In the religion of the Yoruba people, Obàtálá is the creator of human bodies, which were supposedly brought to life by Olorun's breath.

Any orisha may lay claim to an individual, but until that individual is initiated into the priesthood of that orisha, Obàtálá still owns that head.

Obàtálá is also the owner of all ori or heads.

In Santería, Obàtálá is syncretized with Our Lady of Mercy

Statue of Obàtálá in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia | Bahía.

According to the " Regla de Ocha branch ", Obàtálá has been syncretized with Our Lady of Mercy.

Within each of the three regions the dominant ethnic groups ; the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo respectively formed political parties that were largely regional and based on ethnic allegiances: the Northern People's Congress ( NPC ) in the North ; the Action Group in the West ( AG ): and the National Conference of Nigeria and the Cameroons ( NCNC ) in the East.

On account of his creation of the world Oduduwa became the ancestor of the first divine king of the Yoruba, while Obatala is believed to have created the first humans out of clay.

Although Juju music, like apala, sakara, fuji, and waka was created by Muslim Yoruba ( NOTE: Tunde King was a Muslim and an alhaji until his death in the 1980s ); however, the music itself remains secular.

The first Yoruba state was Ile-Ife, said to have been founded around 1000 CE by a supernatural figure, the first oni Oduduwa.

Yoruba city-states were usually governed by an oba and a iwarefa, a council of chiefs who advised the oba.

In Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, Jon Butler of Yale University argues against a Europeanized or predominantly British identity of colonial America, and underlines contributions by Igbo, Ashanti, Yoruba, Catawba, and Lenape.

The stone axe heads, imported in great quantities from the north and used in opening the forest for agricultural development, were venerated by the Yoruba descendants of neolithic pioneers as " thunderbolts " hurled to earth by the gods.

The most widely spoken Niger – Congo languages by number of native speakers are Yoruba, Igbo, Fula and Shona and Zulu.

In arguably its most influential manifestation, the system of prophecy practiced by the babalawos and iyanifas of the historically Yoruba regions of West Africa have bequeathed to the world a corpus of fortune-telling poetic methodologies so intricate that it has been added by UNESCO to its official intangible cultural heritage of the World list.

Authentic Yoruba carved and painted wood tribal statue of a " cock fight " Miao ( i. e. Hmong ) are animists, shamanists and ancestor worshipers with beliefs being affected in varying degrees by Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity.

These expeditions were typically carried out by African kingdoms, such as the Oyo empire ( Yoruba ), the Ashanti Empire, the kingdom of Dahomey, and the Aro Confederacy.

Vodun is practised by the Ewe people, Kabye people, Mina people and Fon people of southern and central Togo, southern and central Benin and ( under a different name ) the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria.

The origin of the name is uncertain, but it could be a corruption of'm ' oganwo ', the name used by the Yoruba and Ibo people of West Africa to described trees of the genus Khaya, which is closely related to Swietenia.

A modern example of this phenomenon, meanwhile, is that of the priestly monarchs of the Yoruba holy city of Ile-Ife in Nigeria, where ritual ceremonies have been performed for centuries by the reigning Onis of the realm for the sustenance of the entire planet and its people.

There has even been a suggestion of a link between the name " Sheba " and that of Zanzibar, and a massive earthenware monument of the Yoruba people all the way in West Africa known as Sungbo's Eredo actually caused mild excitement when it was first studied by Western scholars due to the tribal folk tradition that the divine personage it was built in honour of was none other than the Queen of Sheba herself.

When the male Irunmole attempted to subjegate Oshun due to her femaleness, she removed her divine energy ( called ase by the Yoruba ) from the project of creating the world and all subsequent efforts at creation were in vain.

Oduduwa, Olofin Adimula, oba and founder of the Yoruba people, phonetically written by his people as Odùduwà and sometimes contracted as Odudua or Oòdua, is generally held among the Yoruba to be the ancestor of the crowned Yoruba kings.

Going by the tribal records, he is commonly referred to as the first Ooni of Ife and progenitor of the Yoruba people.

Forgiven by Olodumare, he was later given the responsibility of molding the physical bodies of human beings ; the making of land in this story is said to be a symbolic reference to the founding of the Yoruba kingdoms, and this is why Oduduwa is credited with

In female form among the Yoruba, Olokun is the wife of Olorun and, by him, the mother of Obatala and Odudua.

Olòrún is the Yorùbá name given to one of the three manifestations of the supreme god in the Yoruba / Lucumi pantheon.

The oba ( meaning ' king ' in the Yoruba language ) at Oyo, who was referred to as the Alaafin of Oyo, ( Alaafin means ' owner of the palace ' in Yoruba ), was the head of the empire and supreme overlord of the people.

Exu de Quimbanda has a few similarities in how he is worshipped, such as in the colours he likes, but he is an entirely different entity, originating among the people of Angola, not the Yoruba of Nigeria.

The Yoruba belief in Orisha is meant to consolidate not contradict the terms of Olódùmarè.

Igbo gods, like those of the Yoruba, were numerous, but their relationship to one another and human beings was essentially egalitarian, reflecting Igbo society as a whole.

Unlike the forest-bound Yoruba kingdoms, Oyo was in the savanna and drew its military strength from its cavalry forces, which established hegemony over the adjacent Nupe and the Borgu kingdoms and thereby developed trade routes farther to the north.

and the Action Group ( AG ) was a left-leaning party that represented the interests of the Yoruba people in the West.

The Akintola faction argued that the Yoruba peoples were losing their pre-eminent position in business in Nigeria to people of the Igbo tribe because the Igbo-dominated NCNC was part of the governing coalition and the AG was not.

Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines with Hausa and Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the south-west, Ijaws in the south-south and Igbo in the south-east.

Porto-Novo was once a tributary of the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo and there continues to be a sizable Yoruba community in Porto Novo today.

Outside Eurasia, in Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare was another mythic regenerating serpent.

In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a primordial Orisha whose first appearance was as a hunter named Tobe Ode.

Shango is historically a royal ancestor of the Yoruba as he was the third king of the Oyo Kingdom prior to his posthumous deification.

Captain Davies was a Yoruba businessman of considerable wealth for the period, and the couple moved back to their native Africa after their wedding.

* Bey was also the title that was awarded by the Sultan of Turkey in the twilight of the empire to Oloye Mohammed Shitta, an African merchant prince of the Yoruba people who served as a ranking leader of the Muslim community in the kingdom of Lagos.

Waka was a fusion of jùjú, fuji and traditional Yoruba music. Waka music is coming back into the new age with fresh artist like Tila man Timi Korus and Dollar billz bringing back the old school into new school. In an interview granted by Timi Korus he acknowledge that Waka Music was made popular to younger generations during the time of salawa abeni but waka music has been in the industry in a long time.

" He immediately became the first true Oba of Benin, Oba Eweka I. Oba Eweka was the first to reject the title of the native Benin " Ogiso " and took the title " Oba ," meaning ' king ' in the Yoruba language.

The drum was originally played by the Yoruba people of Nigeria and was carved out of a solid log of wood.