How Colonialism, Christianity and Western education influenced Yoruba Muslims By Bashir Arowojobe Theoretically, in any social construct, when two cultures come into contact, there are a number of outcomes, as observed by Yinger (1963). One- complete domination by the other, Read more…
I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken Read more…
Last week’s column on the enduring symbolic, cultural, and economic violence against Yoruba Muslims in spite of strategically romanticized and hyperbolized media narratives of unexampled religious ecumenicalism in Yorubaland has stirred a profusion of impassioned responses that invite one last Read more…
Most Nigerians are known for being religious and ethnically oriented in their approach to various endeavours. The Yoruba are predominant in the South West, and comprise about 21 percent of the population. The Yoruba are one of the more religiously Read more…
