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You should get some photos from wikimedia commons to enrich the article; some user has deleted some of your photos. Sankaretfree (talk) 09:38, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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You can't cite 5 old sources and claim the same numbers (as accurate as 0.1%) - choose one, recent and reliable. Materialscientist (talk) 09:04, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

1: What makes the CIA an authority on Nigeria- I cited a reference from the Nigerian ministry of Information (The fascinating Nigeria Magazine) 2: All 5 sources are coherent.

No, they are not. The fascinating Nigeria Magazine might be Ok, but it does not support your numbers (you need to look at ethnic groups, not languages). CIA Factbook is an authority. Materialscientist (talk) 09:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Not on Nigeria- The best they do is SPECULATE, because the Nigerian state itself hasn't even conducted an ethnic census in years Can you cite another source, other than the CIA- that doesn't retrieve information from the CIA itself?

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Yoruba people.

Please stop trying to change history. The Word Yoruba is originally Hausa and has no linguistic relationship with the Yoruba language. It is Hausa and has meaning in Hausa language whereas the Yoruba have no meaning for that word. The word Larabawa is originally Arabic and has meaning in Arabic whereas it doesn't have in Hausa language except for what it means in Arabic. The word Kanawa is Hausa and has meaning in the Hausa language. THEREFORE WITHOUT THAT HAUSA WORD THERE WOULD NEVER BE A YORUBA TRIBE AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. THEREFORE THANK HAUSA PEOPLE FOR THAT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppdallo (talk • contribs) 15:27, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Trying to change history how??

Your approach to Wikipedia edits is that of an ethnic supremacist and not one of a scholar, and that is vandalism.. The origin of the name Yarabawa and its Hausa connection is clearly in the wikipedia article, if you would further like the reference the Fulani sultan Muhammad Bello's earlier use of the term as a descriptive for yoruba people in the article, that is completely up to you. But it was the exonym for Oyos- not for all the others, I don't know how that is so difficult for you to understand. How the name Yaraba or Yarabawa or Yorubawa or any other variation thereof became the general name of Yorubas today is what constitutes the second part of the piece on etymology. At the beginning of the 19th century there were several competing names that were in wide usage to refer to the generality of Yoruba people. Aku was one, Yoruba was another, Anago was another, and Lukumi was yet another. In colonial documents and in records of Yorubas in the trans atlantic slavery, All these versions appeared in equal measure with Anago being the most popular until all of crowther's early groundbreaking literary works that used 'Yoruba'. Yorubas don't have Hausas to 'thank' for the existence of their ethnic group like you wrote earlier on my talkpage, because the ethnic groups didn't begin with the adoption of that name, I don't know what you are thinking. You stop trying to simplify the narrative. Ok, and in case you don't know I am an ilorin indigene who is part Pullo (Fulani)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppdallo (talk • contribs) 15:27, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, trying to change history and steal Hausa Culture

Muhammadu Bellos etnography contribution must be noted here and not only Ajayi Crowther. Hugh Clapperton requested to know what the Hausa "called the people of Oyo to their south" and he told him "Yarabawa" which was a plural of Ya raba. The alternative name Aku is Also Hausa, meaning parrot(alluding to the talkative nature of Oyo people) which the Hausa found in abundance in Oyo. Also you should know that there was never a Yoruba tribe in history, without that Hausa name all the myriads of tribes calling themselves Yoruba today would rather be known as ife, modakeke, ijebu, egba, ekun etc etc.. I see that you claim to come from Ilorin. If truly so, would you help correct all the false information on How Islam got to Yoruba land? If you don't do it i have a plan on doing it.

Yorubas have to thank the Hausa for not only giving them name but for giving them culture in terms of religion, cloth, musical instruments and Ajami literacy. WITHOUT HAUSA CLOTHING STYLE THAT THEY GAVE THE YORUBA, THEY WILL BE REDUCED TO WEARING ONLY EUROPEAN CLOTHING AS A LOT OF THEM STILL DO TODAY. Ppdallo (talk) 09:02, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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My origin as an Ilorin Person is not the same as that of being yoruba. Ilorin has a unique history in Yorubaland different from all the others. No problem if you plan on working on the history of Islam in Yorubaland as long as you have all the necessary historical references to back it up. But note that Wangara muslim traders were in Oyo for a long time as stated in the article, and Hausas and Dendi came as a second wave, and Fulbe as a third.

So now Aku means parrot because the Oyo people were talkative? At this stage, I believe you are just making things up by the way.

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My origin as an Ilorin Person is not the same as that of being yoruba. Ilorin has a unique history in Yorubaland different from all the others. No problem if you plan on working on the history of Islam in Yorubaland as long as you have all the necessary historical references to back it up. But note that Wangara muslim traders were in Oyo for a long time as stated in the article, and Hausas and Dendi came as a second wave, and Fulbe as a third.

So now Aku means parrot because the Oyo people were talkative? At this stage, I believe you are just making things up by the way.

Lets meet at Yoruba people talk page

Do you have any historical reference to back up your claim of wangara ever being in Oyo? These people were traders and i challenge you to mention one thing/item that the Oyo people were trading with northerly/Sanannah/Sahelian people much less with the Wangara. Kolanut was all the Oyo people were sending northwards and it was through the Hausa people (thats why all sahelian people knew kolanut by its hausa name of "Goro") which was the primary reason what drew the Hausa to Oyo in the first place.

I am not making things up. That is exactly the origin and connotation of the word Aku, though unfortunately derogatory but thats it.

Any body reading these two versions would not fail to realize that the older version is more precise and devoid of unnecessary words WHEREAS the new version is egotistic, unnecessarily lengthy, flowery and deliberate falsification of history by removing Muhammadu Bello's contribution while maintaining that of Clapperton and Ajayi Crowther. Also it should be noted that the area known today as Yoruba land was never united in etnicity or a particular language but rather various ethnic groupings that spoke and up till today speak different but related langauges. eg people of Kabba, Ijebu, Egba, ekiti,etc, etc. even according to the cited reference no.3 the opposition to the use of the name Yoruba, which was already popularized by Hausa usage among all Oyo people and its neighbors, (during a discussion by freed returnee slaves-Christian missionaries that landed in Sierra Leone and had never been to Yoruba land) was in favor of Aku, which as i have told you, was also of Hausa origin. Please lets DISCUSS at the talk page. Thank you. Ppdallo (talk) 19:23, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Are you not meeting up with me at Yoruba talk page?

Please also note what Peter Cohen wrote in his article, Orisha Journeys as quoted: “The concept of a single “Yorùbá” people and its baptism with the Hausa term for the inhabitants of Òyó was largely the work of liberated captives and their children returning from Sierra Leone, particularly as Protestant missionaries. The terms by which the descendants of Yorùbá-speakers are known today in the New World – “Nagô” in Brazil, “Nago” in Haiti and Jamaica, “Lucumí” in Cuba, “Akú” in Sierra Leone – emerged as meaningful categories in the context of enslavement and exile.”

This clarifies the fact that Samuel Ajayi Crowther and his colleagues did not know the area known today as Yorubaland enough to choose a name for the Yoruba except what their Hausa neighbors have already coined and popularized both inside Oyo itself and among its neighbors, which he learnt through Hugh Clapperton's book and who in turn officially learnt it from Muhammadu Bello. Therefore it would be a gross distortion of Yoruba history if Muhammadu Bello's name and contribution is expunged from the origin of their name, while retaining the contribution of even less important contributor like ajayi Crowther.Ppdallo (talk) 18:14, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Please also note that the word "exonym" as defined by wikipedia as "An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect. It is a common name used only outside the place, group, or linguistic community in question." therefore its usage in your edit is misplaced as even you yourself have noted that the name was accepted by the Oyo people themselves.Ppdallo (talk) 07:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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Ordinarily, this discussion shouldn't even be as drawn out as you are making it, but of course let us discuss all the intricacies and nitty-gritties of the subject at hand while forgoing of all assumptions and made up fables. Yes, the concept of "Yoruba people" as a monolithic social/ethnic entity was an experience that first took hold in the diaspora of the Atlantic world and was largely due to the experience of Yoruba slaves who saw their far more mutual commonalities with one another as against the backdrop of being co-existent with other African people with whom they shared far less in common than their fellow Yorubas. You only seem to be supporting everything I said before as Crowther is himself a Yoruba slave returnee by way of Sierra Leone and was a missionary. Of course they were also aware that they were people of the same stock even back in their own ethnic homeland back in Nigeria and Benin but the in-fighting and constant inter clan warfare of the time did not allow them to coalesce successfully. This is not different from the experience of most other African ethnic group of the period, including the Hausa group which you hail from who were either politically Gobirawa, Kanawa, Adarawa, Katsinawa, E.t.c before the Jihad.

Secondly; Crowther and SOME of his other colleagues clearly knew what Yoruba was and was very conversant with the area known today as "Yorubaland" since he (as well as some others) were already adults who were cognitively and developmentally aware before they were captured from their various village in the interior of Oyo (in the case of Ajayi) as well as other places such as Ijesha, Awori (Otta), Ilorin, Ogbomosho, Badagry and so forth. Crowther himself knew what Yoruba was, since it was already in use amongst the Oyos themselves before he became a victim of the transatlantic slave trade. He did not learn from Hugh clapperton's book or that of any other. The problem here is that you are assuming a lot of things that you are not very well informed about. Some of the indentured servants (not slaves) who voluntarily went into the diaspora in the mid 1800s took the name 'Yoruba' with them, although at this point they were in the minority since slavery was already officially abolished in a lot of places, as such the name did not take hold unlike the others like Lukumi and Nago.

Thirdly, Muhammad Bello himself can not be credited with the creation of the term 'Yoruba' , 'Yaraba', "Yariba', Yarabawa" or the term as it appears in any of its previous or current forms. Did he use it any of his ajami writings to describe the Oyos? Yes he did. Were Yorubas aware of his writings in Ajami? Probably or not. But did he create the term? Most definitely not. And that is why the term is rightfully referenced back to the Hausas and the Hausa Language and not Bello. Even this is still contestable and I am doing some serious research work at right now into how that term came about for the Oyos because the truth is is that is does not have any specific meaning in Hausa language, However since the Yorubas themselves call the Borgu people Baruba, it would only make more parallel sense that the Oyos who were their neighbors were the Yoruba. But since I have no online sources to back up this particular claim as of yet, I would leave that out of the plane of discourse (for now).

Yes an exonym is a name that has its source in an external out-group source. Either for a place, a people or a culture as against the opposite terminology 'Endonym' which is a name whose origin is within the group in question. Baruba/Bariba is a Yoruba exonym for Baatonum/Borgu people, it has stuck into the modern era.. Tapa is a Yoruba exonym for Nupe people. Gambari is a Yoruba exonym for Hausas. Ado is a Yoruba exonym for Binis.... And until I a conclude my research work on whether the term 'Yoruba' actually does have its roots from within the Hausas there is no other word to describe it for now other than an 'Exonym', it is not misplaced usage. Oramfe (talk) 13:29, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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Yoruba people

Talisman-white keeps reediting the Yoruba people webpage. Can you tell this person to stop please, thank you very much. Abal126 (talk) 03:17, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

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Hello Oramfe, I am sorry for any trouble earlier. This is one thought I have had for a while and I would like your opinion. I want to run by you the suggestion of using https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Setic_vedia_mole.png to replace the current Oduduwa crown in the "Part of a series on Yoruba people" section of the page. What do you think about it? I am sure there is a reason for the current picture being used and I don't want to make any changes without your approval. When you get a chance I would appreciate any feedback, no urgency.

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I count five reverts. It doesn't matter what other users are doing, it doesn't matter that you initiated the report, this appears to be a clear violation of WP:3RR on your behalf and you've provided no reason to think otherwise. Yamla (talk) 17:21, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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Good to see you are back. You are still the main contributor to the page, Yoruba people. Let me know if I can help with any research for citation https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Yoruba%20people Oramfe I can understand a good amount of what this guy is saying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uql9biJYqZY XD

Talisman-white Yup. Same here.... although he is heavily mixing with Baatonum and French.... The rural varieties in places like angaradebou are even easier to understand than this Kandi variety.

Yorubaland

Please don’t erase the Ajami script. I am an example of an ethnic Yoruba that still uses the Ajami script in my everyday life. Even more so than the standard equivalent. Abal126 (talk) 16:15, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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Ajami script in Yorubaland never achieved universality, it was only restricted to a very small circle of Yorubas. The standard Yorùbá orthography on the other hand has. Even you use it in everyday life. If you want to talk about the historical use of Ajami in Yorubaland, go to the Yoruba language page and then go under the subsection of Writing systems to make the point there. You can't be transcribing Yorubaland article into Ajami and making that an infobox header. Oramfe (talk) 16:23, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Well, of course it has never achieved universality, because we are not all Muslim. I don’t personally really use the standard equivalent. If I use it, it is very rare. I write mostly if not entirely in the Ajami script. Abal126 (talk) 16:31, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

You talk like all muslims use Ajami. No we don't. Stop making it look like Ajami is something 98% of Yorubas use, know or even want. Like I told you, Ajami is mostly historical.. since the 1800's the super majority of Yorubaland use standard Yoruba orthography. There were actually more than two conferences of Yorubas from all walks of life on this issue. it isn't an argument. Oramfe (talk) 16:38, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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