Scents have always played an integral part in Ope Dina’s life. Growing up in a Yoruba household with Nigerian parents, she was used to the smells of incense and spices. Dina was also exposed to the ...

In Nigeria, stereotypes don’t just live in jokes and social media banter, they shape how people see and treat women. Many of these harmful ideas are tied to ethnic identities, meaning that a Yoruba ...

“Ikùn,” I repeat, pointing to the illustration of a brown stomach under a turquoise shirt on the page before us. My daughter mimics the picture by raising her top and revealing her tummy. She pokes ...

Canada-Based Nigerian woman, Amaka Patience Sunnberger, is in the eye of the storm after vowing to harm Yoruba or Benin individuals she encounters. Her diatribe coincides with Canada’s latest decision ...

She calls herself a ‘Yorupreneur’. For Damilola Adebonojo, who is based in the United States, Yoruba is more than a language. It has become a passion and business that has taken her places. Adebonojo ...

Charles Novia believes Yoruba women might just have the biggest butts in the world. He makes a satirical write up this time around describing how the Yoruba women of Western Nigeria are so endowed ...

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Family size was an indicator of family wealth and wellbeing until the latest hypothesis linking larger family size and poverty. This paper juxtaposed the family size and poverty hypothesis and ...

The President, Yoruba Council Worldwide, Aare Oladotun Hassan has condemned the threat made by a Canada-based woman, Amaka Sunnberger, against Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin descent. In a video clip ...

The twenty-first century ushered in a new era in African popular culture. Hip hop, a popular genre of musical expression, which borrowed extensively from Western and African idioms and iconography of ...

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