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#yoruba — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #yoruba, aggregated by home.social.

  1. “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?

    “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.”

    rpublc.com/story/2026/05/24/cu

  2. 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