Within the Yoruba contexts we call them “Yoruba buts”. They are leftists who I categorise as canon fodders of revolution and hostile takeovers of any society.
The leftists helped the Ayatollah to grab power in Iran.
The leftists organised the protests that made Al Nusra front take over Syria.
The leftists organised the protests that brought RSF power into Khartoum as the deputy leader of Sudan.
The leftists are good in organising protests and revolution but they are tools of power grab, nothing more all over the world the pattern remains the same.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote about this in his autobiography of how Zik and his fellow Zikist supremacists weaponised Yoruba hate and made anti Yoruba policies a tool of mass mobilisation and propaganda in Yorubaland against Yoruba people.
Awolowo wrote it in his book that many Yoruba youths were recruited and radicalized this way and they became hateful of their Yoruba identity and history.
What the NCNC caucus did was a war of extermination against the Yoruba people in the first republic.
The Obidient movement also did the same thing in 2023 elections where they turned Yoruba hate and attack on Yoruba culture and value system as a means of political mobilisation. To be part of the Obidient movement, you must be sympathetic to Igbo nationalism, hate Yoruba identity and history and propagate a detribalized ideology against your own people before you can be seen as patriotic and “nice”.
The Hausa people were told the same thing by the conquering Fulanis. They were told that Hausa civilization and culture is evil and believed it which was why they killed their leaders and accepted Fulani leaders in the name of Fulani Puritanism. They did the same thing in Ilorin against the Yoruba people. Yoruba civilisation is bad but Islamic civilisation led by Fulanis is supreme???
CRV and his Igbo nationalists friends also used the same pattern as a means of political campaign in Lagos state in 2023 against the Yoruba people by attacking Yoruba language and identity when they said Yoruba civilisation and identity is useless in good governance in Yorubaland and many young Yorubas accepted it.
Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics is with bloodshed.
IBOS DENIGRATING YORUBAS ON LIVE
They said their ibo women are intentionally marrying rich Yoruba men to murder them and take over their properties
We own Ile Ife; Yorubas chased us away from Ile Ife
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The Southeast records about 30% of its population suffering multidimensional poverty, almost three times the rate in the Southwest.
And multidimensional poverty is far worse than income poverty.
Income poverty concerns how much money you have. Multidimensional poverty concerns how much of a decent life you are denied, even when money is available.
It encompasses deprivation in access to quality education, adequate healthcare, electricity, clean drinking water, proper sanitation, decent housing, and other essentials required for a dignified and productive existence.
In simple terms, a man may have money in his pocket but still live in a society that empties his life of possibilities. For what is the worth of a fat bank account when the environment around you is too starved of basic infrastructure to sustain a decent life?
Therefore, in the Southeast, 30% of their supposedly rich uncles and ambitious poor relatives live in a system that denies them sufficient access to quality education, adequate healthcare, electricity, clean drinking water, proper sanitation, livable housing or even a decent atmosphere to breathe safe oxygen.
And when those wealthy uncles desire a semblance of a decent environment in which to live, invest, raise their children, or enjoy the fruits of their labour, Where do you think they flee to?
- The Southwest.
When the ambitious young lads you mentioned seek better opportunities, quality education, productive economic environments, and the infrastructure that may transform their dreams into tangible realities, where do you think they escape to?
- The Southwest.
Now, I must ask, What is the collective value of private wealth and individual ambition when the society that produces them cannot adequately convert either into collective prosperity?
It is from home that one prepares to adorn oneself for the outside world - Ilé la n ti ń kẹ́ṣọ́ ròde
Your rich and your poor alike continue to depend on opportunities, infrastructure, markets, and institutions that the Southwest has spent generations building and expanding. And much of that development has been sustained by the contributions of people across social classes, including the very people you describe as entitled.
We do not begrudge anyone their wealth. We do not resent anyone's ambition. Nor do we claim a monopoly on progress.
We simply demand the basic: if the wealth of your rich uncles must grow through the markets and opportunities we provide, let their conscience grow alongside their fortunes. Let ambition be accompanied by responsibility, and let commerce be governed by the fear of God and respect for human life.
Do not poison the very society that sustains your prosperity with counterfeit, adulterated, or substandard consumables. Do not turn another man's quest for profit into another family's funeral.
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Theme: The Battle for West Africa: Echoes from the Songhai & Oyo Empires
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Yorubas don't copy, they create.
Yorùbás don't do culture appropriation, they invent.
Yorùbás don't brag, instead they keep records.
Yorùbás are contented with their culture.
Yorùbá cultures are 100% docummented
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Oreoluwa Green was the first female Pharmacist in West Africa. She was born in Lagos in 1885 and was educated at the CMS Girls Seminary, St Mary’s Convent School in Lagos and private tuition under Reverend W.B Euba, where she excelled in Mathematics, Greek, Latin and Geometry, she was fluent in English, French and Latin, and was also a gifted actress, who famously played the part of Portia in a production of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” in Lagos in June and July 1911.
She then travelled to London in 1912, for further education and obtained a First Class Certificate in the Theory of Music from the London College of Music, Certificate of Central Midwives Board, Honours Certificate from the Clapham School of Midwifery and Clapham Maternity Hospital. She was the first West African woman to obtain a practical pharmaceutical qualification when she acquired the Apothecaries Certificate of the Pharmaceutical Society of London and in 1916 acquired her Certificate of Westminster College of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Botany when she successfully passed her qualifying examinations as a Licensed Druggist.
She worked as a Dispenser at the Soho Eye and Ear Hospital in London, before returning to Lagos, in 1917, where she first worked as a Midwife at the hospital of Dr. Richard Akinwande Savage (1874–1935). In a bid to contribute more to Lagos and its people, Green later set up her own establishment and practiced as a Nurse and Pharmacist at 71, Campbell Street, Lagos.
Nurse Green, as she was fondly called, was a highly accomplished, well-read and cultured lady who did not hesitate to express the outstanding talents she was endowed with
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