Yorubalité

Thinking Yorùbá globalité | Exploring Yoruba route to - and explaining Yoruba roots of - Globalisation.

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Yorùbá refers at once to:
- A (meta)ethnicity
- A system of spirituality
- A language.
Diverse identities generated by the Yoruba of Nigeria/Benin/Togo have contributed to birthing a variety of cultures further west of Africa, in the Caribbean, Latin America and N/America...1/6

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Egungun performance at Assatar Shakur's funeral ceremony, New York.

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Assata Shakur 1947-2025

Ọ̀kẹ́rẹ́ gorí ìrókò
Ojú ọdẹ́dá!

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@raphexkings Yes, that's 1983.

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Corpus Christi Times, Texas, December 1, 1966

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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@raphexkings @tenacious_lad You're not talking to your dad, remember? That 1940 label refers to the woman with calabash helmet on the right.

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@raphexkings 1983

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@Obinrinism @FranciskaB @TheYorubaTimes @ProudlyYoruba @cent_haysmall @ThinkYoruba_1st 👇🏼

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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@Profmosun 👇🏼

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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Gèlè is Gèlè. Names are how a culture keeps credit for what it made. Lose the name, and in one generation nobody remembers where it came from. #GeleIsGele

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@theOlaBola 👇🏼

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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@yorubachic 👇🏼

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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@yorubazza 👇🏼

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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Thread Part 4:

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Thread Part 4:

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia. 11 June 1995.

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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MS magazine, Arlington, Virginia, Oct/Nov, 1999.

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Thread Part 4:

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia. 11 June 1995.

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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Philadelphia Tribune, Pennsylvania, 16 Mar 1999

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Thread Part 3:

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Thread Part 3:

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia. 11 June 1984.

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The Courier-News, Bridgewater, New Jersey. 18 Aug 1993

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Thread Part 3:

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia. 11 June 1984.

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The easy charm & generosity of spirit through which Yoruba culture has been shared with the world is well documented; erasure attempts are not just ethically challenged but practically impossible.

Gèlè in the eyes of the world (a thread)

Redbook magazine, New York, May 1971

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Essence magazine, New York, Vol. 24, Iss. 4, Aug 1993.