The Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has disputed the claim that Ile-Ife is the origin of the Yoruba race. The royal father said the culture of the race is not in the ancient town ...

Atunto, a global Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has strongly condemned recent claims suggesting that the Igbo people once occupied Ile-Ife, the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba. In a statement ...

The royal father revealed that Ghanians had traced their lineage to Aga-Ako in Ile-Ife and that Ethiopians are sons and daughters of Oramiya in Okerewe. Ooni disclosed this on Saturday during the ...

A race of giants. The Yoruba had been producing monumental men and women long before Nigeria became a country. Professor Adelola Adeloye’s ‘African Pioneers of Modern Medicine’ (1985) has a list of ...

Apparently miffed by what it described as calculated efforts to rewrite the history of the famed Yoruba heritage, a group under the aegis of Think Yoruba First Ogo Adulawo Socio-Cultural Association ...

SloweGanzi International proudly presents ÀṢÉ10: A Reign of Peace, Culture & Unity, a Pan-African cultural festival dedicated to celebrating Yoruba heritage, inspiring global reconnection, and ...

The consolidation of power by the Alaafin of Oyo in the late seventeenth century and the rise of the Oyo Empire prefigured the spread of Oyo's influence and its dominance of Yoruba history for the ...