Yoruba Historically the Yoruba people have been the dominant group on the west bank of the Niger.

Individuals in many such Diasporic communities have joined the Egbe Omo Yoruba society, a national association of Yoruba descendants in North America.

The Yoruba continue to be the most urbanised African ethnic group today.

Add the hashtag MotherLanguage Add the hashtag of the language (i.e. Lakota, Yoruba)

This was the hub of the empire, where the Yoruba spoke the Oyo dialect.

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire of what is today western and northern Nigeria.

For over a century, the Yoruba state had expanded at the expense of its neighbors.

They came from different ethnic groups the Lukumí, Carabalí, Congo, Ganga, Mandingo, Mina, Bibi and Yoruba.

A minority of the population practice religions indigenous to Nigeria, such as those native to Igbo and Yoruba peoples.

The country is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups, of which the three largest are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

Cavalry The Oyo Empire was the only Yoruba state to adopt cavalry it did so because most of its territory was in the northern savannah.

Since political independence in 1960, politics has revolved round Nigeria s major ethnic groups the Igbo and Yoruba in the south, and the Hausa and Fulani in the north.

Clapperton continued his journey, and, passing through the Yoruba country, in January 1826 he crossed the Niger at Bussa, the spot where Mungo Park had died twenty years before.

Still, the fact that the post presidential election violence was contained, and that the opposition, particularly in the ACN led Yoruba South West, is now finding its feet, amounts to a sliver of hope.

What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their grandfathers.

Cohesive rituals, beliefs and organization were spread throughout the world of Yoruba (and other major African religious tribal groups such as Fon), to an extent characteristic of nations and many organized religions, not simply tribes.

But he was also in Oxford in the '50s, and yet growing up as a child in Nigeria, my father used to say to me, You must never eat or drink in a Yoruba person's house because they will poison you.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), a youth led militia in the Igbo region that campaigns for the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria, emerged in late 1999, shortly after Obasanjo, an ethnic Yoruba, took office.