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Yoruba

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Yo·ru·ba  (yôr-b, yr-bä)
n. pl. Yoruba or Yo·ru·bas
1. A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwest Nigeria.
2. The Benue-Congo language of this people.
Yoru·ban adj.
Yoruba [ˈjɒrʊbə]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -bas, -ba a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the coastal regions of SW Nigeria: noted for their former city states and complex material culture, particularly as evidenced in their music, art, and sculpture
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family
Yoruban  adj
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Noun1.Yoruba - a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria
Nigerian - a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
2.Yoruba - a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria
Aku
Kwa - a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
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SOCIAL CHANGE AND CRISIS OF NAME IDENTITY IN YORUBA RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY Introduction.
SOCIAL CHANGE AND CRISIS OF NAME IDENTITY IN YORUBA RELIGIOUS ... by DR J.K.AYANTAYO / Relationships community
In Nigeria's southwest, there is a well-known Yoruba proverb that also emphasizes worldly being as perpetual flux, transforming a generalizing observation into a culture-specific metaphor: Aye l'oja, orun nile.
Coming together and falling apart: something about brooms and Nigeria by Doris, David T. / African Arts
From the devotion of people's belief in the Virgen de Guadalupe, to the West African Yoruba religion's foundation in a divination system called "orishas", to the Sufi sect of Islam's worship of God through musical and textual pieces of blissful devotion, Religion as Art seeks to compare and contrast cultural practices in search of a better understanding of the human regard for physical embodiments and representations of religious faith.
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