#yoruba — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #yoruba, aggregated by home.social.
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“A #Yoruba man travels to #Brazil and encounters a #religion built from traditions that people back home in #Nigeria had learned to distrust.
The experience forces a question: how did Yoruba religion survive the Atlantic but become estranged from the people it came from?
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“Both #religions were foreign. #Islam arrived earlier, through North African trade and political expansion, and captured my grandparents’ generation. That made them chief imams. #Christianity came through organized missionary infrastructure and later Pentecostal revivalism. That made my parents pastors. What this meant for me was a near-total estrangement from any #indigenous Yoruba #religiousSystem; despite growing up in a Yoruba-majority state in Nigeria, speaking the language fluently and understanding most of its social codes.”https://rpublc.com/story/2026/05/24/culture-and-society/reclamation-across-the-atlantic
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A bit of a departure this week, here's a few of my favourite African proverbs.
* Strategy is better than strength.
#Hausa* When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.
#Yoruba* If you are on a road to nowhere, find another road.
#Ashanti* Those who get to the river early drink the cleanest water.
#Kenyan* Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.
#Ashanti#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #BlackJoy #AfricanProverbs #Wisdom #Wordstoliveby
