Yoruba Information Location: Southwestern Nigeria, Benin Population: 10 million Language: Yoruba (Kwa) Neighboring Peoples: Fon, Igbo, Igala, Idoma Types of Art: The arts of the Yoruba are as numerous as their deities, and many objects are placed on shrines to honor the gods and the ancestors. Beautiful sculpture abounds in wood and brass and the occasional terracotta. Varied masking traditions ...

Yoruba Overview The Yoruba: An Introduction, University of Indiana The Yoruba The Yoruba Tribe Andrew Apter, The Yoruba Ethnographical Archive, University of Chicago The Yoruba and Other Major Nigerian Tribes Yoruba Religion and Myth The Effects of Colonialism on Yoruba Religion Related Websites Ijinle Oro (maintained by Olaniyi Afolabi, from Windsor, Ontario) ...

Top: Africa Policy Home Page | Up: Table of Contents | Prev: Zulu Identity in South Africa Talking about Tribe Moving from Stereotypes to Analysis Background Paper Published November, 1997 The Yoruba People There are 20 million or more people who speak Yoruba as their mother tongue. Some 19 million of them live in Nigeria, but a growing diaspora are dispersed around Africa and around the world.

Back to corporations | rat haus | Index | Search | tree ( ASCII text ) Mirrored from http://www.insular.com/~tmc/politics/africa/ogoni.fact.html Factsheet on the Ogoni Struggle The Ogoni People of Nigeria The Ogoni are a people of approximately 500 000, who live in Ogoni, a region in Rivers State, Nigeria. The region of Ogoni only has an area of 650 square kilometers, resulting in a very high ...

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