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The Omoluwabi concept is an adjectival Yoruba phrase, which has the words - "Omo + ti + Olu-iwa + bi" as its components. Literally translated and taken separately, omo means 'child', ti means 'that or which', Olu-iwa meaning the chief or master of Iwa (character), bi means 'born'. When combined, Omoluabi translates as "the child begotten by the ...
Omodiagbe is a combination of three different words in the Esan dialect (language). The three words are: “ Omo” - meaning “child” “ dia” - meaning “to straighten” “ Ogbe” - meaning “clan” or “family” The name Omodiagbe reflects the importance of children in societies and families.
There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca, spoken by over 60 million people.
South-West Nigeria Fẹ́mi audio ⓘ is a common Nigerian given unisex name of Yoruba origin which means "love Me". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Femi is most commonly a diminutive form of " Olufemi " (or Olúfẹ́mi) which means The Lord loves me ,("Olú" means Lord, Leader, or the "Prominent one," in the Yoruba language).
Omoba, or Oba, derived from the Yoruba language word meaning king, is a pre-nominal honorific used by kings in the Yoruba Kingdom and later adopted by kings in Benin Kingdom. Omoba may also refer to: Omoba, Abia, a town in Isiala Ngwa South, Abia State, Nigeria; D'Prince (born 1986), or Omoba, Nigerian singer
Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà (English: Yoruba National Movement) is a Nigerian political organisation established in 1945 by Yoruba leaders in London. Its initial purpose was to unite the Yoruba people in a manner similar to the tenets of the Ibibio State Union and the Igbo Federal Union. The organization grew in popularity from 1948 to 1951.
Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...
The term "Awo", meaning "secret" is a gender-neutral title for an initiated priest of Orunmila. The debate surrounding gender is a result of diversity in the history of Ifá in various locations. The debate surrounding gender is a result of diversity in the history of Ifá in various locations.