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Polygamy has a longstanding history within traditional Yoruba culture. As seen in a Yoruba framework, marriage is first and foremost a union between families with the goal of childbearing rather than a romantic contract between two individuals. [34] Thus, sexual pleasure and love between the parties involved are not the objects of marriage.
Yoruba culture consists of cultural philosophy, religion and folktales. They are embodied in Ifa divination, and are known as the tripartite Book of Enlightenment in Yorubaland and in its diaspora. Yoruba cultural thought is a witness of two epochs. The first epoch is a history of cosmogony and cosmology.
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Some towns and cities of the Yoruba people are collectively considered to be clans due to similarities in their origins and cultures. Several other cities, though non-Yoruba, have histories of being influenced by the Yoruba. These cities are Warri, Benin City, Okene, and Auchi. [8] The Yoruba diaspora has two main groupings. The first one is ...
Yoruba may refer to: Yoruba people, an ethnic group of West Africa; Yoruba language, a West African language of the Volta–Niger language family; Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language; Yoruba religion, West African religion; Yorubaland, the region occupied by the Yoruba people; Yoruba, a genus of ground spiders
Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire) is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa.It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria, Togo and Benin, and covers a total land area of 142,114 km 2 (54,871 sq mi).
A symbol of the Yoruba religion (Isese) with labels Yoruba divination board Opon Ifá. According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. [2] Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the ...
Two of the most common destiny names among the Yoruba are Táíwò (or Táyé) and Kẹ́hìndé, which are given primarily to twins. It is believed that the first of the twins is Táíwò (or Táyé), "tọ́-ayé-wò" meaning, ( One who tastes the world ) whose intention in coming out first is to perceive whether or not the environment that ...