MayorofLagos:


I can't quite go into esoteric with you without obtaining permission from 9jacrip. Let me just say that blood is stronger than water. You didnt look for Yoruba, you were called by your blood to return to root.

ilekemd:

lmaoo my mom sent me this video a while ago.

Why did I imagine shym3x & his "swag" after watching this video?

laudate:


Why do you want to know?? And why are you calling me a she?

Rilwayne001:


Owe l'esin oro, oro l'esin owe, t'oro ba sonu owe l'afi nwa.

This is a quiz for yoruba speaking people and those who understand the nigbati language.   The task is to start or begin a yoruba proverb and allow others to complete the sentence.  As you complete try if you can to start a proverb for others to complete.

Agba ki nwa loja,________________

laudate:


Guy, when was the last time you went into the hinterlands?? If these crafts were not dying, they should have been growing and quite visible in every local government, both in the cities and the villages. Only traditional hair-dressing seems to have thrived irrespective of location, but that was NOT even mentioned in our discourse. Weave-on even appears to be a preferred medium of hair expression among the ladies, these days.

Take Ewi for example. When was the last time an Ewi piece got into the Top Ten Charts in the South-western part of Nigeria?? Let us look at Aso-oke. In how many towns and villages does this art thrive, all over the South-West? This is something that whole communities and villages should be engaged in, and not just a few families.

And if you compare the usage of local compressed earth mud blocks for building houses today, with the number of houses being built using cement, you would realise that this art of using traditional earth blocks for building houses is fast going into extinction.

The same thing goes for traditional blacksmithing, copperworks etc.

Rilwayne001:


Owe l'esin oro, oro l'esin owe, t'oro ba sonu owe l'afi nwa.

This is a quiz for yoruba speaking people and those who understand the nigbati language.   The task is to start or begin a yoruba proverb and allow others to complete the sentence.  As you complete try if you can to start a proverb for others to complete.

Agba ki nwa loja,________________

9jacrip:

I was going to put the s in (), it slipped.

I think people on this thread should know, I'm sure others are curious and some are even thinking you're a Yoruba in the diaspora like Shymm3x.

9jacrip:


Nice one.

Agba kin wa l'oja, k'ori omo tuntun wo.


Complete this: Agbal'agba ti on s'are ninu egun ___________________________

Hmmm! hmm! Injury lo fe ni

ilekemd:


No, but one is close to me and would do anything for me.
Iya mi ti so fun mi pe ti iyen ba sele, won ni je ki n wole won mo. Iya iyami ma n kilo fun mi pe mii gbudo fe won to ri pe won da.
Preferably eni ti ko n se Nigeria.....Nigerians are too local.


Igbale la fi ma le Mayor of Lagos ti o ba lo fe nyamiri

Shymm3x:


Lol.

Laudate is a mysterious poster - I'm still trying to figure the person out.

But he/she does post a lot of interesting things. And I believe the person can post in Igbo as well. That's the Laudate Dominion right there.

As for me, I'm not against the use of Yoruba on this board...at the end of the day, it's part of celebrating Yoruba culture/heritage.

Rilwayne001:


Hmmm! hmm! Injury lo fe ni

9jacrip:

Lol

I appreciate the poster's interest but one can help but be curious which is not wrong.

And I think it will make sense for each poster to identify what part of Yoruba land they are from.

Asides being able to replicate the regional integration on here as they will be seen as ambassadors of whereever they're from, people can also reach to them for reference on matters bordering on where they are from.

I know my duke is from Ijebu waterside, yes?

9jacrip:


Lmao!
Agbalagba ton sare ninu egun, ti ko ba le nkan, nkan le.
Eleyi nko: eni ti owo e o ba tii ba eku ida ___________

Ko to bee lati beere iku to pa baba e.

Shymm3x:


Lol.

He/She is a decent poster and despite the fact that he/she does write the longest posts ever - I like reading them. Worth it.

Yes, bruddah. We're all here to represent our different regiments in the Yoruba commonwealth as Yoruba warriors. It makes the thread more interesting and it obviously helps in educating folks about the different parts of Yorubaland.

Rilwayne001:


Ko to bee lati beere iku to pa baba e.

Aareonakakanfo:
[b]To start with,I don't see the reason why my absence should signal the death of this thread.I'm only the OP.I loved what i saw the first time i was absent as a result of the ban.A lot of people were free and everyone was in charge.I don't know why the same thing didn't happen this time around


As per the thread title,initially i wanted to stick with Yoruba/south-west title until mayor came up with the commonwealth idea and i asked everyone what they thought about it.If people had disagreed with the new title,i probably wouldn't have changed it because at the end of the day,majority carries the vote

As per yoruba hour, na that one tire me pass,even when i was here,no one took it serious.I loved the ideas ilekeh came up with on how to make it more interesting and i even posted the picture on the first page.
and i don't know why anyone can't go through my old posts and call people out.I can't be here all the time,me sef get job

Some people complained about the thread losing its focus that we should speak more about development and i pleaded with those who were posting biographies to cut it down.Ironically, those who complained didn't even show up.Instead it was those who were posting biographies that contributed

My issue here is those who spend 90% of their time on biafran threads and only show up maybe once in a week are the ones who have the most complaints.I try as much as possible to make everyone here comfortable but i don't like it when people just complain and suddenly disappear.

Shymm3x and ritchiee how come no one is talking about "Internet of things" or is it the same with AI?


Laudate i love you.If you be man no homo.If you be woman and you are not married,i'm giving you a kiss from my keyboard.If you're married,tell oga say make e no vex


And lastly i welcome the inductees[/b]

9jacrip:
Is Osogbo in the hinterlands? If yes, there's wood work/sculpture, agbede (black smith), cloth making (Dying and Aso Oke), ewi etc.

Is Ife in the hinterlands? If yes, there's aso oke, agbede, sculpture, ewi etc

Is Ikire in the hinterlands? If yes, these same things are present.

Not to mention other places in Osun, Oyo, Osun and Ogun that I've been to apart from those 3 places I go to almost every weekend.

If you so desire Ewi, you'd have to source for the CD, they are pretty much available around and they do not have to necessarily make the charts.

Where I'm from, Ife/most part of Osun, forget the cement plasters you see. Most houses are built using compressed mud blocks and then plastered with cement.

Some of us know these things are not extinct or scarce. What we see depends on the world we operate in.

Ritchiee:
I thought I was going to see somebody to share the AI experience with in Nigeria as per the Kaduna guy that built one artificial intelligence thing in SRI LANKA sometime ago but nobody was interested.Look at these...http://venturesafrica.com/nigerian-student-builds-fully-functional-artificial-intelligence-robot-in-sri-lanka/
http://techloy.com/2011/12/01/nigerian-student-wins-best-artificial-intelligence-research-award/

I am going to post a few things now...ciao

Shymm3x:
Lol.

Laudate is a mysterious poster - I'm still trying to figure the person out.

But he/she does post a lot of interesting things. And I believe the person can post in Igbo as well. That's the Laudate Dominion right there.

As for me, I'm not against the use of Yoruba on this board...at the end of the day, it's part of celebrating Yoruba culture/heritage.

9jacrip:



Lmao!

Agbalagba ton sare ninu egun, ti ko ba le nkan, nkan le.

Eleyi nko: eni ti owo e o ba tii ba eku ida ___________

laudate:


Respect, bro'! You also post a lot of interesting facts. I have learnt a lot from your posts on other threads....

laudate:


Well, this is a subject on which we would probably not agree till kingdom come, so I respectfully beg to take my leave. But before I do so, please note that what gave rise to the entire discourse was the high rate of unemployment among youth in the south-West, and what could be done to get them gainfully employed.

If you say that these crafts are thriving in Ife, Osogbo etc, my question would still be that if you take the entire South-western region as a whole, in what proportion of the south-west do all these crafts still thrive, as at today?? Would the areas you mentioned constitute 50% to 70% of Yoruba land?? I think not.

Due to the fact that there are new and interesting designs of Aso-oke being churned out these days as more educated people come up with their own designs, I have found that many of the weavers these days are Ghanaians, Togolese (Ajase) and even Senegalese folk who have migrated into Nigeria to reside in the hinterlands, and have decided to try their hands at this trade. Please don't get me wrong. I am not saying that all Yoruba weavers have abdicated from the trade. There are just more West Africans coming into the picture.

As for compressed earth blocks being used to construct houses these days, I beg to disagree. Maybe those old houses that were constructed several years back, were done in this way. But since the beginning of this decade, I don't think a lot of people have tapped into this area, for building construction. The practice may be prevalent in Ife today, but I doubt if the same thing can be said of Akure, Ile-Oluji, Ikare-Akoko, Owo, Badagry, Ijede etc. And this is an area that needs to be seriously explored and propagated on a regional basis, so that it gains more popularity. It is labour-intensive, so it would reduce unemployment to a certain degree, and it is also cheaper than cement, so it would be commercially effective.

Building of houses in the past using stabilised earth blocks and mud, was done by age-groups over a period of weeks. From what I heard, this method of communal labour helped residents to construct their houses, without them having to spend tons of money. All they had to do, was make the materials available and also ensure there was plenty of food for the builders!!

I am not sure if this same communal efforts can be revived today, but if the whole building method can be modernised and commercialised to engage the unemployed youth who don't have a source of livelihood in various towns and cities, it would be a good thing. Personally, I would like to see entire estates built with this compressed earth blocks right within the South-West region.

As for Ewi, the fact that it is not being given prominent airtime, or promoted in a popular manner or earning tons of money for its proponents, shows that it is not growing. It is gradually dying out. How many young Yoruba folks in Lagos, Ibadan or Akure can recite a whole Ewi chant, without breaking a sweat? How many of them have heard of Olanrewaju Adepoju? How many Ewi pieces have been sampled by our growing pop musicians? Would you place its popularity on the same level as hip-hop or highlife?

Personally, I love 'Ewi. But I fear for its future in Nigeria, as other forms of music continue to rule our airwaves and the indifference of our youth to this genre, stifles its growth. At the risk of sounding repetitive, anything that does not grow, dies...

Ritchiee:
Innovation Published
October 12, 2015
Direct Link


This 21 year-old Nigerian invented a groundbreaking mobile medical UPS

Recently, 21 year-old Nigerian Jaiyeola Oduyoye, a graduate of Product Design Engineering from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom created a ground breaking invention in anticipation of her graduation from the University of Derby in June 2016.

To enhance surgical procedures in hospitals which often suffer from poor electricity, Oduyoye invented a mobile medical battery that provides temporary backup electricity to surgical theaters in developing countries. The invention was “developed for countries that have difficulty accessing uninterrupted power supplies so they are able to perform these surgeries in-country, rather than fly people out”, she said to This Day.

In 2013, Dr. Geoffrey, a Tanzanian surgeon was in the middle of a critical procedure on a child in the country, when power cut. Surgeons such as Geoffrey, throughout Africa often use torches in hospitals due to inconsistent power. As such, this new invention will be serving medical communities across developing countries with much needed support.

“Neva”- the name given to the mobile medical backup, is closely related to an industrial UPS (uninterruptible power supply). It has smooth flat surfaces so it’s easy to be cleaned and unlikely to trap dirt. It contains lithium ion battery packs that have 60 charge cycles and produces a power output enough to provide power for critical machines during surgeries. The battery packs are available for switch and replace. The product however, is completely adaptable to many situations.

It is worthy of note that the battery system of the mobile medical backup enables uninterrupted workflow by eliminating the time intensive and onerous tasks previously associated with battery management, ensuring that nurses and other healthcare professionals can now dedicate additional focus to patient care.
http://www.informationng.com/2015/10/louise-jaiyeola-oduyoye-develops-neva-an-emergency-power-backup-for-surgeons.html

Shymm3x:


Err, I think both Olukotun and Dabiri should be active in AI since they're both fellows of IEEE and AI is fundamentally computing + robotics. The processor Olukotun invented is basically AI. Ditto Dabiri's vortex research.

9jacrip:
High rate of unemployment amonst youth in the SWest, in the urban areas or hinterlands? The last I checked, the hinterland youths are mostly employed as farmers, commercial herbalists, black smiths to mention a few. Maybe not economically 'in there' but they're employed.

You need to keep in mind each state, asides from its urban centres has a lot of rural areas where these things thrive so I'm not sure how to equate it with what proportion of the SWest they constitute. At least for Osun alone, I'm aware virtually every town, even Osogbo its capital has these things thriving.

I do not know where you find those weavers - a friend still had me getting prices of Aso-Oke for his wedding and in Ibadan and Ife, the weavers were the locals.
If the mud blocks are used in Ife, believe it spread across the entire Osun state and other hinterland Yoruba towns because it is cheap and as you said usually a communal effort to build or re-build.

Maybe all of the above are not commercialized, they are prevalent and not in anyway extinct as you've made it seem.

I wonder why you just want to tag something as 'dying' or 'extinct' because they're not readily available within your reach? Ewi not largly being on air (some Yoruba radio stations allot airtime for programmes that feature Ewi) does not mean it is dying. As I said previously, if you visit compounds of families whose generational craft is Ewi, you'd be shocked to find the youngest male in the house reciting serious Ewi chants.

Ewi like drumming (each family has what drum it has mastered) is not like some art every Yoruba knows or learns, it is mostly treated like a family business.

laudate:


Sir, I still disagree with you because I feel you have missed most of the points I have made. You keep using Osun State as a yardstick for judging the current status of events in several other parts of Yorubaland. Do have a nice day.