Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s.

In Africa there is no term for music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa.

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.

From its beginnings in the streets of Lagos, popular music in Nigeria has long been an integral part of the field of African pop, bringing in influences and instruments from many ethnic groups, most prominently including the Yoruba.

During this time, a few other styles such as apala, derived from traditional Yoruba music, also found a more limited audience.

By the start of the 20th century, Yoruba music had incorporated brass instruments, written notation, Islamic percussion and new Brazilian techniques, resulting in the Lagos-born palm-wine style.

Apala is a style of vocal and percussive Muslim Yoruba music.

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.

" King " Sunny Adé ( born Sunday Adeniyi, September 22, 1946 ) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music.

Sunny Adé's music is characterised by, among other instruments, the talking drum-an instrument indigenous to his Yoruba roots, the guitar and his peculiar application to jùjú music, that would easily put him in the same class as guitar musicians like Santana.

His music is in the age old tradition of singing poetic lyrics (" Ewi " in Yoruba ) and praise of dignitaries as well components of " juju " ( traditional African belief ) called the " Ogede "-" casting a spell ".

However, this basic beat can be found in music of Yoruba ( in the rhythm associated with the god Obatala ), and in other musical traditions across West Africa.

These early performers drew great inspiration from Yoruba Sakara music style ( using the sakara drum but without the violin-like goje instrument — which is normally played with an accompanying fiddle ).

He managed to give off a vibe of class, though Fuji music was more popular amongs Yoruba Muslims, as opposed to Juju music.

Category: Yoruba music

Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion.

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.

Yoruba people | Yoruba bronze head sculpture, Ife, Nigeria c. 12th century A. D.

A bronze cast head from the city of Ife produced in the late 11th-14th century shows the artistic advancement of the medieval Yoruba people | Yoruba.

One of some 40 shrines to Oshun | Ọṣun ( the Yoruba love goddess ) in the Osun-Osogbo | Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther | Samuel Crowther's Yorùbá grammar led to Standard Yoruba becoming a literary language.

Early 20th century Yoruba religion | Yoruba divination board

File: Early 20th century Yoruba peoples Diviner's bag. jpg | Early 20th century Yoruba Diviner's bag, from the Oyo region, Nigeria.

Omele ako, batá and two talking drum | dundun s. Yoruba drummers in Kwara state.

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

* Sakara drum, an instrument played by the Yoruba and Hausa peoples of Nigeria.

Obey began experimenting with Yoruba percussion style and expanding on the band by adding more drum kits, guitars and talking drums.

* The Yoruba talking drum

The drum dates back roughly 500 years, and is believed to have been introduced by a Yoruba king named Shangó el rey del tambor.

The leader of a dundun ensemble is the oniyalu who uses the drum to " talk " by imitating the tonality of Yoruba.

A great deal of Yoruba drum music is based in cross rhythm.

One example is Eshu, a trickster god from Yoruba mythology who deliberately fostered violence between groups of people for his own amusement, saying that " causing strife is my greatest joy.

One of these albums was 1998's Odu, a collection of traditional Yoruba songs, with which he was nominated for the second Grammy Award and thus making him the first African to be nominated twice for a Grammy.

One of the lessons of the internecine Yoruba wars was the opening of Yorubaland to Fulani hegemony whose major interest was the imposition of sultanistic despotism on Old Oyo Ile and present-day Ilorin.

One clear example in Jamaica is the Kumina deity Shango, which is a Yoruba deity who in Jamaica became a deity accepted by different African ethnic groups.

One of his main interests was the Yoruba tradition ( predominantly out of western Nigeria ) which is one of the Ancient African Religions underlying Santeria ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ), Candomble ( Bahia, Brazil ) and Vodun ( Haiti ).

The number 16 holds important significance in Yoruba mythology as it was the purported number of original divinities that established life on earth.

Africans were brought to Charleston on the Middle Passage, first as servants, then as slaves, especially Wolof, Yoruba, Fulani, Igbo, Malinke, and other peoples of the Windward Coast.

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.

* OsunPriestess. com Yeye Siju Osunyemi, information about Osun and other Orisa, Yoruba culture and religion.

There is much controversy concerning him and his place in the Yoruba pantheon, and consensus on the subject is as elusive as it is with any other " creation myth ".

Oduduwa is considered as the first of the contemporary dynasty of kings of Ife, a figure who sent his sons and daughters out with crowns to rule over all of the other Yoruba kingdoms, which is why all royal Yoruba lineages claim ambilineal descent from its line of kings and, through it, from Oduduwa.

There are three main ethnic groups and languages in Kogi: Igala, Ebira, and Okun ( part of Yoruba ) with other minorities like Bassa, a small fraction of Nupe mainly in Lokoja, Gwari, Kakanda, Oworo people ( similar to Yoruba ), ogori magongo and the Eggan community under Lokoja Local Government.

It is often difficult to distinguish between pre-Muslim practices and later practices, though Islamic law classified them and many other ethnicities of the region, ( Mossi, Gurma, Bobo, Busa and the Yoruba ) as being within the non-canon dar al-harb and consequently fair game for slave raids organized by merchants.

* Yoruba ( known as Lucumi in Cuba ), the language of the Yoruba people, brought to the New World by African slaves, and preserved in Santería, Candomblé, and other transplanted African religions.

Changeling draws primarily from Gaelic mythology, particularly stories of the sidhe and Tuatha Dé Danann, but also uses mythology and folklore from various other cultures including Native American nations, Greece, India and Yoruba mythology of Africa.

The Ramona and Jay Ward Collection of African Masks is another permanent collection and includes masks of the Yoruba, Senufo, and other West African peoples.

It is important not to confuse the meaning and usage of the Yoruba term iyawò ( bride in Yoruba ) with other African derived religions that use the same term with different meanings.

Together with other cultural groups from the Fon homeland region such as the Yoruba and Bantu, Fon culture merged with French, Portuguese or Spanish to produce distinct religions ( Voodoo, Mami Wata, Candomblé and Santería ), dance and musical styles ( Arará, Yan Valu ).

As a result Osogbo increased in population largely due to migration from other Yoruba towns.

For instance, the eminent Yoruba author James Johnson wrote in one of the most detailed early descriptions of Ifa that " Whenever this should be the case, a woman would receive from a Babalawo only one Ikin or Consecrated Palm nut called Eko, which she would carry about her body for her protection, and whenever divination should recommend and prescribe to her sacrifice to Ifa, she would, for the time being, hand over her Eko either to her husband or to her brother, or any other male relative according to prescription, who would include it in his own Ikins for the purpose of the worship and sacrifice in which she would participate.

Consequently, the Yoruba were the first group in Nigeria to adopt Western bureaucratic social norms and they provided the first African civil servants, doctors, lawyers, and other technicians and professionals.

Though for a large part based on the Ọyọ and Ibadan dialects, Standard Yoruba incorporates several features from other dialects.