It’s 2025 and women are STILL being bullied online just for existing in their own skin… it's insane !!!! instead of evolving, it feels like people are only getting worse..... 💔
There is an Ongoing Cyberwarfare on Yoruba History and Culture
The majority of Yoruba historical books, linguistic texts, and archives are physically stored in libraries and AI CANNOT READ THEM. So it scrapes data from Wikipedia, senseless blogs and social media posts.
Revisionists have been editing Wikipedia pages to slip in false claims about Yoruba history and for a while we’ve been on the defensive, monitoring and reacting to these edits and locking those pages using verifiable citations.
However, I think it is time we take the offense by:
- Pushing for mass digitisation of Yoruba history books in print
- Encouraging Yoruba authors to create digital formats as well
- Writing SEO optimised articles on Yoruba culture and customs
- Correcting people or AI systems when you see misinformation
- Pressuring our traditional rulers to debunk misinformation and protect our culture
I wonder if this is something we can pressure the government for, esoecially the digitisation of books. We need this urgently.
and responded rather harshly in these words “ we bought all your land and will resell to you” . i have always been baffled at how hostile certain factions have been towards igbos when it comes to developing areas outside the south east. i apologize if you found my comments brash
@yankeeplug_ You are being disingenuous.
3 days visit isn’t the same as cohabitation.
Your logic only applies if the person is staying for weeks on end, but 3 days is a visit, that’s your guest, you shouldn’t let them cook
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I said it, you people won’t see draw!
This is exactly how important conversations get derailed. Instead of discussing whether the festival deserves global recognition, economic value, cultural preservation, tourism potential, and international visibility, the focus has become who stood in front of a camera and who mentioned Yoruba enough times.
If UNESCO eventually recognizes it, visitors are not coming because someone’s great grandfather was from Ijebu Ode. They are coming because a culture was documented, preserved, promoted, and presented to the world.
Sometimes people become so obsessed with ownership that they forget the actual goal is preservation and global relevance.
Anyways, you’re not speaking for me.
Sugabelly is the female Eloka.
You could praise a Yoruba food or marvel at a Yoruba system and they'd call you a tribalist, insert something else, then downplay whatever you're talking about.
Any rebuttal to her jaundiced takes and she'd call the entire tribe illiterate. OGBJ
You do not realize how weak you are as a man until you learn a combat; boxing, taekwondo, kickboxing etc
We overestimate our strengths like mad
Cus you really cannot fight!
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WHY do non-Yorubas in Lagos think they have the right to lead or represent people who aren’t their kinsmen? That seems extremely presumptuous. They know more than us?
If you want to preach against tribalism in Nigeria, use your state as an example.
Stop saying "but Yoruba can contest in US". instead, say "but YORUBA can contest in anambra"..
Use your fucking state as an example of how we should be liberal and not be tribalistic!!
Why can’t Nigerians understand that poverty intensifies ethnic conflict, but wealth does not eliminate it??
States with multiple groups do not automatically become cohesive through prosperity for heavens sake.
What writers like this fail to understand is that in the past in Nigeria, attempts to suppress ethnic identities in the name of unity have more times created the very separation that they sought to destroy. I.e Ironsi with his unification decree.
Belgium is a wealthy, educated, industrialized country. Yet for nearly two centuries, the country has struggled with deep division between its Dutch-speakers & its French-speaking ones.
Belgium has faced constitutional crisis and there are so many Flemish separatist political parties dominating National Politics.
It isn’t because Belgium doesn’t have trains, hospitals, a vibrant middle class and welfare, it is because identity transcends politics.
Or are we not paying attention to Canada?
Quebec is prosperous. It has one of the highest standard living yet doesn’t Quebec’s separation conversation come up at every election cycle?
Didn’t it almost leave in 1995? Was it because of economics?
Funny enough, there are numerous examples, Catalonia in Spain is another one. It is one of Spains richest region, what is ironic is that their own economic advancement has even strengthened their regional identity and has made them increase feelings of breaking away from the other regions not the other way around.
It makes them question why their taxes are handled at the centre. They have high speed rail, good hospitals and are integrated in the European Union.
This tweet below fails to even recognize where ethnic seperation also reduces conflicts. Czechoslovakia, Norway and Sweden are also a good examples of this.
But the major point I will focus on is, most Nigerians do not understand the issue with Nigeria and quickly run to giving solutions that massage their narrow interests.
Ethnicity or ethnic expression is simply the language through which deeper struggles are expressed or have been historically expressed in Nigeria.
When the Berom were facing mining issues during colonial Nigeria, the group which spoke for them was the Berom Progressives Union. It negotiated a better deal with the British over mining rights. It was through that tribal expression that they could convey their grievances.
People treat “tribalism” as backwardness but do not understand what actually produces it.
While I agree with the position that ethnic partition is not a magic solution, also it fails to explore the fact that countries like India and Switzerland have decentralized along ethnic and linguistic lines and it helped in reducing potential for conflict.
The fundamental problem with this take is assuming that class erases ethnic identity.
It means we did not pay attention to Lebanon where wealthy elites still organized along sectarian lines. Infact elites often weaponized it to maintain political power similar to some elite in Nigeria.