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Yoruba given names (1 C, 234 P) Pages in category "Yoruba names" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. ... This page was last edited on 3 ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Nigerian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 212 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It featured names from the Sabe group of Yoruba speakers in the country. [15] The blog post, written by Dr. Moufoutaou Adjeran, a sociolinguistics lecturer at Abomey-Calavi University (Republic of Benin), was the first indication of the presence of Yoruba names from Benin Republic in the Yoruba Name Dictionary project, curated by Laila le Guen.
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.
Abolarinwa(abáọlárìnwá ⓘ) is a Nigerian surname of Yoruba origin meaning "One who walks with wealth" The name is derived from “a” (one who), “bá” (together with), “ọlá” (wealth or nobility), “rìn” (walk), and "wá" (come, arrive) It is morphologically structured as "Abọ́lárìnwá." Variants include ...
Akinwunmi Isola (1939-2018), Nigerian playwright, novelist, actor, dramatist, culture activist and scholar; Bakare Gbadamosi (b. 1930), Yoruba poet, anthropologist and short story writer from Nigeria; Daniel O. Fagunwa (1903-1963), Nigerian Yoruba author who pioneered the Yoruba language novel; Duro Ladipo (1926-1978), Yoruba dramatist; Isaac ...
In his work, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains c.1863, the English ethnologist Richard F. Burton reports of a Yoruba account in 1861, noting that the name "Yoruba" derives from Ori Obba, i.e. -The Head King. [44] It was applied ex-situ originally in reference to the Yoruba sociolinguistic group as a whole.