chopnaira:

Don't Ijaw answer English name. Even Crowther was an English name and it did not make him less of a Yoruba.

I am sure you were one of those that rooted for GRV. Is Rhodes -Vivour a Yoruba name?

There's an Ajayi in a Crowther even though the latter is known to be a slave name.

Benwallt:


You're dysfunctional.

So, there should be hausakwankwoso, urhobogene, isokowede, ibomakpabio, calabakaete etc.

You sound very very lame

leave that guy abeg their mumu too much he get why ikwerre people day reject them

Olachase:
I agree with you They're three State that's still keeping the Yoruba race strong 1, ONDO 2, OSUN 3, EKITI Those guy's are ready to die for the culture, I cut cap for them 🫡🫡

What about Oyo state?

Dybala11:

What about Oyo state?

no be lie sha Igboho comes to mind

You will only find the freedom and cultural accomplishment you are seeking within the context of a strong and independent Yoruba nation, not this poor imitation that is chained to the destiny of a demonic mistake called Nigeria.

FreeStuffsNG:
The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos ‘pops with colour and sound’ in a dazzling departure from the colonial model
Interest in Yoruba heritage has peaked among young Nigerians over the past 10 years and “that’s what the Randle Centre absolutely plays into”, according to Rea.

“Even today, we find that Yoruba culture is influencing the world in all sorts of ways, with Fela Kuti taking it out of oriki singing tradition into a fusion of west coast American jazz. The notion of – for example – salsa, that is in origin a Yoruba dance movement that was taken up in Brazil. You now find Yoruba cuisine in London and New York. There is real sense that Yoruba culture needs more visibility.”

Absolutely brilliant and complements Freedom Park very close to the centre. That axis of Lagos Island is a tourist's paradise and visitor's delight in Lagos.

I have read that report earlier today and it's nice to read it again here. Thank you for sharing OP.

May God bless Lagos state and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Olachase:
no be lie sha Igboho comes to mind

All in all, Yoruba lagba. 🙌

The objective isn't to attract Yorubas, but the rest of the world. Any other Yoruba name wouldn't have gotten all you talking, don't you see. Inquiring... Questioning... All begats interest

Opak001:
Yoruba culture, but the mesuem is name in English why not in yoruba??
Sango museum
Obatala house.
White supremacy will never let us grow.

Great

Pootle:
why name the place a foreign name

comprehension is really big problem with some of you. The write up was self explanatory and the history behind naming the place after the man was explained. And for people asking foolish question, so because he chose to retain his slave name, does that make him less Yoruba? The name is part of his history And it’s nobody’s business what name a man chose to be called

Procashtips:


I don't care what he was. We are talking culture here. You want to represent a cultural heritage, you decided to name it after someone with a slave name. Isn't that ironic and conflicting?

He could still have been appreciated without using such an offensive name for a cultural heritage of a people claimed to be the second largest ethnic groups in Nigeria.

I don’t know what is it with you Igbos and senselessness. What’s your business with what a man chose to be called? Is Chinedu rhode vivour not a slave man? But you fools didn’t seem to have a problem with it on the last election, and beside it’s part of the man’s history and it’s no bodies business what a grown adult chose to call himself…please show us the Ibo cultural centre built in alaibo if you shameless people even have a history! Damn

Why is it named John Randle and not a Yoruboid name and wth is John Randle what significance does have in Yoruba culture??

Benwallt:



Any stream that forgets his origin dries up.

Slave name? Is slave not human being? Slaves get class.

I believe you have English name. Does that make you a slave? In trying to rewrite the present we must not forget history. The story will be told better with that name

don’t mind those fools that don’t understand what it means to preserve your history no matter how bad or ugly it may sound, it’s part of your history and there is nothing you can do about it.

Procashtips:
A slave name for a cultural heritage?

Non-European but named John Randle?

John Randle ---- Yoruba Culture and heritage?



A good initiative with the wrongest of all names ever!

Go and read history.

JK Randle stood up to imperialism but he did not do so naked with a bow and arrow. He built the first indigenous swimming pool for Nigerians at a time when swimming pools operated colour bars. That land and the "love gardens" was bequeathed to the people of Lagos by the same man. Love gardens was connected to the onikan stadium.

What did your fore fathers do against white imperialism and what did they bequeath to society?

And you are here carping about a name. It's what you do not what you are called.

Lanrelagboi:


sense that Yoruba culture needs more visibility.”

A team of academics and experts have contributed to the centre’s design and purpose, including the Nigerian-American scholar Rowland Abiodun, whose book, Yoruba Art and Language, is a key resource in the academic world.

Rea says that Lagos has deep connections to Yoruba heritage. “The whole Onikan area had become rather lost in the expansion of the city of Lagos, so the new centre is very much aimed at developing this area as a cultural quarter,” he says.

Yoruba people speak a similar language and have had a shared cultural identity and a shared cosmology that goes back in time, he says.

Interest in Yoruba heritage has peaked among young Nigerians over the past 10 years and “that’s what the Randle Centre absolutely plays into”, according to Rea.

“The key thing about the centre is a refusal to talk about the idea of the traditional. When you talk about traditional African art, it’s a very Eurocentric view of African art, it’s a historical notion. Rather, what we’re doing is looking at the traditions of Yoruba culture.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/30/john-randle-centre-yoruba-culture-lagos-nigeria

This is an impressive review of JK Randle Yoruba Cultural Centre. An iconic monument par excellence. I'll definitely visit here down the road and it's gonna be one of the best places for historic Black African Diasporans (from Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, Jamaica, USA, etc) and Continental Diasporans to visits.

The Oba of Benin too was at the JK Randle Yoruba Cultural Centre in early 2024 to understudy how they operate so as to have a newly built, iconic monument for keeping the Benin Bronze works and other archaeological works associated with Benin.

SonofLagos:
I don’t know what is it with you Igbos and senselessness. What’s your business with what a man chose to be called? Is Chinedu rhode vivour not a slave man? But you fools didn’t seem to have a problem with it on the last election, and beside it’s part of the man’s history and it’s no bodies business what a grown adult chose to call himself…please show us the Ibo cultural centre built in alaibo if you shameless people even have a history! Damn

Your peanut brain already believed I'm Igbo because?

You're not educated enough to be engaged in anything worthwhile.

BreconHills:


Go and read history.

JK Randle stood up to imperialism but he did not do so naked with a bow and arrow. He built the first indigenous swimming pool for Nigerians at a time when swimming pools operated colour bars. That land and the "love gardens" was bequeathed to the people of Lagos by the same man. Love gardens was connected to the onikan stadium.

What did your fore fathers do against white imperialism and what did they bequeath to society?

And you are here carping about a name. It's what you do not what you are called.

How you people deliberately miss the point is astonishing.

Why should they name a Yoruba cultural institute after a White Pig?
Let me speak in the language of Asians and Mestizos.
Didn't they see any Notable Yoruba legendary personality, like Moremi,who bravely defended her people against invaders in the legendary story,Oranyan legendary founder of Oyo,Gaha ruler of the Oyo empire in the 16th century,Orompoto, the legendary female Alaafin of Oyo in the 16th century or any other?
Why must it be a White Pig?
White Pigs that came to plunder and loot our cultural artifacts.
Have Yoruba become ashamed of their own Human Legends now?

So no Yoruba deserves to be named after this project? Why choose a foreign name if it is really “ unapologetically non-European”.
This noise is too noisy abeg

Why is it still called John Randle? Who is he?

Why not Obafemi Awolowo or Wole Soyinka or any other name to reflect it's grandor and purposes

Yoruba music = A1
Yoruba culture = A1
As for Yoruba Cousine, abeg no go there. Yoruba food carry second to last in Nigeria after Hausa food.

Sctests:


Igbo is of Igbo origin. That why you see names like Igbokwe, Igboebuka, Okadigbo, Igboeze, etc.

It is unfornate yorubas cannot find the word yoruba in their original lexicons and names of people and town.

even the word Yoruba isn't even theirs it's Yoruba

Father4all:
Nawa oo too much noise

You said too much noise, can you explain how?

Procashtips:


Your peanut brain already believed I'm Igbo because?

You're not educated enough to be engaged in anything worthwhile.

you are the one that lacks knowledge with the nonsensical statement you made.you should know that there are history behind peoples name but here you are talking nonsense

Procashtips:
A slave name for a cultural heritage?

Non-European but named John Randle?

John Randle ---- Yoruba Culture and heritage?



A good initiative with the wrongest of all names ever!

e get as e be bro, and no one could call their attention to it before taking this to nairaland?

SonofLagos:
I don’t know what is it with you Igbos and senselessness. What’s your business with what a man chose to be called? Is Chinedu rhode vivour not a slave man? But you fools didn’t seem to have a problem with it on the last election, and beside it’s part of the man’s history and it’s no bodies business what a grown adult chose to call himself…please show us the Ibo cultural centre built in alaibo if you shameless people even have a history! Damn

Sincerely I pity people like you it is now I understand Yoruba is the head because inferiority complexity killing you all in pretence of ignorant and tribalism shit.

I even read one fake Jewish claiming igbokwe, igboeze names and so on are this and that talking nonsense.

I challenge my fellow igbos in this forum to please tell me where did igbo originally came from with a confirmed evidence? Pls I don't need those nonsense circumstial evidence or one America
f u c king professor wrote in his book igbo are from Uganda or Jew shit thunder will fire you because that submission is a very stupid submission.

Yoruba built the centre for their culture and have right to called it anything if you are not happy with that don't go there afterall they are not asking you to come their then what is all of you headaches now Complexity syndrome at the peak, shame!

You all enemies of progress should go and read history who is John Randle or pls keep shut forever and ever.

You ruined your own culture and still want to ruined others culture? Sorry, it won't work, no wonder majority of you buluba and balabu on this centre are obidients like your grigory like you all mentally unstable with character deficiency syndrome sickness.

Low lifers with dead beat inferiority complexity....na Yoruba matter go kpeme many before 2024 end.

Mervingreat:


Sincerely I pity people like you it is now I understand Yoruba is the head because inferiority complexity killing you all in pretence of ignorant and tribalism shit.

I even read one fake Jewish claiming igbokwe, igboeze names and so on are this and that talking nonsense.

I challenge my fellow igbos in this forum to please tell me where did igbo originally came from with a confirmed evidence? Pls I don't need those nonsense circumstial evidence or one America
f u c king professor wrote in his book igbo are from Uganda or Jew shit thunder will fire you because that submission is a very stupid submission.

Yoruba built the centre for their culture and have right to called it anything if you are not happy with that don't go there afterall they are not asking you to come their then what is all of you headaches now Complexity syndrome at the peak, shame!

You all enemies of progress should go and read history who is John Randle or pls keep shut forever and ever.

You ruined your own culture and still want to ruined others culture? Sorry, it won't work, no wonder majority of you buluba and balabu on this centre are obidients like your grigory like you all mentally unstable with character deficiency syndrome sickness.

Low lifers with dead beat inferiority complexity....na Yoruba matter go kpeme many before 2024 end.

you must have quoted the wrong person because I really don’t understand why you directing your anger at me

Omo 'Olu Iwa Bi...

EngineerOloye:
The objective isn't to attract Yorubas, but the rest of the world. Any other Yoruba name wouldn't have gotten all you talking, don't you see. Inquiring... Questioning... All begats interest

branding is a form of marketing, they let the name speak on what they are selling.

AfonjaConehead:

On behalf of all ronus,you are an Igbo ipob 😁

either way then no go call oshimiri ,Poseidon.

Jeez, are Yorubas the only people in Nigeria? Everything is about them

Why John Randle & not Oduduwa or Sango or even Ogun?

Lanrelagboi:


https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/30/john-randle-centre-yoruba-culture-lagos-nigeria

JK Randle like mobolaji bank Anthony and other old money of their era bequeathed landed property and facilities to the Goverment,many of which we still use today.I believe that land is one of those donated by JK Randle,the famous hospital in surgery also should be one,they could have given them to their children and the value would ensure their generations to come are never poor.

It is only right to honor their contribution and legacy by rightfully acknowledging their names so a generation will not come and say who is JK Randle on the same property.At least now you all know