Pax Yoruba

The Yoruba Journal ✒️

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Adúmáradán is a praise in Yoruba culture for a reason. A culture that was never colorist.

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Yoruba Geometry and Indigenous Patterns used in Architecture:

Frame One: Image of Various Yoruba Doors from Nigeria.

Frame Two: Image of an Homestead in Akoko, Nigeria.

Hopefully we modernize and apply them in today’s Buildings.

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The Yoruba people were Africa's most urbanised group throughout the colonial period.

Around 22% of the population lived in cities with populations of 100,000 or more, while over 50% lived in cities with populations of 25,000 or more.

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Fact:

The Yoruba tribe of West Africa have the highest rate of twin births in the world 🌎

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Yoruba Couples Do It Best 🎖️

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Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye rocking Grace Ladoja Nike designed shoe.

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Some 1950s photographs capturing beautiful young women from Western and Okun-Yoruba (KOGI) in the Northern Nigerian Region proudly displaying different styles of Gèle.

In those days the Gele was fashion and symbolized pride, maturity, beauty and tradition.

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Listen to how happy this African American was when he found out that he was from the Yoruba people.

“I was praying please please God, don’t let me be ibo. Nothing but Canibals”

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This was the tenure of Tinubu & Fashola when they started the Eko Atlantic project in 1999 to 2007.

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A Yoruba woman awaits the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II of England in Lagos, during her tour of Nigeria, February 1956.

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The 1964 interview where Ahmadu Bello spoke about welcoming immigrants.

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"Non-Yorubas Cannot Come from Faraway to Deprive Us"

"In-laws or not, we will resist them"

- APC leader in Oshodi-Isolo, Otunba Henry Ajomale, issuing a strong warning to non-Yorubas eyeing political control of the area.

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January 1955 before Nigerian independence:

Awolowo was already introducing free healthcare up till the age of 18 as well as free & mandatory primary education in Western Nigeria which includes Lagos, Abeokuta, Ondo, Oyo, Ibadan, Ijebu, Benin and Delta.

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A photograph of Oba Samuel Ademola II arriving in England for the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.

At a time when many parts of the world were still developing, Yoruba royalty was already engaging on the global stage with dignity and distinction.

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Restored version of a home in Ikare from the early 20th century.

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GÈLÈ.

Frame One: 🇧🇷Brazilian Yoruba Woman from Bahia Rocking the Gèlè, Pele, Ìró and Bùbá of the Culture-1800s.

Frame Two: 🇳🇬Nigerian Yoruba Lady Rocking the Gèlè, Pele, Ìró and Bùbá of the Culture-1900s.

Two Continents, one culture.

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Yoruba women are Royal. 💜🖤

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Yoruba people in 1960 at the time of independence.

For the Yoruba, the journey had already begun years earlier. By 1956, Awolowo and the Action Group had driven the Western Region to full self-government — free primary education, modern infrastructure.

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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

— Nelson Mandela

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This is gèlè, invented and made by the Yorùbás in Yorubaland.