Oduduwa’s descendants are called “Yoruba” because of Ajayi Crowther

One of the most fascinating and largely unknown aspects of Nigerian history is Ajayi Crowther's monumental role in shaping the spiritual, cultural and political lives of some of the peoples that would eventually come to make up the nation. This documentary explores the beginnings of how the modern history of the Yoruba people was fundamentally shaped by Christian missions, with Ajayi Crowther as the tip of the spear.
J. F. Ade Ajayi's "How Yoruba was reduced to writing" and J. D. Y. Peel's, "Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba," were particularly helpful in my research for this documentary.
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[@NCHSeries]

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[@tomideolukuade]

This is both scholarly and historically enriching. Thank you for outing these little known shreds of foundational history.

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you for your kind words

[@olaniyanmichael640]

I love this sincerely. Long lived Yoruba land.

[@kingtolaamos-davidkingtola979]

Wow...this is really some significant research NCHS. Well done to the entire team...this is really great work. This just shows how much impact as a church we should be making in shaping society and culture

[@sokshakshikse6583]

Great work. Most educative to me as a North Central Nigerian who grew up with Yoruba (Ogbomosho) neighbours in Jos. Blessings.

[@spartacusnobu3191]

This is a fantastic rendition of the history of the western peoples of Nigeria and beyond. Thanks.

[@EEbikake]

Bishop Crowther stands as one of the most influential figures in Yoruba and Nigerian history. Through his pioneering translation of the Bible, he played a pivotal role in liberating Africa from idolatry, establishing the continent as a hub for global missionary work. His life exemplifies how humble beginnings and personal tragedy can be transformed into profound victory through faith. Crowther's contributions continue to inspire and underscore the transformative power of dedication and divine purpose.

[@anstaranstar]

But led to.thr colonization of THE MIND

[@yonni6349]

Stop talking nonsense he sold his people to a bigger idolatry called christianity, a satanic religion of the the barbarians leading to the most inhuman atrocities of human history(slavery). Christianity is the yoke holding down black people from progressing. Repent from it.

[@abimbolaoshin1898]

All I can say is THANK YOU SO MUCH! Mandatory viewing for my children. God bless you!

[@masehoart7569]

This was an excellent video; Content, storytelling, selected images & editing. 🌟Even the background music was just the right volume (many content creators choose overtly dramatic music or it’s too loud). Though, I am neither Nigerian nor Yoruba - this is the most detailed example how Europeans decided to misname African people: KhoiSan, Nguni, Kuba, Dinka, Shilluk, etc. - the list is long. Crowther is also the classical example of kidnapped & traumatised African child/youth, ideologically indoctrinated, devoted Christian, hardworking assistant to European endeavours but then dumped when he dared to criticise their hypocrisy & greed. Sad

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you for your kind words about the quality of the video.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Well, you're just stating the reason why Africa chose independence, in the second half of ur statement.

[@thewellsmedia]

Thank you for this extensive work and information.

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you very much for the kind words.

[@harrisoniyere1966]

It so intriguing that I keep pausing the video to read the extracts.

[@shodapad07]

Thank you for the welldone and thought-out historical work. God bless!

[@TransTalesEntertainment]

Eku People - Coming from the common greeting used for everything by the Youruba people such as Eku-ile (greeting someone you meet at home), Eku-abo (welcome), Eku-Ijoko(greeting someone sitting), Eku-Ise(greeting someone that is working)... and so on. I can imagine that the first encounters of missionaries and other explorers or neighbors would have elicited the greeting Eku - followed by something... As a matter of fact, first encounters with foreigners without any translations between them would have gotten the foreigner hearing the word Eku continuously. So I can imagine the label being used to describe the people as the Eku people and probably not Aku.

[@misidee]

Thank you for further clarifying this

[@TransTalesEntertainment]

@@misidee not really clarifying as a fact. Just a theory

[@abidogunmodupe8212]

😊😊😊

[@MoyoO-ju7yc]

Some people greet by saying “a kú ìjókó” “a ku aro” etc. That form might have been more common among recaptives in Sierra Leone.

[@pobembe1958]

There's Difference between "Aku" and "Eku" to a native Yoruba speaker. "Aku" Would be a pluralized first person term referring to the speaker's group, the "A" conveying the sense of We (English). "Eku" is second person and is spoken in reference to someone you are about to engage or are engaging. The meaning of the word is a bit hard to define in English but is completely natural to a Yoruba. Ku conveys a present continuous doing or being in effect the verb "to be" in all it's tenses. Eku used by itself is incomplete it is usually followed by a noun that expresses the state or condition of the recipient. For Example Eku Osan (Osan meaning Afternoon), is a ready to use greeting expressing Goodwill to someone you are encountering in the Afternoon. It's funny that Yorubas almost got named by a word commonly used for multipurpose friendly greetings.

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[@lifetreeventures8767]

Watching this at 2a.m in Obudu Mountain Resort and loving it! All i can say is wow! Good job, dear KZbinr. Keep it up 👍Just won yourself another subscription

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you so much

[@consortiumexpert]

This is awesome. Thank you. GOD bless you, A dara fun yin l'ruko JESU.

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@stephenalake]

Great job here. Please keep it up!

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you very much!

[@ThomasSowellTV]

Keep it up.

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you very very much. Deeply appreciated!

[@abidogunmodupe8212]

This sweetening my soul, please I need more of our history. Ive subscribed, My group will see this. Thanks.

[@iuniversol]

Im so glad for this. Ive asked thos question of my family what does "Yoruba" mean? The fact that nobody new what it meant means its not our word.

[@dosbambi]

I'm glad Ajayi Crowther's idea won...as a son of the soil, he deserves the right to give the name more than the foreigners.

[@akinwumiakindahunsi7254]

Except for the fact that he did not form the name, he only modified the Hausa's chosen word for descendants of Odùduwà. Hardly original!

[@ikengaspirit3063]

​@@akinwumiakindahunsi7254 no, it is a Yoruba word. It is the name of the Northern Yoruba "Yagba" people. The Nupe and Ibaariba referred to all Yoruba using the name of the Yagba. This name was then translated into Hausa and other Sudanic languages as "Yariba". So now, variations of the word "Yagba" is what the Yoruba were know as. However to the Yoruba themselves that word could also refer to a specific Yoruba group, so Crowther chose a variation of that word, already popular and that won't be mistaken for the Yagba so that no confusion would arise due to its use.

[@dosbambi]

@@akinwumiakindahunsi7254 what's important for me is that, it was a Yoruba man that did it. The Hausa word must have come from a Yoruba word or lifestyle

[@MrMathoks]

​@@akinwumiakindahunsi7254 no proof of that whatsoever

[@mebude]

How did Raban, Clappeton and Crowder Ajayi arrived at the word - Awon eYan Oba (Ife) = Awon eyan OYO = YO-ru-ba = THE People with a central King. ''say's the first books I once read because they in the North and the Europeans could not pronouce it well. Eku/Aku is more descriptive from greetings/salutation rather than been descriptive to their royal culture source as I ealier mentioned. As you can see even Ijebu was spelt Idsebu

[@JosephSuberu]

Brilliant.... Well researched

[@bolajiutube]

Kudos for this deep revelation of a documentary. While not surprising, it is unsettling that Papa Ajayi Crowther opted over "Akú" for "Yoruba" - a word of possibly derogatory non-indigenous origin. Just mind-numbing the irrelevance to which the conservative mindset of the non-African religion community of Africans (especially Christians) relegates any obligation to nationalism resulting in generational indignity. And it goes on steroids with the nerve of American conservatives’ Project 2025.

[@rotimikayode1072]

Thank you for this information.👍

[@moyinoluwaadelakun407]

Absolutely amazing 🎉 thank you

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you.

[@anthonyalao7635]

Interesting piece The Yorubas were more or less estranged brothers who shared a common ancestor, Oduduwa. They spoke different dialects of a common Language which had no name and referred to themselves more by location than anyother thing. Research is still on the origin of the Yoruba Language as there is the "Ikedu" tradition in Ifè which speaks of pre Oduduwa Ifè.

[@Topdigitc]

Exactly! Not all the sub ethnic people in the area now known as Yorubaland are descendants of Oduduwa, the Ilaje people for instance.

[@DaEnigma72]

Great work. Am educated. Thank you

[@onitimilehin7560]

I just read the description of this channel. Wow! So you're the writer of "A heritage of faith: A history of Christianity in Nigeria". I bought it on Okada books app last year, I've read 4-5 chapters before Okada books closed down business. It was painful because I was already immersed in the book and intrigued. Please, how can I get a hard copy? I commend your efforts, may God continually strengthen you.

[@onitimilehin7560]

Let me add that I attempted to buy the book on Amazon, but couldn't make payment.

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you for the kind words. So sorry to hear about the Okada Books issue. We are out of stock presently. Will announce on the channel when they become available again. Hopefully soon. Thank you.

[@salientabe1105]

@@onitimilehin7560what is the name of the book?

[@misidee]

Hah! Eku-Eka! (A variation of “Aku!”) was indeed a salutation among people of Osun State when I was growing up

[@iwindara]

The archeologist Akin Ogundiran in his book, "The Yorùbá: A New History," wrote that the use of the name Yorùbá to refer to the many kingdoms is not of the Hausa. Instead, it was the result of comtact with the Yàgbà in present-day Kọgí State by the Nupe ethnic group and trade with the Malian empire.

[@Safa-Nigeria]

NUPE were a BIG part of the Oyo Kingdom. The masquerade, priests were all Nupes.

[@Ranking007-tq9ng]

The name Yoruba or Yariba or yaruba were all existing before we adopted the name, they were ancient Yemenis tribe who established the first Yoruba dynasty in 14th century, the Fulani scholar that refers to us as Yariba did so because he was convinced that we are from this Yemen tribe due to our Middle East history

[@iwindara]

@@Ranking007-tq9ng😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@seyi42k]

This is superb. I have shared it in my contact

[@krisdavidas9890]

Interesting!

[@ChrisKross247]

Great video!!

[@Criticalcrusade]

These comments are making me go raaaa…. How are you watching this as a Yoruba person and you feel good and uplifted?? This is clearly the history of how you were stripped of your real identity and the crooks that were responsible for it.. can we ever wake up?

[@kayoarawo6116]

The Yoruba culture is still the richest by History and its beautiful artefacts in Africa, South and North America, West Indies, and the whole world at large.Rivalling the Romans and Greeks Your complaints are irrelivant and for dull.ards

[@kayoarawo6116]

btw You sound like one of those envious people who needs to find a reason to criticise a vibrant culture in order to justify your hate.Yorubas don't care about your opinions because names can be nicknames too which in this case cuts both ways

[@nauticdixons]

@Criticalcrusade, the responses blew my mind as well. It's like.... it depends on the time, place, and context and you would have different reactions. I remember David Hundeyin sharing this exact history during the last election to show that the Yorubas were being pawned for political gains by the north and were not exhibiting their "most educated region" and "most hospitable people" status they used to be known for. They literally chewed him up and spat him out and took him out of the Yoruba book of life. I'm not sure what this youtuber's agenda is (if he has one), but my guts tell me he's trying to share that same message as David without rocking the (political) boat.

[@radiantty1402]

What are you saying? nobody was stripped of anything. do your research and listen again.

[@Ranking007-tq9ng]

There is no identity that was taken away, all identities of people under the umbrella term Yoruba remains intact today. what was created was an umbrella identity which was never there, everyone goes by their individual identity and no umbrella identity and Yoruba only serves as umbrella identity

[@Spenzkevlar]

Very enjoyable ❤

[@olubukolafemi-ajala1702]

Welldone

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you

[@e.a.4269]

From this narration, there is no evidence that the word Yoruba originated from the Hausas. The Oyo might have referred to themselves as Yoruba, but the Hausa bastardised it like they did to some Yoruba words they use like alede (elede).

[@user-oz8ss4kt5v]

I think Yoruba sounds more sweet than Aku..Hence, let's leave it like that.

[@nduodiaka-ph9sl]

The hausas used to use the word yariba to refer to unserious people not to be trusted. Later changed to yoruba.

[@gabrielonibudo5566]

@@nduodiaka-ph9slthe name Yoruba is older than that

[@nduodiaka-ph9sl]

@gabrielonibudo5566 the hausas said so.

[@taiwoolatunji629]

I appreciate the scholarliness of this work! Evidence is presented for every definite claim. Great! However, I think you should do more work on why the Hausas were calling the people by so-called "Yariba". Afterall, there is an argument that it was a corruption of a word that was being used by the people. Personally, I agree with Sigmund that the people should have been generally called AKÚ, instead of YORÙBÁ. Now, it is what it is. Meanwhile, kudos to Ajayi for his efforts and, perhaps, unexpected "victory."

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you for your kind words. As stated in the documentary, the reason why the Hausas referred to them by this name is now lost to history.

[@Chilaxme]

So many take away. Most African tribes didn't have the time to band together under a common leadership or kingdom prior to colonialism. Hence they didn't always have or agree to a common name. Yet they are descendant of a common ancestry. Igbos in various parts of the south also fall under this category. Ijaws too and Ibibio... Hence the identity issues. I am glad the Yoruba nation solved this issue long ago, doesn't really matter who originally owned the name.

[@emmanuela.bayowa765]

Quite insightful, we have the Yorubas, not the Akus😃

[@NCHSeries]

Thank you.😃

[@alphabet798]

This simply means that Yoruba or Yariba was put together just the way Nigeria was put together. The people were not consulted, it was an imposition.

[@abidogunmodupe8212]

But none complained, it shows that's how God wants it, and we're happy with it because we never disowned each other.

[@alphabet798]

@@abidogunmodupe8212 Who told you non complained? The Egbas, the Ijebus and some other communities rejected it outrightly. But the British went ahead to implement it anyway.

[@themixe3393]

Probably for the best

[@GrandEmporer]

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

[@masehoart7569]

Yes, the most legendary quote by the late bishop Desmond Tutu. He had a wonderful sense of humour

[@flemickolowu7524]

Yes, brother. When our ancestors pray, by pouring libation, they do not close their eyes. There is transparency. Must we close our eyes when prayers are to rendered? Should a ' God incarnate close his eyes because somebody is calling the name of a foreign god?

[@k4kultimediasolution]

why are these documents were not been taught in school and why people still having confusion if it was been taught in school....can we have website where we can have access to it for more discusion.

[@danielaloba001]

Excellent job! Case closed. Literatures revealed the long standing debates of where that name came from. At least it is now called with our phonetic Yo-ru-ba while the different lands of odua know which groups they belong to be it Egbas, Oyos, Ijeshas, Ijebus ati bẹbẹ lọ😅.

[@2LETLIVE]

Yoruba was a slur given to you by the Hausa. Stop making stuff up.

[@danielaloba001]

@@2LETLIVE Slur or no slur! What,where and who do you belong to so that I can call you by your father's name?

[@danielaloba001]

In all of that beautiful presentation you can only deduced and emphasized the racial slur given to set of people by their neighbors. Well, we are called by so many names but then yoruba as a name is a swag of a word in and of itself.

[@2LETLIVE]

@danielaloba001 I'm Awori, and we did not descend from Oduduwa. Ijebus are not descendants of Oduduwa. The Egbas are not descendants of Oduduwa either. Which of the Yorubas descended from out of space with your fabricated Oduduwa? It is high time for people like you to speak out and speak the truth. The Yorubas did not descend from a single man who parachuted to Ife. The Ooni of Ife is not an Oba. In fact, the word Oba is foreign to Yoruba. The Yoruba scholars who fabricated this single man named Oduduwa, who came down from heaven with all his entourage to Ife, is a big lie.

[@danielaloba001]

@@2LETLIVE it's obvious that you deviate from the context which is the name "Yoruba"and how it was established knowing that it is less than 200 years in print and in use. As for one man came down from heaven and found a race of people according to Yoruba cosmology,pls kindly tell me what the two popular holy books in west African derived the cosmology from? Were there no several verses stated "let us now go down and confound their languages on the earth" gods or angel came from above to the surface here..these stories are not exclusive to the Yorubas alone but many mighty civilizations from Oriental to Western world as well as Europa. Again tell me where did they go wrong given humanity is still searching how they came to be?

[@BoskiM]

Please do Ibibio and Efik dialect

[@NCHSeries]

😃

[@ailo14]

Great insights. Do we know if the word Yarriba (for the hausas) had a particular meaning?

[@babasolaadewumi3052]

No it doesn't. Grab a Hausa or Fulani dictionary. The no Yo or Ya in there. The name closest to Yarba or Yoruba is Yaro. Which means boy.

[@ailo14]

@@babasolaadewumi3052 thx for the reply. Interesting - "boy"

[@misidee]

@@babasolaadewumi3052imagine and there are many articles pulled up from google saying “yariba” means deceitful, cunning or usurper

[@Ade-uw2jb]

They have name, the name is kuotu ojire. It wasn't Hausa named Oyo Yoruba. The name came out when Omo Kuotu Ojire traded with Arab. Only Yoruba people called Arab Larubawa while Arab called them Yarubawa. Please, we have a gazette on this. Please don't distort our history. Thanks

[@Ay11Yrs]

I wonder too,if not because of the contraption system they impose on the Yoruba race for being part of Nigeria today ,the same western benefits, each region in Yoruba territory knows their history,a neighbor can't just name you what you didn't name yourself, despite Ile ife ,Ilesha and other regions in the kingdom have been existing thousands of years, before the existence of oduduwa,we have a long way to go

[@flemickolowu7524]

That's the point. There were people in Ile-Ife before the arrival of Oduduwa. Why then should the'kaaro,oojire' people ie the so called' Yoruba' be regarded as descendants of Oduduwa. Let us have a true picture of everything devoid of sentiments.

[@traykunable]

Hausa and Arabic are from the same language family; the Afro Asiatic family. As a result there are shared words and ultimately it doesn't matter that the Hausa may have gotten it from Arabs as they are distant cousins (linguistically speaking). Also due to geography the Yoruba are more likely to have interactions with the Hausa than Arabs as the southernmost Arabs are found in Chad and Bornu state, the Shuwa Arabs, whom are very far from what is Yoruba land today.

[@bolufakayode5528]

@@traykunableI think the Oduduwa tribe are actually Arabians. Remember all of Africa and what they call the Middle East which is North East Africa. The natives were and still are black Africans. Africans come is different shades and phenotypes but are what we call black people. Orignal Arabs are Africans but through slaving mixed with Central Asians and Caucasian slaves. Though throughout all the Arabic countries there are orignal black men who have been living there for thousands of years. Now also Oduduwa evidence leads out of Mecca or Arabia. Something not unique to other northwest Africans. Before Oduduwa left Arabia where exactly did his tribe come from could be Yemen or all over the Arabian desert. When Oduduwa made his passage into Yoruba lands there were already natives. So yes there are orignal Yoruba people from the lands and foreigners from Arabia. This is why the Oduduwa tribe are Arabs by definition. The Arabic language and Yoruba have numerous similarities and cognates. Many Arabian tribes for centuries even before Mohammed left Arabia into Africa. Into all of North-West Africa. That’s where the name Yarab, Y’araba, Yariba, Yarub, Yaruba come from highlighting the Arabic influence. Also for the language of Arabic the language is not mutual comprehensive by all Arabs. Hundreds of different dialects. A man from Lebanon can not understand a man who speaks Arabic in Mauritania. An Egyptian can not understand a man who speaks Arabic in Chad. Though it’s all Arabic. This is how Yoruba fits this definition. It’s Arabic but that does not mean it’s mutual understanding by all Arabs. Hausa as you mention is an Arabic language, as Kanuri, Mande, Fulani, and many other languages throughout Niger, Mali, Morocco, Algeria, Nigeria, Yemen, Eritrea Ethiopia etc…. Just different dialects which makes them incomprehensible. Yoruba is a rich and very intelligent. When the Alafin histories were saying that Oduduwa came from Mecca. They were not stupid or naive of who they were. Also the Alafin as his historians were proud Ifa followers and could care less for Islam at the time. Arab does not equate Islam. Arabia during that time and Northen Africa was not 100 percent Islamic as we view it now. Many traditional beliefs were being practice with Islam under the fold. Crowther dispute this heavily since he had become christianized. Yet this is not an unusual situation since many other Africans in North West Africa had migrated from Arabia. Arabia is African land originally based on truthful evidence (another topic) as for the originals who lived in Yorubaland before Oduduwa. They took the name Yoruba. The history of the originals is very ancient….. a more difficult scope to analyze but not impossible.

[@Ade-uw2jb]

@traykunable Don't make a mistake. We have been talking about more than 2000yrs, not recently at all. I don't know whether I said Herotodus, the Greek geographer, talked about ile Ife. So I am not talking about now. Because we don't really know what is going on, we thought our life began when coloniser came to Africa. Even Portuguese people were coming long time ago be4 coloniser. Even we had what they called osupagio, where people all over the world came to see. Ife was not a small place, if I tell you that Borno origin originated from Yoruba, you will be surprised.

[@Ay11Yrs]

I appreciate your efforts concerning the history you narrated, but Each region in Yoruba territory knows their history, saying Yoruba was named by Hausa is totally incorrect , Yoruba itself have a meaning in the old Yoruba astrology and it spiritual that align with, Yoruba calling today derived from kingdoms everyone has it own findings and research,A neighbor can't just name you what you didn't name yourself, despite Ile ife ,Ilesha and other regions in the kingdoms have been existing thousands of years, before the existence of oduduwa, facts that we have common root and language and dialect that connected us together, oduduwa was a popular king in Yoruba history, it doesn't mean every kingdom in Yoruba was oduduwa descendant ,we have a long way to go.

[@Ay11Yrs]

Ajayi crowther was used by western, for their own benefits, even what ajayi crowther translate today was used to weaponize against Yoruba history culture, doesn't align with our true identity Quotes ,"I have travelled across the length and breadth of Africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Africans think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their selfesteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation". Lord Macaulay's Address to the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835

[@Jesusventures]

Oh mu goodness This is a great awakening for me There are a lot of my land that is been revealed here o Most slaves of that time must have been 70% Yoruba Check around the world, Yorubas are dominant Have you seen Britain recently giving much attention to even our cultural heritage of dressings and cuisines?

[@variole9911]

Thé publisher must have décide thé name?

[@waleojo9496]

Ajayi crowther was not the reason why we're called Yoruba. Please a thorough research before embarking on any story. The Portuguese traders were referring to us as Yoruba, Anago, and lukumi in one of their books written in 1640's . Crowther could not have in any way. Thanks.

[@galleon8129]

Please give us reference to your sources

[@ikengaspirit3063]

He could still be the reason why Yoruba was the name chosen and not say, Lukumi as you mentioned.

[@EbunoluwaFacts]

One thing is clear, the name Yoruba is derived from the name Oyo which is the most significant empire among our various Oduduwa affiliated kingdoms of that era. We don't need to be worried or ashamed about this because even the name England was derived from one of the most prominent kingdoms called "Angles" in ancient Britain. The other tribes included the Jutes , Saxons and the Normans who came later. Don't let any anti-Yoruba individual tell you that it was derived from a derogatory Hausa word - meaning untrustworthy. They don't want us to be proud of our rich heritage. Yoruba and Hausa people have interacted for many years before the colonial era through trade and religion . Thus some of their people understood each others language . Some Yoruba still speak Hausa till data and vice-versa. Hence if the name Yoruba is a derogatory Hausa word, those that understood the Hausa language would have exposed and rejected it outrightly as an insulting word. We know some anti-Yoruba people who are recently spinning this misinformation and conspiracy theory about our noble name.

[@adachimgozirim6186]

After Benin go say na Empire, no be Kingdom of Benin i see for the map😂

[@benatari1]

The term YORUBA is the Hausa corruption of the term YOBA, sometimes spelt YEBA or YABA, one of the indigenous names of Old OYO. The Hausa tongue corrupted it to YORIBA, YARIBA and YORUBA, and this name applied to all the people who spoke the related language and dialects that come to known as Yoruba.

[@vibrantwoman1323]

I always wondered about this because the elderly people commonly use the word YOBA, or Yoouba instead of Yoruba till date. The northerners refer to the same western Nigerian people as yaribawa till today

[@MikeAfrik-lq9nk]

💌💚💌

[@NewEraSSKid]

The Hausas had called all Yoruba Speakers Yoruba since the 16th Century they didn’t differentiate between the different Yoruba Clans like Ijebu Ekiti, igbomina etc They called them all Yoruba. It was the Yoruba people who distinguished between the Yoruba clans where Yoruba meant Oyo people

[@nduodiaka-ph9sl]

Yariba in house was used to refer to people that are not serious.

[@omoyemisilver1231]

@@nduodiaka-ph9slomo ibo, yariba or yoruba have no meaning in Fulani or hausa, keep fooling yourself. The word yoruba is a praise or nickname to the oyo meaning central king, or king lord over kingdoms.

[@nduodiaka-ph9sl]

@omoyemisilver1231 This is what the hausas themselfs said.if you don't know the origin. Why are you scared to Declare oduduwa country.? Look at how yorubas have been messing up the zoo, nigeria. The hausas are right, Unserios and untrustworthy.

[@abdrashidgizmosolicitor2852]

nah,not Ajayi Crowther that named them Yooba.the colonialists read a book authoured by Uthman Dan Fodio's son or brother,History of the Yaarba.they branded every one in sw.Nigeria,Yoruba.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Yaarba is a variation of "Yagba" the indigenous name of a Northern Yoruba group. So it is still a Yoruba word.

[@ademolafayemi9093]

The same way Ajayi Crowther misled the Yorubas by translating satan to Esu instead of satani just portray the Yoruba traditions in some evil ways

[@tadeipadeola]

Clearly, you are not aware that the original manuscripts of Ajayi Crowther's translation works are preserved and he translated Satan as Satani. Please verify and stop perpetrating this misleading trope.

[@oladoyle1]

​@@tadeipadeola Thanks brother for your comment, can you please elaborate on your source. If indeed Bishop Ajayi Crowder has used satani which would have been consistent with other Greek or Jewish names translation in Yoruba Bible, then how did satani become Esu?

[@ikengaspirit3063]

​@@oladoyle1the same way God became Oluwa. There was an assumption that traditional African religion had close enough equivalent terms for several Christian concepts. And it did have a close enough term for God, now we know there is no being equivalent to Satan exactly in Yoruba religion but many of the original translators assumed there was.

[@Ranking007-tq9ng]

For those who feels original identity of Yoruba people was taken away, there is no identity that was taken away, all identities of people under the umbrella term Yoruba today remains intact. what was created was an umbrella identity which was never there, everyone goes by their individual identity and no umbrella identity and Yoruba only serves as umbrella identity

[@bakareolamiji5647]

My question is, why do the Hausas call them Yariba, what does Yariba mean in Hausa?

[@safetydeskltd9047]

Don't put fire here, lets leave that side aside.

[@bakareolamiji5647]

@@safetydeskltd9047 How? I'm trying to learn something here

[@nauticdixons]

​@safetydeskltd9047 WOW.... It's like the "believe or die and go to hell" Christianity antics. You shouldn't seek knowledge, just believe whatever the hell you're fed. How do you grow? What a shame!

[@kayoarawo6116]

Irrelevant, it's a nickname just like Yorubas had and have many nicknames for them too

[@HadizaOyediran-cm8yi]

History is very important. Not that one is trying to put fire. Imagin the supposed custodian of Oduduwa tribe or yoruba saying that their forefathers descended from heaven with cock or whatever in his hands. This was what they made us believe while growing up, and this is what Ooni of Ife is still holding on to, and he want people to believe all over the world

[@starej4035]

So it was the Hausas that gave Yoruba their name? Interesting! Yoruba was formed like Nigeria. A group of different often antagonistic people forced together without their consent and given a fake name!

[@ikengaspirit3063]

No, it was the name of a Northern Yoruba group, the "Yagba" that was then translated to Ibaariba or Nupe and from there to Hausa. This transliterated version of Yagba then became adopted by all Yoruba.

[@starej4035]

@@ikengaspirit3063 Sorry but that is not true. Go and read the history or look at the old map.

[@donaldedwards-yu4ui]

He wrote the yoruba bible,by translating the english to yoruba. And that’s what we are enjoying today. Some believes that’s Sierra Leonean. No. He’s born at a town called then as “Osogun”, now met than “Iseyin town. He’s captured and sold as a young boy slave to the arabs. But, he’s rescued and saved by the British missionaries, and he’s converted and baptised as a Christian and had a name change. He’s then educated the western way at today’s “Fourah bay college”. God rest and bless his soul

[@TOGBE.KOKU.VODU.KETOGLO.ZODANU]

We Are Not Hebrews We Are Not Bantsus

[@idowumohammed4689]

Why are we like this? Arabs did not feature anywhere in the history of Ajayi crowder. Europeans bought Ajayi Crowther, and the slave ship was intercepted and its human cargoes returned to Sierra Leone. Frankly Arab NEVER featured in coastal West Africa Transatlantic slave trade. It was all done by those who called themselves Christians. Superficial conversion of Heathens to Christians just before they board the ships was one the lies the slave-traders used to justify their heinous trade in their warped minds.

[@masehoart7569]

This is commonly known. It must have been a traumatising experience, especially having to witness how most of the enslaved died on board. Nonetheless, despite all the work he did for the Europeans, they betrayed him - the classical case

[@flemickolowu7524]

Thank you for eulogizing Àjàyí Crowther. He translated the English bible into the so called Yoruba' language. He however made some mistakes in his translations.A notable one is translating SATAN as ÈṢÙ. ÈṢÙ in the believe system of the 'kaaro, oojires' the so called Yoruba' is not a rebel. He is a police man that sanitizes the society purnishing those with evil intents to corrupt society. Àjàyí Crowther made that mistake in translation probably because he was taken into slavery as a child and was ignorant of ÈṢÙ in his homeland. The best translation he should have given to the word SATAN in Yoruba is SATAANI.

[@ehisgeorge414]

He crafted a name to unite distinct tribe under one name. Yoruba as a "tribe" never existed under the slave boy started reading and writing his stories.

[@ademolaoguntunmibi2658]

THE YORUBA PEOPLE ARE NOT A SEPARATE RACE OF PEOPLE. THE SO-CALLED YORUBA PEOPLE ARE AN ETHNIC GROUP THAT BELONGED TO THE NEGROID RACE. PLEASE 🙏 KEEP THIS IMPORTANT FACT IN MIND.

[@masehoart7569]

“Negroid” is just another misnomer like Yoruba. It means similar to a “negro” - there were no negros in Africa before the Europeans decided to name Africans so who already had plenty of names for themselves

[@ikengaspirit3063]

The term "race" used to have a wider meaning. They also referred to the "Anglo race" in older books but today no one would say English people are a race unto themselves. It basically just used to mean a type of something but in time, narrowed specifically to the 3, 4 or 6 races(types) of man.

[@bolufakayode5528]

⁠I think the Oduduwa tribe are actually Arabians. Remember all of Africa and what they call the Middle East which is North East Africa. The natives were and still are black Africans. Africans come is different shades and phenotypes but are what we call black people. Orignal Arabs are Africans but through slaving mixed with Central Asians and Caucasian slaves. Though throughout all the Arabic countries there are orignal black men who have been living there for thousands of years. Now also Oduduwa evidence leads out of Mecca or Arabia. Something not unique to other northwest Africans. Before Oduduwa left Arabia where exactly did his tribe come from could be Yemen or all over the Arabian desert. When Oduduwa made his passage into Yoruba lands there were already natives. So yes there are orignal Yoruba people from the lands and foreigners from Arabia. This is why the Oduduwa tribe are Arabs by definition. The Arabic language and Yoruba have numerous similarities and cognates. Many Arabian tribes for centuries even before Mohammed left Arabia into Africa. Into all of North-West Africa. That’s where the name Yarab, Y’araba, Yariba, Yarub, Yaruba come from highlighting the Arabic influence. Also for the language of Arabic the language is not mutual comprehensive by all Arabs. Hundreds of different dialects. A man from Lebanon can not understand a man who speaks Arabic in Mauritania. An Egyptian can not understand a man who speaks Arabic in Chad. Though it’s all Arabic. This is how Yoruba fits this definition. It’s Arabic but that does not mean it’s mutual understanding by all Arabs. Hausa is an Arabic language, as Kanuri, Mande, Fulani, and many other languages throughout Niger, Mali, Morocco, Algeria, Nigeria, Yemen, Eritrea Ethiopia etc…. Just different dialects which makes them incomprehensible. Yoruba is a rich and very intelligent. When the Alafin historians were saying that Oduduwa came from Mecca. They were not stupid or naive of who they were. Also the Alafin as his historians were proud Ifa followers and could care less for Islam at the time. Arab does not equate Islam. Arabia during that time and Northen Africa was not 100 percent Islamic as we view it now. Many traditional beliefs were being practice with Islam under the fold. Crowther dispute this heavily since he had become christianized. Yet this is not an unusual situation since many other Africans in North West Africa had migrated from Arabia. Arabia is African land originally based on truthful evidence (another topic) as for the originals who lived in Yorubaland before Oduduwa. They took the name Yoruba. The history of the originals is very ancient….. a more difficult scope to analyze but not impossible.

[@limatglobaltemp7181]

Oduduwa has nothing to do with Arabians. What is the meaning of Oduduwa in Arab language? How did Oduduwa leave Arab land and migrated to Ife to take over the dynasty of rulership from the natives? What made him to leave Arabia? These stories don't add up. There is claim that Oduduwa was driven from Mecca or Arab land during wars by Muslims and traditionalists. The history of Ife itself goes back as far as that of the Israelites and that of Oduduwa in Ife predates Islam. The father of Oduduwa was a native of Ife, so Oduduwa was born in Ife. His father was said to be Abure. There is nothing in Arab history to reflect any war that made a warrior leave Arab. And nothing in Ife history to say Oduduwa was an immigrant. He was a native. He descended from one of the 16 ruling dynasty of Ife but went to war and came back to find his father was killed when it was his turn to rule. He used force to take over the throne and established his lineage as sole rulership. The origin of the word Yoruba is as a result of trades between Yorubas and Yemeni Arabs as you said. It arose from the mutual names that the Arabs and Yorubas call themselves. Why do Yorubas call Arabs "Larubawa"? How close is Arabian to Larubawa?

[@user-zx9vk4ks6z]

Adjayi Crowther was not a Yoruba. He was an ex- slave rescued and settled in the area by the British Navy. He took on the name like many other returnees. Same way as the grandparents of a rather notorious politician who was a Nupe ex-slave became Yoruba and the offspring are now more Yoruba than the Omoluabi themselves. Fact.

[@oneman.1780]

at user z... samel ajayi crowder is a little boy captured by Fulani and sold He is yoruba returnee fom osogun in yoruba land

[@kemiladipo5091]

His village, Oshogun still exists near Oyo Town.

[@sheltonmackey6449]

Yoruba were originally Israelites 2 thousands years ago who fled south from northeast africa to evade capture from slavery.

[@masehoart7569]

Then please explain why the human remains found in the Ihò Eléérú caves, Ondo State, are approx. 13,000 years old?

[@babafemiladipo2519]

Why is the History of Africa usually only documented by the whites? Do we Nigerians Document our own history? Most likely No, and we still don't till this day

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Because most of us held to high esteem documenting our past in oral and festival traditions. So the few written sources were mostly royal, many of which was destroyed during colonial conquest as royal capitals were raised when they resisted and the south resisted much harder than the north, so there's way more surviving northern stuff(also the north was literate for longer). Modern historians tend to (and for good reason) trust written sources more so the oral and festival stuff are often ignored but increasingly now, we also use oral and festival sources, so if you read more recent books, you'll see them also use our oral and festival traditions as sources.

[@halifextwice]

It’s because you guys didn’t have a written language until Europeans created it for you and civilized you via Christianity ✝️. Your welcome.

[@oluwafemiibidapo6629]

In summary, our language was named by the Hausa people...Chai

[@ikengaspirit3063]

No, it was the name of a Northern Yoruba group, the "Yagba" that was then translated to Ibaariba or Nupe and from there to Hausa. This transliterated version of Yagba then became adopted by all Yoruba.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

The modernist theory of Yoruba identity being colonial is false. Every source we have since before that era refered to all Yoruba they knew of as Yoruba. The name Yoruba is also based off the name of a Yoruba group, the Yagba. That was transliterated into Central Sudanic languages as the name of all Yoruba.

[@pondarecords]

The Yorubas are actually part of the lost tribe of Israel during the time of the Biblical King Jeroboam or Yeroboam after the Assyrian invasion that led the kingdom into a land that was later known as Africa and West Africa, then majorly Nigeria.

[@creative_cooper]

All people come from Africa. Stop spreading BS.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Stop spreading BS. This is false. I know some of the modern era ancestors believed this but they learnt it from Muslims who they thought were more knowledgeable on the matter but they weren't.

[@oseiosei6649]

Why is that where ever Christianity goes on the African continent they are native people who comes out and say they are also a lost tribe of Israel. It never fails.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@oseiosei6649 it's not just a Christian thing. According to Bello of the Sokoto Caliphate, he and the Yoruba claimed Canaanite origins.

[@jacobjohnson5387]

The origin of the name Yoru-baal is as old as the time of Gideon in the holy bible . As the narrative according to Judges 6:32 the name of Gideon was changed to YARU-BA-AL and not during the period the letter J was not in existence which in the it was written Jerub-baal destroyer of idols and baal or which the Yoruba will call baale the chief or the Head of the house. Origin of the Yorubas, Yariba, Yaribawa or Yaribaal are the people of Gideon even some of the Yaribaal or Yarubu are today in Yemen and Oman. The people who called us Yorubas new the origin and how powerful we are and our connection with the Creator of Heaven and the earth but they will not tell us that the Yorubas are the Judahites and this is why the Oracle Ephod which the yorubas called Ifa-Odu or Epha.

[@ifanla6579]

he sold us out may you never rest well

[@omoyemisilver1231]

No, he won, yoruba mean royalty a nickname to oyo empire, oyo- ru -ba . The central king ( oyo) . Ajayi is from oyo so he prefers oyo nickname to aku which mean greetings. And yariba has no meaning in Fulani or hausa

[@ikengaspirit3063]

​@@omoyemisilver1231 Yes, alot of people miss that Yariba is just the Hausa pronunciation of a Northern Yoruba people, not something they just made up.

[@abdoljamee3564]

The first bible in africa to be translated to african language is yoruba.....

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Wasn't Kongo translations earlier?.

[@oseiosei6649]

It was the Kongo. Kongo was the first African people, besides Ethiopia and Egypt, to come in contact with Christianity from the white man.

[@paulirving2986]

A language group/nation/"tribe" can NOT EVER be a "Race".

[@GidiLad]

'Yariba' is a derogatory Hausa-Fulani word used to describe southwestern Nigerians. Yamiri was used to describe Igbos. Yariba means, "usurper, deceitful, shady, treacherous, cheater usurer and double-dealing bastard"

[@babasolaadewumi3052]

Lies that will never stick cos there's no evidence of this your hateful fairytale. Yariba is simply a mis-pronounciation of Yoruba just as europeans or other foreigners mispronounce it till this day. Grab a Hausa or Fulani dictionary, you won't find any word that begins with a "Yo" hence it is understandable that it will be a challenge for hausa speakers to pronounce Yoruba correctly. There is not even a "Yari" in their vocabulary as well. The closest to the word Yarba or Yoruba is Yaro. Which means boy. So stop pandering to lies without substance. It suggests intellectual emptiness. It is a completely different question as to whether or not they believe the people who they have mispronounced their names to be cunning or other negative things you mentioned. The mispronounced name means nothing in their vocabulary. Hence, not found in their dictionary Yamiri on the other hand is something Igbos say to them when they request for water and didn't speak hausa.

[@abbey923]

Yet Hausa-Fulani cannot pronounce the word “Yoruba” exactly as the Yoruba people pronounce it. Yamiri has its roots in the Igbo sentence for “I want to drink water.” Yoruba or Yamiri are not exogenous expressions. Other ethnicities only appropriate them to fit their own narratives and descriptions.

[@abbey923]

"À yọ orù báwọn tọ́ ọmọ túntùn. Ọmọ gbó, orù ò gbó." That expression is where “Yorùbá" is originally derived from. The Fulani only deliberately replaced Yorùbá with Yariba to denigrate the people and culture and more importantly express their anger and frustration of not being able to conquer the Yorùbá like they did to the entire Hausa nation in what is now Nigeria.

[@advancedadam.7699]

​@@abbey923where can we find your point of view. Because it's very clear this chanell did not point them out.

[@abbey923]

@@advancedadam.7699 Several scholars including Moyo Okediji at UT-Austin have talked about it.

[@2LETLIVE]

This idea that Yoruba people descended from a single man called Oduduwa is ludicrous. Secondly, there was not nothing like Yoruba during the times of Oduduwa, who actually was a prince, who was exiled from the Benin Kingdom, found himself in Ife after months in the wilderness. But according to the Yorubas, Oduduwa fell from the sky, which is laughable. These lies is beginning to unravel. You can't go around making up your history. How can a man fall from the sky? From what civilization did he come from in out of space? These are serious questions to be asked.

[@Xtjiggzs]

Calm down 😂😂 That version is simply Yoruba Creation Myth- every civilisation has their own Creation Myth. The plausible version of Yoruba origination is that Oduduwa migrated to ile -Ife -

[@luckybrown6722]

​@@Xtjiggzsthen which people where in ile ife then, apparently it's clear he met people there, where the people yoruba speaking people or where they speaking some other language. The Oduduwa myth is just some pagan religious myths. Nothing true about, they just want to sell their religion in the Best appealing way, so they have to come up with such a myth. The Yoruba as a distinct group, evolve like every other groups, there's no patriarch like Oduduwa, the people yoruba just evolve and spread

[@PeterAdebara]

Why do you keep spreading misinformation and seem pleased about it? Instead of asking questions and learning, you continue to disseminate falsehoods wherever you go. Let me clarify this for you in the hope that you will research the facts and stop spreading inaccuracies. In Yoruba mythology, Oduduwa is one of the Irunmole who descended to Earth and is credited with creating mankind. He lived as a humanoid and had children. Many years later, there was a reincarnation of him who also bore the name Oduduwa. This new Oduduwa is the grand father of Oranmiyan, who later fathered Eweka. This Oduduwa has a well-documented birthplace and parents in Yoruba history. His birthplace, Oke-Ora, is widely accepted by all Yoruba people.

[@Xtjiggzs]

@@luckybrown6722: Christian /Jews has their Creation Myth, same for the Arabs, India etc. So there is nothing strange that Yorubas has their own creation myth. Regarding Oduduwa, yes, he met people living in Ufe (Ife). He later became their leader, set up the obaship system- used till today. He’s regarded as the father of the Yorubas simply because he instituted an organised governance system. Please do your own research…

[@Xtjiggzs]

⁠@@luckybrown6722What do you mean by “pagan”?

[@Ranking007-tq9ng]

The name Yoruba or Yariba or yaruba were all existing before we adopted the name, they were ancient Yemenis tribe who established the first Yoruba dynasty in 14th century in East Africa the Fulani scholar that refers to us as Yariba did so because he was convinced that we are from this Yemen tribe due to our Middle East history

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Yoruba are not Yemeni. God forbid. Yoruba were born in this land. However, you are correct, Yoruba identity is at least as old as and probably older than Ife.

[@uniqtouchpt]

EKO IS BENIN WORD FOR GREETING SITTING OLDER MEN AND WOMEN.

[@oneman.1780]

dey place your fans..so, ekotedo is also a benin word?