Yoruba history as we know it today is contaminated history. The Yoruba did not write. They used interpreters to tell their story to Europeans who then wrote them down in English. Yoruba history prior to the Crowther treatise (1850) was…
Isese has been claimed as the name of the ancient traditional Yoruba religion, centred around the worship of Olodumare (Supreme Creator) and a motley of associated deities and divine forces including Ifa. The origin of the word Isese is obscure.…
The Orisa is an enigma; what it is, is not entirely clear. AB Ellis wrote in his 1894 book that the Yoruba reserved the word ‘Orisa’ not only for the superhuman being or god, but also for sacred images and…
The world did not know much about the Yoruba story until the tail end of the Transatlantic Slavery in the 1800s. What the mostly Christian writers then wrote have been regurgitated ad nauseam without much critique. The fact is the…
The oldest human DNA was found in the Yoruba. It is irrational to call it ‘ghost’ DNA when the Denisovan DNA was named after Denisova Cave (Siberia) and Neanderthal DNA was named after Neander Valley (Germany). The so-called ‘ghost’ DNA…
When a European made a discovery, they usually named it after him. But when a Yoruba made a discovery, they usually claim it was a divine gift, an Orisa from the Supreme Being, apparently nothing to do with human ingenuity…
Sango is not a myth. He was a living, breathing human being. He was a married man. He may even have been one of the earliest Alaafin of Oyo. His name – ‘San’ meaning ‘vividly’ and ‘go’ meaning ’to strike’…
The oldest human DNA was found in the Yoruba. It is irrational to call it ‘ghost’ DNA when the Denisovan DNA was named after Denisova Cave (Siberia) and Neanderthal DNA was named after Neander Valley (Germany). The so-called ‘ghost’ DNA…
Doctors from certain backgrounds are far less likely to be offered specialist training places in the UK than white candidates, new data suggest. But exactly how much of a gap black and Asian doctors face varies hugely across different specialties,…
Insecurity has plagued Nigeria unrelentingly since the 1980s. Indeed, it was the excuse Buhari gave for his 1983 coup. YPUK says successive governments since have had no success combatting it due to lack of a coherent policy. Nigerians face 2…
