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.

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.

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

Her name is a contraction of Yoruba words: " Yeye omo eja " that mean " Mother whose children are like fish.

Because of his own difficulties acclimating to his new kingdom, Oba Oranmiyan changed the name of the city to Ile-Ibinu ( 1180-1897 ) which in the Yoruba language means the " Land of Vexation ," and decided to leave the city.

The Yoruba Ijebu clan of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria, claim that she was actually a noblewoman of theirs known as Oloye Bilikisu Sungbo, which is similar to the name mentioned in the Qur ' an, Balqis.

The name is actually a Yoruba word meaning stranger, which is what those groups represented to them.

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He was given the name " Olu Dara ," which literally translated means " God is good ," by a Yoruba priest when he returned to America.

Prominent in Nigeria, Yoruba is an ethnic group which speaks a language of the same name.

The name comes from a Yoruba word " juju " or " jiju " meaning " throwing " or " something being thrown.

The term " Bimbo " is also the shortened form of a female Yoruba name in Nigeria.

However, reports from other languages ( Cantonese, Yoruba, Hausa, Ewe, to name a few ) challenge this statement, showing instead that ideophones can be fully integrated into sentences, just like ordinary verbs and nouns.

Obey, whose full name is Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi, was born in Idogo, Ogun State, Nigeria of Egba – Yoruba ethnic background.

The name ' Obafemi ' translates literally to ' the king loves me ' in the Yoruba language.

* A traditional name of the Yoruba tribe which factors into Yoruba mythology.

The character's name is taken from the book The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola, a member of the Yoruba people of Nigeria.

Information about Amos Tutuola, recounted in the book's introduction, states that his grandfather was an odafin, the spiritual leader of a clan, and Tutuola was the given name of the author's father ; Odafin literally means " the establisher of laws " or " lawmaker " in the Yoruba language of southwestern Nigeria.

The state's name is derived from the River Osun, the venerated natural spring that is the manifestation of the Yoruba goddess of the same name.

Annual traditional festivities and invocations of the Osun goddess are held along the banks of the river bearing her name into which-according to Yoruba Oratory traditions-she transformed.

The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba " great river " in Manding ; Orimiri or Orimili " great water " in Igbo ; Egerew n-Igerewen " river of rivers " in Tuareg ; Isa Ber " big river " in Songhay ; Kwara in Hausa ; and Oya in Yoruba.

In Yoruba mythology, Oya ( Alternative spellings: Oiá, Iansã, Iansan ), is the Undergoddess of the Niger River.

" This is due to the Niger River ( known to the Yoruba as the Oya ) traditionally being known for nine tributaries.

The Yoruba theogony enjoys a Pantheon of Orishas, this includes: Aganju, Babalu Aye, Erinle, Eshu / Elegba, Yemaya, Nana Buluku, Obà, Obatala, Oxossi / Ochosi / Osoosi, Oshumare, Ogun / Ogoun / Ogunda, Oko, Olofi, Olokun, Olorun, Orunmila, Oshun, Osun, Oya, Ozain, and Shango, among countless others.

Babalawo ( Babaaláwo in full and pronounced Baba-a-láwo, literally meaning ' father or master of the mysticism ' in the Yoruba language ) is a Yorùbá chieftaincy title that denotes a Priest of Ifá.

Merindinlogun ( from the Yoruba mẹrindínlógún " sixteen ", literally " four taken from 20 ") is a cowrie-shell divination method practiced in the Yoruba religion, and of several Afro-American religions derived from it, that uses 16 cowrie shells.

Due to this, the nominally ministerial chiefly titles that still exist ( e. g.: the Yoruba Oloye ) are usually viewed as little more than the equivalents of the British knighthood, of little dynastic consequence except as a means of passively honouring the supporters of a monarch who is himself probably more contemporary in his styling.

His surname means " Big tree " in Yoruba, his father's native language.

Once the iyawo has accomplished their 7th year cycle obligation, they become elders ( egbon in Yoruba, egbomi in Brazil, which means my elder ) within their religious family.

Amongst the Yoruba, the annual ceremonies in honour of the dead serve as a means of assuring their ancestors a place among the living.

* Dudu means black in Yoruba language

* Omo, means child in the Yoruba language

The word " axé " comes from a Yoruba religious greeting used in the Candomblé and Umbanda religions that means " soul ", " light ", " spirit " or " good vibration ".

Smith Tucker points out that titi in Yoruba means ' endless.

" Fuji, in this context, should not be mistaken for the Yoruba word " fuja ," or " faaji ," which means leisure or enjoyment.

The college's popular but unofficial motto is " Ashé ," which means " We make it happen " in Yoruba.

Esu / Elegba “ is the divine messenger and activator .” It is a central belief of the Yoruba people that Ifa provides them a means by which to understand the forces that influence their lives on a daily basis ; this can be achieved in a variety of ways, most notably sacrifice and prayer.

The Yoruba saying, “ Aye l ’ oja, orun n ’ ile " best capture this idea and it means, “ The world is a marketplace we visit, the otherworld is home .” Thus, the Yoruba believe that we all exist forever in the orun once we arrive there.

Characters often employ Yoruba proverbs primarily as a means of bolstering their opinions and persuading others to take their point of view.

The presence of repetitious phrases in Jamaican Creole such as " su-su " ( gossip ) and " pyaa-pyaa " ( sickly ) mirror the presence of such phrases in West African languages such as " bam-bam ", which means " complete " in the Yoruba language.

Oranyan made Oyo his new kingdom and became the first " oba " ( meaning ' king ' or ' ruler ' in the Yoruba language ) with the title of " Alaafin of Oyo " ( Alaafin means ' owner of the palace ' in Yoruba ).

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.

In the native Yoruba language Oluwatobi / Oluwatobiloba / Jesutobi it means " Our God / Jesus is Great ".