Yoruba Sentence Examples

An official newspaper is published in the Yoruba and English languages.

Abeokuta is the headquarters of the Yoruba branch of the Church Missionary Society, and British and American missionaries have met with some success in their civilizing work.

Kreo is equally influenced by French, Portugese, Yoruba and other local languages.

Here he devoted himself to the preparation of school-books, and the translation of the Bible and Prayer-Book into Yoruba and other dialects.

See the publications of the Church Missionary Society dealing with the Yoruba Mission; Col.

It was carried at the point of the bayonet by the Yoruba troops, who proved themselves fully equal to the Hausa.

Besides the people of Benin, the coast tribes include the Jekri, living on the lower part of the Benin river and akin to the Yoruba, the Ijos, living in the delta east of the main mouth of the Niger, and the Ibos, occupying a wide tract of country just above the delta and extending for loo m.

Its inhabitants are of various tribes, among which the Yoruba now predominate.

Illorin is a great trading centre, Hausa caravans bringing goods from central Africa, and merchandise from the coasts of the Mediterranean, which is distributed from Illorin to Dahomey, Benin and the Lagos hinterland, while from the Guinea coast the trade is in the hands of the Yoruba and comes chiefly through Lagos.

The town of Illorin was founded, towards the close of the 18th century, by Yoruba, and rose to be the capital of one of the Yoruba kingdoms. About 1825 the kingdom, which had come under Mahommedan influence, ceased its connexion with the Yoruba states and became an emirate of the Sokoto empire.

The Fula, however, maintained the Yoruba system of government, which places the chief power in a council of elders.

Here, amidst great linguistic confusion, may be distinguished the tribes of Yoruba speech in the Niger delta and the east portion of the Slave Coast; those of Ewe speech, in the western portion of the latter; and those of Ga and Tshi speech, on the Gold Coast.

Labour might be brought from Yorubaland close by, and a Yoruba colony has been experimentally started.

This practice, called syncretism, resulted in the Yoruba derived religion Santeria that is practiced today.

The country's official language is English, but tribal languages such as Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo) and Fulani are commonly used.

Did you know that the Yoruba tribe in West Africa has the highest rate of twin pregnancies in the world?

There are a number of mosques in the town, and the Mahommedans are the dominant power, but the Yoruba, who constitute the bulk of the people, are pagans.

Ibadan is the capital of one of the Yoruba states and enjoys a large measure of autonomy.