THE DECEDENT OF OOTU IFE
DECEDENT OF OOTU IFE
The Decedent of Oodua knowns as Yoruba in today's world our one of the Oldest Tribes in the world, also you can find them all around the world due to the historical documentary we know now some are taken away from their land with force also according to our oral history live for us by our forefathers some of our people left their fatherland and create their own nation. But due to the political game of world power, some of the histories are not told also in the area history book of today.
The Yorùbá people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá) are an African ethnic group that inhabits western Africa. The Yoruba constitute about 44 million people in total. The majority of this population is from Nigeria, where the Yorùbá makes up 21% of the country's population, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native, first language speakers. The Yorùbá share borders with the very closely related Ishekiri to the south-east in the North West Niger delta, Bariba to the north in Benin and Nigeria, the Nupe also to the north and the Ebira to the northeast in central Nigeria. To the east are the Edo, Ẹsan and the Afemai groups in mid-western Nigeria. Adjacent to the Ebira and Edo groups are the related Igala people found in the northeast, on the left bank of the Niger River. To the southwest is the Gbe speaking Mahi, Gun, Fon, and Ewe who border Yoruba communities in Benin and Togo. To the southeast is Ishekiri who lives in the north-west end of the Niger delta. They are ancestrally related to the Yoruba but chose to maintain a distinct cultural identity. Significant Yoruba populations in other West African countries can be found in Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone.
The Yoruba diaspora consists of two main groupings; one of them includes relatively recent migrants, the majority of which moved to the United Kingdom and the United States after major economic and political changes in the 1960s to 1980s. The other dates to the Atlantic slave trade and has communities in the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Brazil, Grenada,[16] and Trinidad and Tobago, and other countries.
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Traditional systems know as the Monarchic System of government in Yorubaland, but they were not the only approach to government and social organization. The numerous Ijebu city and states to the west of Oyo and the Ẹgba communities, found in the forests below Ọyọ's savanna region, were notable exceptions. These independent polities often elected a Ọba, though real political, legislative, and judicial powers resided with the Ogboni, a council of notable elders. The notion of the divine king was so important to the Yoruba, however, that it has been part of their organization in its various forms from their antiquity to the contemporary era.
Traditionally kingship and chieftainship were not determined by simple primogeniture, as in most monarchic systems of government. An electoral college of lineage heads was and still is usually charged with selecting a member of one of the royal families from any given realm, and the selection is then confirmed by an Ifá oracular request.