The Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has disputed the claim that Ile-Ife is the origin of the Yoruba race. The royal father said the culture of the race is not in the ancient town ...

The recurring question, dramatic and enduring, finds fresh energy in the alleged clash of supremacy between the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the ...

Atunto, a global Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has strongly condemned recent claims suggesting that the Igbo people once occupied Ile-Ife, the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba. In a statement ...

Ilorin rsquo;s history is neither fragmented nor incomplete, and it cannot be truthfully written through selective memory, ...

EJO ki i se tiaraeniki a ma mo da (One must be honest with oneself, even when judgement is uncomfortable). Any fair reflection on the present controversy surrounding the Alaafin’s place within ...

The royal father revealed that Ghanians had traced their lineage to Aga-Ako in Ile-Ife and that Ethiopians are sons and daughters of Oramiya in Okerewe. Ooni disclosed this on Saturday during the ...

Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Writing A New History -- part II. Birth of the Yoruba Community of Practice, circa 300 BC-AD 1420 -- 2. The Emergence Of A House Society -- 3. Knowledge Capital And ...

What happened to all their previous claims? Before now, Igbos claimed that their ancestral origin was Nri where their mythical ancestral father, Eri, descended from with a chain many a millennia ago.