Who is the Yoruba Ooni Yoruba Creation of the World
There is scientific
understanding of how the world was created and then there is social folklore. West African Yoruba Creation of the World
African Folktale explains in the beginning how the land was formed on earth.
Yoruba Creation of the World African Folklore
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Who is the Yoruba Ooni
The Yoruba are one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, also living in Benin and northern Togo. Yoruba have traditionally been among the most skilled and productive artisans of Africa. The Ooni of Ife is the traditional head and is highly revered amongst the Yoruba.
The Ooni of Ife is the traditional head and is highly revered amongst
the Yoruba.
As descendants of Oduduwa, the first
king of Ile-Ife who is believed to have been a demi-God who descended from
heaven to create the earth, the Oonis are considered sacred. In the
southwestern state of Osun that is considered the ancestral and spiritual home
of Nigeria's second-largest ethnic group, the Yoruba.
The third son in a family
of six children, the current king, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi a 42-year-old former
businessman was selected from 21 contenders to the throne in 2015. He's a
descendant of the 44th Ooni of Ife, Ojaja Orasigba, who reigned from 1878 to
1880. Needless to say, the process of selecting an Ooni is complex.
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