The study is a contribution to the development of yoruba literary genre as it increases the corpus of oriki investigation and collection among the yoruba. My name is toluwase asubiaro, a medical librarian at the e. Early themes in literature include the yoruba peoples history and oral traditions. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots marcus garvey. Pauls college, monrovia, liberia a recent article on prayer in the traditional religion of the yoruba people of west africa quotes with approval the complaint made by shorter in 1975 that insufficient attention has been given to the prayers of african traditional religion generally. Tode eyinkule osile todi abata, iran asakeke o gbudo bumu be ni iran ababaja o gbudo buwese, oni soboro niyo mumi odo naa gbe. Gospel mix 80 yoruba gospel praise busysinging gospel. According to the yoruba historian samuel johnson, the oriki is an attributive descriptive, one that expresses what a child is or what he or she is hoped to become. This blog is a collection of my research and oriki. A yoruba, whether male or female, goes through life as an integral part of hisher society. Understanding sexuality in the yoruba culture professor olugboyega alaba dept. Although traditional yoruba music was not influenced by foreign music the same cannot be said of modernday yoruba music which has evolved and adapted itself through contact with foreign instruments, talents and creativity. Oriki yoruba praise poetry ekimogun descendant united. Home oriki of yoruba kingdoms oriki of yoruba kingdoms.
Listen or download free 80 yoruba praise by gospel mixtape. This landmark reference work emphasizes yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The vast majority of this population is from nigeria, where the yoruba make up 16% of the countrys population, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in africa. Oriki is an important and cultural, but unwritten oral genre of yoruba literature that is usually used in praise singing. The ijebu people are very enterprising, shrewd businesslike and agriculturalist yoruboidspeaking people that forms a subset of the larger yoruba ethnic group, inhabiting the southcentral part of yorubaland in southwestern nigeria. The yoruba constitute about 44 million people in total. Translation memories are created by human, but computer aligned, which might cause mistakes. A journal of contemporary research, 92, 8996, 2012. If a male, it is always expressive of something heroic, brave or strong. Oriki dominowiki is heavily reliant on javascript but you appear to be using a browser that doesnt support javascript, or you have javascript disabled. This book takes the inclusive energy of ifa to a new level by offering simple, comparative excerpts from religious texts from differing religions, even a list of chakras and their yoruba counterparts.
We created this site to provide information for clients who are interested in our divination reading services, we explain the importance of ifa divination and what it is and is not. Oriki is also used as means of identifying the different clans of yoruba, to understand peoples lineages and pedigrees and for persuasion which is one of its basic uses. Over one million legal mp3 tracks available at juno download. Olofa of offa palace offa is a city located in kwara state with a population of about 100,000 inhabitants. Look up a word, add or modify an entry, and learn words at your own rhythm from a personal learning list. Find free music mp3s to download and listen online. Find out more in this intriguing movie featuring odunlade adekola. Scrobble while you listen and get recommendations on new music youll love, only from. The handbook of yoruba religious concepts ifa karade. Omo olodo kan otara, omo olodo to n san wereke to n san wereke. Yoruba music is regarded as one of the more important components of the modern nigerian popular music scene. Yoruba language and culture is quite enduring and deep, evidence by the fact that close to two hundred years after slavery the culture and language survives in some parts of the americas. Download in yoruba englishyoruba dictionary glosbe. Topics yoruba language collection opensource language english.
Download our free dictionary for windows or android and browse both the yorubaenglish and the englishyoruba lists. Posts about itumo oruko yoruba written by adejokeiyabadan. Nigeria cultural music and poem for every yoruba state. Oriki yoruba latest 2014 movie oriki yoruba latest 2014 movie ayandotun is a learned rich young man who is exposed to foreign culture. Ibadan majamaja bii tojo kininni, eyi too ja aladuugbo gbogbo logun, ibadan ki ba ni sore ai mu ni lo sogun. Fagunwa, wrote and published obgoju ode ninu igbo irunmole which is the first full novel in this language. Free englishyoruba dictionary and translator freelang. English words for ile include house, home, building, shelter, hale, homes, homewards, homey, zada and hothead.
People have been waiting for this movie to come online and here it is, brought to you by tiwani for more interesting yoruba. Oriki is the combination of the heroic act or the ancestors of an individual and it is also a means to remind an individual of the clan and lineage that the person came from and its pedigree. This work will be of immense value to scholars of literary studies and other fields. Ibadan beere ki o too wo o, ni bi ole gbe n jare olohun. Ounje ajeku part 2 latest nigerian 2020 yoruba movie. Welcome to ile eko asa yoruba ni new orleans the institute for the study of yoruba and west african culture in new orleans. Please rectify this situation before attempting to use dominowiki, otherwise youll be very disappointed. Latunde odeku medical library, college of medicine, university of ibadan, nigeria where i am presently on study. Oriki is a brief genre that the yoruba typically use to inspire themselves. Iya ni wura a yoruba lullaby by abimbola alao, released 08 june 2014 iya ni wura lyrics in yoruba iya ni wura iyebiye ti a ko le fowo ra o loyun mi fosu mesan o pon mi fodun meta iya mo ki o ku ise o iya ku itoju mi iya ni wura lyrics in english mother you are a precious gem that money cannot buy.
Oriki ileife ileife, the cradle of the yorubas this lineage is dedicated to our ife members. If a female, it is a term of endearment or of praise. The yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the united states, nigeria, europe, and brazil. Download and enjoy 80 yoruba gospel praise posted under. The yoruba people have very rich cultural oral literature, oriki is on of them. Whatever good things are eaten in the realm of the ancestors please partake. It is often in poetic form and consists of songs of praise. Ogun lakaaye osin mole,onile kangunkangun ode orun, kolominile fejewe, kolaso nile ofi imokimo bora bi aso, ogun alada meji, onfi ikan lana, onfi ekeji sanko, olejeleje tiida omo eranko nitan, yankan bi ogbe ejo omo owere, koriko odo tiiru minimini, ogun kolaso meji mariwo laso ogun, aso alaso logun ngba bora. Heshe plays the roles assigned to heshe by nature and by the society in.