Ancient Ilẹ̀-Ifẹ̀ reminds us that greatness is not new to us,it is our inheritance as Yorùbá people. Long before the modern age, our ancestors built a civilisation whose artistic and cultural achievements continue to inspire admiration across the world🫡🫡🫡
@frankonX_ North Africans:
> do something 3000 years ago
> get repeatedly conquered by external powers up until 60 years ago
> try to gain approximation to europe
> become a shithole
“we’re better than black africans!”
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀
We are familiar with the names of many historical personages in Yorùbaáland, viz. Odùduwà, Ọ̀ṣun, Ọbàtálá, Ògún, Olôkun, Ṣànǹgó, Ọbàlùfọ̀n, and countless others (almost all of whom are thought in the Yorùbá theology to have a primordial divine existence, of which the historical is an incarnate)
However, it appears we have no idea what any of these historical figures looked like — except for a few that can be reasonably confidently identified on the basis of original received information from the custodians (who have always kept images) & from contexts associated with unearthed images
In fact, beyond merely staring at a physical image with a name; the modern Yorùbá today should be confident that the face they’re staring at below is indeed what the actual face of the bearer of that name looked like when they walked the earth. All thanks to the Yorùbá art style they were made in, viz. naturalism/realism. It’s basically like looking back in time; and it is unique in all of black Africa.
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟭: Ọbàtálá, aka. Òrìṣà, aka. Òrìṣà-Ńlá, etc.
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟮: Ọ̀sángangan-Ọbamakin, aka. Ọbàlùfọ̀n-Ògbógbódirin, aka. Ọbàlùfọ̀n-Ògbógbódirin 1.
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟯: Ọbàlùfọ̀n-Aláyémọrẹ, aka. Ọbàlùfọ̀n 2.
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟰: Lájùwà (The chief chamberlain to Ọ̀ọ̀ni Àwórókọ̀lọ̀kín)
Cheers‼️🥂
Texas creeps indicted in wild plot to invade tiny island to kill the men and use women and children as ‘their sex slaves’: feds https://t.co/JGBvJ5qYXX
Yoruba cavalry has been regularly depicted in carved art. It's a shame that, much like the artistic heights of our older kingdoms, you won't see them properly shown in media.