be 42% related.
I’m visiting her town soon.
This is maaad. None of my relatives ever been to Africa and my DNA is 42% related to Theirs. Ondo people. Your cousins are in Gonaives in Haiti 💪💪💪💪
little misinformation. Yoruba in the Americans didn't move there during colonialism but by enslavement,at least majority. However few, probably in tens, were taking as indentures to Trinidad And Tobago by the British. Indentures are cheap labours. These indentures are freed enslaved Yoruba captured on Portuguese ship by the British naval ships. Majority of these indentures Yoruba were taking from Sierra leone to Trinidad. They were mostly from Abeokuta and Oyo,Ibada to be specific.majority Yoruba were captured during war with Fon ( The Fon or Dahomey before the Portuguese armed them fought along side Oyo- Yoruba,Ewe in 1775 in a town called Atakpame in Togo to stop Ashanti territorial expansion westward) Islamic Jihadists and Ashanti ( 1775 battle at Atakpame,Togo) in battle. Majority of the battle were orchestrated by Europeans.Yoruba don't killed twins.. they always reverend and worshipped them. Twins are important Orisa. for the drums, mother drum is superior. The mother drum is Iya Ilu..
3 pointer for you. Ori e a kanke!
There was no Yoruba Ashanti battle, where are you getting this stuff from.
Beats Boy a quick google research will tell you that the Yorubas defeated the Ashantis back in the days
They used to kill twins before but that was hundreds of years ago but not now
Beats Boy you don’t know because you still being taught colonial history. Ashanti and Yoruba are not strangers. Remember, Yorubaland extends to present day Togo where they are called Ife, not Yoruba. The Battle of Atakpamé was an armed confrontation between the Ashanti Empire and neighboring Akan Allies under the leadership of the Kingdom of Akyem who joined up with the Oyo Empire and the Kingdom of Dahomey in and around Atakpamé in 1764
Just found out my roots trace back to Yoruba. So happy and proud to be part of an amazing culture!😊
How did you find out ? 23&me was useless
@@thankyou7852 yeah, tried that one. Wasn't very detailed. :( African Ancestry is more accurate and very detailed. It costs a little more, but totally it.
@@thankyou7852 plus they don't share DNA like 23andMe does
I just found Patrilineal DNA is Yoruba
Oga, beg Yoruba people NEVER killed twins or their mothers. Twins were considered deities/orisha.
Thank you.
Hmmm twins were definitely killed back in the day and they started to matter when Mary slessor banned the killing of twins
@@simiwiththejuice6750 Mary Slessor did not work in Yoruba land. Her twins saving work was done in the calabar area.
@@simiwiththejuice6750 Mary Slessor stopped the killing of twins in Calabar not in Yorubaland. Yorubas NEVER killed twins.
See the problem when Africans learn their own history from Europeans...we will be thinking rubbish like "Mary so and so stopped Yoruba people from killing twins"..."Mungo Park discovered the river Niger" and "Èṣù is Satan"
I'm ethnically Puerto Rican. My ancestry is of the Yoruba tribe as well as Danish. I want to learn more about my African ancestry so that I can move towards enlightening others as to why we should opt to identify ourselves through our shared culture rather than calling ourselves Black here in the States.
While I am technically mixed race I don't see value in the ideology of skin color and facial structures being what unites a people. I believe culture accomplishes this so I want to learn more about the culture that many of my relatives kept alive.
My ancestry dna showed lots of Puerto Rican relatives, then I found out my Patrilineal was Yoruba. Now it makes sense.
Bro its only igbos tribe that killed twins yoruba never kill any twins.
It's not even igbo it's Calabar people
rotawo Igbos killed twins too, go and read the book “ Amongst the Ibos of Nigeria” published in 1928 by GT Basden , and English missionary who lived in Igbo land . His memoirs states they killed twins
Right from the beginning of our history, we accord respect to twins as special gifts from God, we Yorubas NEVER kill twins, it was some Niger Delta tribes and igbos that kill twins believing they were evil.
Leave Igbo for once, a Yoruba presenter is here proudly presenting his culture to the world and you are here talking about Igbo..
Igbo kills twins, not Yoruba. The Yoruba worship twins as a blessing from God and always gives twins special names like Taiwo and Kehinde
Most southern Africans have yoruba ancestors, I traced mine. My ancestor in southern africa was a King and his line goes to great Zimbabwe and beyond , I noticed there was yoruba relatives that were found in mexico and other places
Yorubas are more than 44 millions around the world.
+Ant Nam me and my brother are twins our father charles yemi farimoyo he slapped me he showed me the dark side of life my name is taiwo and believe me the taste of this world is dark charles if you read this message i and the two others still live we still live i learned the truth of my name i changed alot
This is year 2020 and accordingly, Yoruba is the largest single tribe in the world, about over 100 million worldwide.
good job. yoruba never kill there twins but they see them as little god and blessings from almighty God. they always do wood carving for there twins and make a big party, drumming and dancig for them. they killed twin in east after mary slessor intervention. thank.
Yorubas traditionally celebrated and still celebrate twins. So, twin genes were preserved and favored.
With you and a lot of other people talking about the Europeans coming over to Africa, and settling I can accept my DNA results. 24% German, 20% Yoruban and 16% Italian. Overall, Yoruban and only 2% African American. It's so crazy so get those results. Now I wanna go to all the places I hold inside of my DNA. I want to learn everything I can about all three places and cultures. I'm so excited.
I’m 42% Ondo Yoruba.
Isn’t that a big deal?
If Nigeria has a sister, I would have thought it would be Cuba, followed by Puerto Rico, because they share your gods. Brazil has more in common with Angola.
Yoruba has strong influence in Brazil their orisha is from Osun orisa in Nigeria and many of the pple stolen in2 slavery came back home to settle in south west Lagos .
If there is any country outside Africa that the Yoruba have greater influence it is Brazil. The only issue is that Nigeria was not colonised by the Portuguese like Angola. Even at that the presence of the Yorubas were heavy in Brazil especially in the state of Bahia where Yoruba gods such as ogun, yemoja, orisa, osun, sango are freely worshiped.
@@oyewandejoshuakolade8997 The yoruba influence in Brasil is indeed very significant, but the first africans taken to Brasil were from Congo-Angola...
Brazil literally has two religion that come from yourba people. We were small in number but one of the most influential
Just did an Ancestry DNA....in Nigerian and of the West Bantu people🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬😱😱💚🖤❤️✊🏾
Nice one bros. However, the population of Yoruba in Nigeria is estimated at no less than 70 million. So, if you combine it with the 40 million living abroad it would top out at 114 million abi?
Good job Seun. Proud of you.
Thanks for sharing!
Very cool..!! Thanks
Great video 🔥🔥🔥🔥
My dad is carrying the Yoruba haplogroup and he has a good percentage of Nigerian in his ancestry. My family has quite a few twins on my father's side. My father had twin brothers that died. I have male twin cousins. My uncle and cousin have twins.
Whaoh! Nice to know. Thanks.
There was no clarity the way you spoke about killing of twins in the olden days. You were not clear that it never occurred in Yoruba land. It was in the calabar area. In Yoruba culture in those days, twins were considered god and a special blessing. They even idolize them.
If you are a black twin chances that your ancestry are Yorubas is 70%
Nice one
I really want to learn yoruba for my boyfriend😌
Nice video👍
In Cuba there a more ratio of Yoruba than Brazil
Yoruba don't kill their twins.
Jamaicans are mostly yoruba too.
Hi please more facts about Yuroba it's super interesting
Wonderful
Love & respect
Are all the Yoruba dialects mutually intelligible? I have known Yorubaland is large, but can I go to Benin, Togo, and Nigeria and speak to all of the Yoruba in the land?
Yes.
@@3Beatsboy Thanks. This will be my first African language as it is so useful and has official status to the places I want to go. Gives me another option than just French or English.
The Yoruba might different there because of the time and accent
@@theartistlol3279 How different? Like English in Britain and English in the States different? Or French and Haitian Creole different?
It's not different. I've heard their music, I understood their Yoruba.
I am married a Yoruba and I am from until state
Great video and accent.
Greeting from Los Angeles I discovered I am Nigerian descendant, Yoruba tribe Lagos.
God bless you sir
Yuroba's UNITE! 😍
It is the Igbo that killed twins not Yoruba.
My brother do more research, Yoruba people r d most populous in Nigeria, don't rely on post ennglish hausa fulani and their yibo surrogate census
It's Hausa my guy do more research
The boy needs to get his facts right, Yorubas are the most populous and single major race in the whole Africa and our population in Nigeria alone is over 56 million not to talk of Brazil that has over 60 million Yoruba, Benin Republic, Cuba and so many other countries in Caribbean countries.
Hello brother... i am from Pakistan nd already heard about the role of YUM in fertility... I am divorced once bcs of not having kids...now married again...i want to try these Yum...please help me from where i can get it in pakistan....from some online source ?
You might have to take a trip to Nigeria.
YOU HAVE OVER 17MILLION IN LAGOS, MORE THAN 4MILLION IN EACH YORUBA STATES IN THE SOUTH WEST, SOUTH MIDDLE BELT, EDO,DELTA IN NIGERIA
There are twins in our Family Tree dating 7 generations back. Thank you.
You can take us from home even for centuries but you cannot erase the Yoruba out of us. It will still survive! In my family we not only have twins we have triplets. And our taste in cooking is very similar to west African it's just with southern ingredients. We exist here in America there's a lot of us who also have Igbo and Akan ancestry as well. Both Yoruba and Igbo tribes traditionally believe in reincarnation as descendants so the ancestors would commit suicide as soon as they had a chance, knowing they'd return to Olodumare and be reborn back in Africa amongst family. But if their child especially a son is born in captivity they wouldn't do it for some reason, so the slave traders would breed Yoruba and Igbo with Akan partners so they wouldn't be able to communicate and eventually they'd be forced to procreate and have a child Wich would anchor the parents in captivity. A very sad fact but one that tells us how our ancestors came together. Also if you are a Black American with more than 90% Nigerian ancestry with some Ghana and sierra Leone, or the descendant of one of those people your ancestors were brought later in the slavery era, from the Caribbean, to the Carolina low country, and you have Gullah ancestry. Many were then dispersed out of the Carolinas into the interior. In my family's case Tennessee and then after emancipation and the trail of tears to Oklahoma. Which is a clue you might have been enslaved by native Americans, and thus a freeman, or were part of a tribe, or just moved to Oklahoma to claim land. But this is the info i have so far. And don't be surprised if you have east African ancestry. It happens.
Dear sir how are you? What does mean the word bembe? Because I see a drum with 2 membranes with that name.
We are representing
Great video. Most people don't know that colonial Louisiana had a large population of Nagos ("Yorubas"), specifically during the French and especially Spanish periods, then indirectly via the French again after the Haitian revolution. Nagos were most populous in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, and initiated uprisings. The other smaller but representative enclave of Nagos was in South Carolina & Georgia, forming an integral part of our Gullah-Geechee cultural complex. Our great scholar, the late Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner, collected hundreds of Nago (i.e., Yoruba) names and published them in his book, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect, in 1949.
Anagos, Yorubas are the most scattered of all the tribes.
Egusi is my favorite
I'm from yoruba to e pele o
wo ma yoruba (i'm yoruba) 🇳🇬
What dialect is this?
General: yorùbá ni mí (I am Yoruba)
@@noobhunter2986
i was born in the united states to a father from the abuja area, but he spent a huge part of his childhood near the border with benin.
@@sulaimaanahmad oh, I see, benin have a slightly different tongue to my place Oyo, but despite that we can still communicate
@@noobhunter2986
i see brother.
My guy said God bless Amala LMAOOOO
Yoruba people did not MIGRATE to Brazil during the colonial era. THEY WERE KIDNAPPED AND ENSLAVED!!! Please don't dishonor the Ancestors by not telling the full story.
Still a migration.
my brother were you referring to the atlantic slave trade as a migration?
👍
You also did not know the Yoruba are the true Jews as described in the Holy Bible, they are a mixture of Judah, Manasseh, Dan, and Ephraim!.. of the 12 tribes of Jacob scattered to the four corners of the world
And you must don't know that there is no proof for this book you are talking about
@@BOLBify can you please clarify I don’t understand what you are trying to say
I am sorry, you are free to believe anything you want brother. Sometimes I get triggered by people saying things related to the bible. And in my opinion, everything the bible says is a myth; christianity is only one of many, many religions with even more stories.
@@BOLBify thanks for clarifying, the bible is a book of laws, statutes and commandments and testimonies, it is not a book for everybody, it is a book of laws specifically for a group of special people called the Israelites, it is not a religious book. I can see why some would call it mythical, however the contents of the book can only be understood by the people it belongs.
@@BOLBify I recommend you watch Hidden Hebrew series(all of them) by Benaya Israel. You will be able to see some hidden things with ancient sources. Also check out Dr. Ben Ephraim E1b1a where he shows it's an Israel haplogroup. I am not recommend these UA-camrs for religious guidance, but for strictly historical sources on Israel which I believe they are scholarly in their research. Go to God for religious guidance not man.
Yoruba ancient religion/so are celebrated in Brasil....
I speak yoroba
👀 yuraba women be looking good ngl..
Yoruba*, but thanks
i came here from tik tok🕺🏽
how lol
It crazy that the bible got me here.check behavior
I have 4 sets of twins in my family
i know a fact jallof rice was originally called wallof rice and btw fact number 3 was inappropriate for a kid like me
Sorry to say this. You need to do more research when you present this kind of topic. You claimed there are about 44 million Yorubas globally. Really? In fact, the number of people with yoruba heritage in Brazil alone is higher than 44 million. If you combine all those with Yoruba ancestry outside Nigeria with those at home, you will have a people close to 100 million. The population of people with Yoruba ancestry in Brazil is so large to the point that the Brazilian government is planning to include Yoruba language as part of the school curriculum.
Wickedness happens everywhere not just from a Nigerian people
Yoruba language sounds like Chinese to outsiders.
I like the gods and mythology
6 many countries practice yoruba faith
False! Our ancestors never killed twins.
Moimoi is Yoruba food???
Yes
In cuba the yoruba religion is too much similar to the nigerian than brazilian
YOUR FIGURE ON THE POPULATION OF THE YORUBA IS TOTALLY WRONG. FACTS. OVER 50 MILLION IN THE SOUTH MIDDLE BELT, SOUTH WEST, EDO, DELTA AND 200 MILLION WORLDWIDE. HOPE YOU CORRECT YOUR FIGURES.
My heritage is of yoruban decent
every generation a woman in my father's family has twins. My dad's sister has twins. His aunt had 3 sets of twins & i have twins myself. my dad also told me a story about 2 of our ancestors: 2 twin boys that were brought to Virginia to be sold as slaves. a white man only wanted 1 of the boys. the slave auctioneer beat them and tried to pull them apart but the boys would not let each other go. very strong brave and stubborn boys lol so the white man just bought them both. I wonder were they from the Yoruba tribe. i need to take DNA test.
do you know charles yemi farimoyo?!?!? he's my father and is also part of the yoruba i am one the twins his dutch wife gave birth to what is yoruba?
Wow, interesting story you had to share!
RayniDayze same here. My grandmother had twins but they died. My parents are cousins to twins though one of my mom’s twin cousin is dead. But it skipped our generation.
RayniDayze if you have that much twins in your family , and you migrated from Africa , I can bet you dollars to doughnuts you are Yoruba from a region called Igbo-Ora . In this city Igbo- Ora, every house hold have a minimum of at least 2 sets of twins . Please google it
@@tayoojo5643 where is Igbo Ora ? Oyo state? Because my grandma is a twin and she's from Oyo ,I have never been there though. Also my younger brother is a twin ,but we lost his Kehinde unfortunately
Yoruba don t kill twins
Yoruba population is about 105m according to CIA report
👍 ...and that's even a conservative estimate!
how can I lay hands on that report? I'm writing a paper about the Yorubas and I need solid proof for some of these claims. Thanks.
HEBREW is a YORUBA word HIABAOORE=HBR..One who lives beyond/ live his land beyond
Top facts this guy doesnt know
1. Yoruba is not a tribe..there is nothing like Yoruba tribe
2. Yoruba never killed twins
He never say yoruba did killed twin ..he said other tribe he was trying to be diplomatic by not mentioning name of tribe that kill twins find out yourself
@@bofloa It is the Igbo in eastern Nigeria that is known to kill twins and have cast system call "OSU" cast system
Good job. But you forget to mention Togo, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. They have a large presence of Yoruba scions. Also, you forget to mention Cuba whose Yoruba population is second only to Brazil. What about other countries in West Indies and South America? Very important, Yoruba people were stolen to Americas not during the colonization but during the Atlantic slave trade. Your research should inform us that Yoruba ethnic group is currently the largest population in Nigeria, not counting those in Kogi and adjoining states.
Young and brilliant, get money from the Yoruba Commission on Culture and visit all those countries as a researcher, with your camera and come back to the land flowing with milk and honey, then put your research work in a book form. You might be referred to as a sociologist, an ethnographer, an anthropologist or simply a cultural reporter, like those Oyinbo travelers of yester-years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful comments
You've got an amazing mindset brother. Africa needs more of your kind.
Agoo onile o.
Egwusi soup is IGBO
I am amazed at the world population of Yoruba people. We should have our own country. 🤔 Joking 😆
What of yourba and voodoo.
Victoria Harry Voodoo comes from the Congo.
Stanley Dougé The slaves that went to Haiti came from the Congo, Togo & Benin. Voodoo I’ve always been taught by elders comes from the Congo. Now could Haitians have combined the Congo’s Voodoo with the religion of Togo & Benin, absolutely.
Doris Corveas The more you dig into the African culture the more questions you find
@@doriscorveas236 u must like OUR CULTURE
it is not yoruba, it is from Fon and Ewe people of Dahomey/Togo region. 'Vodun' for Fon/Ewe is the parallel/equivalent to 'Òrìṣà' in Yoruba
Yorubas are not a "tribe" and the Yoruba people never killed twins, Igbos did, two very different ethnic groups. Get your facts right! Yorubas have always venerated twins.
It is second most powerful religion only second to vodum .
Actually Vudun/Voodoo is Yoruba spirituality that was practiced by Yorubas who were taken as slaves and they had to hide their religion within the religion of their task masters.
Ancient TORAH/BIBLE was written in Ancient YORUBA language =PALEO HEBREW...
If you can lead me to the source of this knowledge I'd be grateful. That is, if it isn't fiction. Thanks
@@jonralph8843 it's fiction. Yoruba originated Odu Ifa NOT Torah or Bible
@@proverbalizer but are you aware that Odu Ifa might be the same as the Urim and Thummim that Abraham used in the Bible for divination? Maybe we Yorubas are the ancient Hebrews.
@@jonralph8843 hmmm, but which verse of Odu Ifa is chanted in Ancient Hebrew language?
@@proverbalizer Don't get me wrong ok, I'm not saying that I know for sure. I am just speculating "what if". Concerning your question, the truth is we really don't know the language of the ancient Hebrews. What if it was much closer to what the Yorubas speak today? What I'm trying to do here is to awaken our minds to possibilities. I might be wrong, which is ok. But what if there's some truth to what I'm saying.
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twins thanks to osun
Are you a practicing Yoruba? Did I say that correctly? A Cuban friend introduced me to the Latin connection to the religious aspect years ago. I just thought Africans and some French Caribbeans(counting practitioners of Vodou and Voodoo respectively) even knew Chango, Ogun(Ogu) and (E)Legba (Papa Legba)
mrsoready am Cuban and I practice the religión since I was little of course we know all the orisas we been with this religión more then 600 years already
@@alfredoalonso673 How does one go about finding out information about the religion in the states?
mrsoready Miami
Alfredo alonso “Ibeyis” the twins.
Cut and dry information everywhere, Omo Oodua (referred to as yoruba) never killed twins rather celebrate them from time immemorial. It is creation of country called nigeria by the British that brought about lumping of history or culture of other ethnicities of the far south and north who killing of twins is found in their culture to school curriculum teaching all nigerian pupils. Pls do due diligence before speaking about yoruba society.
My friend it's best you research well before putting your material out there. The Yoruba always celebrated twin birth, it was in the East that they killed twins. Please get the shit right....
Shurt up that word.the Jewish has the highest please make your research very well.
Igbo boy haaa hmmm
how can Yoruba tribe is more than hausa people in Africa.
The Hausa have mixed up with Fulani and other tribes from Niger republic, Chad republic, and Cameroon republic and therefore can not be said to be the majority.
Top facts this guy doesnt know
1. Yoruba is not a tribe..there is nothing like Yoruba tribe
2. Yoruba never killed twins
They actually did. It was shown as bad luck some lady from england brought that to Africa and many other cultures in Africa believed/ believe that to this day
@@victoriaajayi634 No, Igbo people killed their twins, not Yoruba. There are Yoruba Orishas called Ibeji, they are twins. Yorubas have always viewed twins as magical even. The death of a twin in Yorubaland has always been an indication of bad fortune. A wooden twin would even be carved in their honour.
Victoria Ajayi Mary slessor the English stop killing of twins in Calabar not in Yoruba land. Yoruba adore twins and worship them and as a Yoruba urself u should know this history. So if foreign person ask u will say Yoruba kill twins which is not true
Victoria Ajayi stop saying what you don’t know, yorubas made totems for twins and idolized twins, we saw them as good omen and NEVER killed twins.
Igbos and Calabar people were notorious for killing twins because they saw them to represent good and evil respectively but because they don’t know which one is the evil one, they decide to kill both to avert the presumed evil.
Victoria Ajayi Calabar is not the same as Yoruba