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TYF is a Socio Cultural Org estab for promoting Yorùbá Conservatism & interest amongst Yorùbá people in d world. A voice for everything Yoruba self preservation
Jun 3, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Facts about Kojoda
The Yorùbá Traditional Calendar.
"Lunar"
The Chinese, Russians, even North Koreans etc have their calendars.
"Gregorian 2023 and A Challenge to resurrect the Yorùbá calendar":

History and time are all a matter of perspective. Therefore, even if the Gregorian… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8. Buddhist Calendar: 2566 — Used for religious, ceremonial, and official purposes. Dates history from the year the Buddha attained parinibbāna, although there is disagreement about when that actually occurred.

9. Nanakshahi Calendar: 554 — Used for religious purposes in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Feb 24, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
#Yoruba
Beyond the Berlin Border - Restoring Africa's Nations and Civilisations
Despite our struggles, we are still stuck in the 19th century and our souls continue to revolt in rejection of the realities carved by aliens with neither context nor consent.
blog.thinkyorubafirst.org/africa-beyond-… The 138th Year in the Era of Oríburúkú
138 years ago, the Berlin Conference destroyed Africa. Our language became a vernacular, and our people were separated from their brothers and sisters across alien borders.
Read below 👇🔥
blog.thinkyorubafirst.org/the-138th-year…
Feb 22, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
CHALLENGE!
What Yorùbá Subgroup do you belong?
Òyó, Ijebu, Èkìtì, Ijesa, Ifè, Ondo, Egba, Ibarapa, Egbado, Akoko, Owo, Ikale, Ilaje, Itsekiri, Awori, Ketu, Sabe, Ifonyin, Idasa, Popo, Ifè (also known as the Ana, and found today in Togo Republic), Ahori, Itsha, Mahi, Igbomina, Ibolo, Òwu, Owe, Oworo, Jumu, Bunu,Yagba, Gbede, Ikiri, Okun Yorùbá (Owe, Oworo, Jumu, Bunu, Yagba, and Ikiri), let us add Olùkumi ( Delta North).
Feb 22, 2023 17 tweets 6 min read
#Yoruba #History

YORÙBÁ communities in Delta North called OLÙKUMI.

-Ugbodu was founded as UGBODUMILA.

-Ukwu Nzu was founded as Eko-Efun due to the presence of abundant kaolin or native chalk there. ImageImage They are said to the the oldest people in Delta North and their Igbo speaking Neighbours call them ODIANI which in Igbo language means the "ANCIENT PEOPLE" and you know what it means for your neighbours to call you ancient people.
Feb 21, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
Yorùbá Drums and Sound Energy as means of Ancestral communication.

Written by @blockofbuilder for @ThinkYoruba_1st
Music has always been viewed as entertainment, a feel good mood.
blog.thinkyorubafirst.org/yoruba-drums-a… uplifting beat that can transform your emotions from sad to happy and vice versa. At times,it’s just a noise when the beat is out of rhythm. So we can all agree that music definitely have something special, something unique, something that transcends just purely entertainment. Image
Feb 20, 2023 18 tweets 8 min read
Àsàkẹ́: The Lyrics, The Culture, The Renaissance and Yorùbá.
WRITTEN by @blockofbuilder for @ThinkYoruba_1st
@asakemusik @Olamide @boy_director
A MUST READ: 🔥💯💥
blog.thinkyorubafirst.org/%C3%A0s%C3%A0k…
A THREAD 🔥 A quick listen to Àsàkẹ́’s music will captivate you and transport you to the climax of entertainment from the beginning to the end of each track. While his music is a fusion of Afro beat, Fuji music, Rap and pop culture, the epitome of Àsàkẹ́’s melody is deeply rooted in the
Feb 11, 2023 15 tweets 5 min read
#Yoruba #History #ObafemiAwolowo #Lagos #Nigeria

"HISTORY of the term "No Man's Land" tag on LAGOS".
SOURCE: Separatist Agitations in Nigeria since 1914,pg 569
A THREAD from the excerpt below 👇

At the same I953 conference, Nigerian delegates again became painfully aware of the serious political differences which tended to mar the evolution of harmony between various sections. The controversy over Lagos, Nigeria's capital and leading commercial centre, caused more bitterness in I953 than it had in 1950. During the 1950 and 1953 conferences which
Jan 24, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
YORÙBÁ cultural centre commissioned in the historical YORÙBÁ state of LAGOS ( Eko-Aromi).
Note: Urbanization must show Footprint of the civilization of the people, Goto china, Japan, Russia 🪆, India etc, their urbanization showcase who they are, Infact, we have Gothic, Islamic , Indian, Chinese, japanese even Russian architectural styles, urbanization isn't westernization and Yorùbáland must do better to showcase Yorùbá civilization in our urbanization, lest our land is called "No man's land", our urbanization must be Yorubanized even in the face of
Jan 24, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
YORÙBÁ cultural centre commissioned in the historical YORÙBÁ state of LAGOS ( Eko-Aromi).
Note: Urbanization must show Footprint of the civilization of the people, Goto china, Japan, Russia 🪆, India etc, their urbanization showcase who they are, Infact, we have Gothic, Islamic , Indian, Chinese, japanese even Russian architectural styles, urbanization isn't westernization and Yorùbáland must do better to showcase Yorùbá civilization in our urbanization, lest our land is called "No man's land", our urbanization must be Yorubanized even in the face of
Jan 24, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
Some myths to keep Nigeria as One are as follows:
1. Some groups are more entrepreneurs and hardworking.
2. Some group are only good are studying books.
3. Some are born to rule/better politicians.
4. Some are lazy.
5. Some are better in technology. 6. Some are better in Farming and agriculture.
7. Some are better in military 🪖🎖️ and war.
8. Some have beautiful women.
9. Some have handsome men.
10. We have intermarried one another.
These are all myths created to provide interdependency, these groups existed independently
Jan 15, 2023 24 tweets 6 min read
ABOUT THE NAME "YORÙBÁ".
By: Madamme Tao

Please feel free to seek further clarification on any of these 20 points:

(1) The name ‘Yorùbá’ which we go by today was coined from words from our own language.

In other words, it is not a word from a foreign language.
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Neither was it coined from 2 or more words from a foreign language.

(2) This coinage happened about half a millennium ago (at the minimum).
In other words, the name ‘Yorùbá’ was coined some 500 years ago, or very likely way earlier than that.
Jan 13, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
#Yoruba #Ijebu
The Origin of Ijebu-Ode
"Ifè and/or Waddai, Sudan??"
Let's see:
THREAD:
Firstly, that a narrative is popular doesn't make it true, so let's breakdown what we know about ijebu from a classical history perspective.

The first written history of ijebu was the work of D.O EPEGA IN 1919 where he clearly stated the origin of the Awujale stool and indeed all ijebu people was at Ifè ''IWE ITAN IJEBU''
In 1927 when the history of ijebu igbo was
Oct 22, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
As these agricultural families, households, and communities branched off from one another and became relatively isolated in their farming villages between the years 250 and 600, they spun off several mutually intelligible dialects that laid the foundations for most of the Image present-day Yorùbá dialect/language continuum. The landscape that these proto-Yoruboid ancestors were moving into, however, was not devoid of human populations. The Later Stone Age (LSA) populations had occupied the region as early as the ninth millennium BC as shown by the Image