Akinleye
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Akinleye
@mackee_F
Historian | Linguist | Africanist. I make history and social commentary.

It is the minority that rule the world. An organised ethnic minority will rule the majority till eternity.








A friend of mine was not allowed to name her first child because they don’t want her tribe name. Her husband single handedly picked the English name, the mother-in-law picked Igbo name and she wanted to pick an uhrobo name as she was urhobo but was told she cannot because they don’t want the child to bear an urhobo name . She insisted on picking an English name but was told the child cannot have two English names. That was how she never got to name a child she carried and birthed.


Otedola left his birthplace in Ibadan to use Lekki to prove he can ride his bicycle in Nigeria too 🤣🤣🤣

Ethnonyms for the Yoruba by different people: Yarawa - Kanuri Yarbanko'en/Yurubabe - Fulani Yarabawa/Ayagi - Hausa Yarbankye - Songhai Yurubawi - Arab Eyagi/Yarbanci - Nupe Iyaji - Igala Iyaji/Yoruba - Igbo And Yorùbá, Olùkumi by Yoruba themselves Add the ones you may know

The bantu migration is actually a myth


So I asked Grok what the first daughter is called in Yoruba… Ọ̀ṣìkẹ́ Anyone here with good Yoruba knowledge can help confirm this?









