The meeting focused on a presentation by Baasegun about the Yoruba base-20 counting system, its rules, and its advantages over the decimal system, followed by a wide-ranging discussion on Yoruba language, vocabulary, and the need for standardization and research into…
This meeting focused on discussing the Yoruba calendar and cultural history, with Baasegun presenting a detailed analysis of how the Yoruba calendar described in historical texts was likely plagiarized from ancient Greek calendar systems rather than being original to Yoruba…
The latest output from the British Royal Family apparently confirming the ‘private’ status of the Duke (Harry) and Duchess (Meghan) of Sussex revealed how rudderless the British monarchy has become. King Charles and Prince Williams confirmed that the monarchy simply…
The meeting focused on the Yoruba cultural perspective, its historical achievements, and the current challenges facing Yoruba society within Nigeria. Baasegun presented a detailed analysis of the traditional Yoruba system, highlighting its guarantees of full employment, participatory democracy, free compulsory…
The racism of the British Royal Family is not a new thing. Elisabeth I part-funded slave expeditions carried out in West Africa by John Hawkins (1562, 1564 and 1567). She donated ‘The Jesus of Lubeck’, a 700-ton vessel purchased by…
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…
