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Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by olajigaolamide: 10:42am On Feb 14, 2016 |
macof: It pains me dearly that i saw this trend lately . I am a full blooded ekiti man . Macof does not know anything about the history of ekiti people. The people of ekiti does not speak a dialect that is different from each other, they speak a dialect known as the ekiti dialect and the ekiti dialect is been spoken in different intonation depending of the ekiti. Ekiti traditionally is divided into 16 district or kingdoms, Efon , oye and other ekiti kingdoms that you mentioned are part of the original ekiti kingdoms. Ekitis are culturally, linguistically and historically homogeneous .Ekiti people are part of the yoruba nation because who share some things with them . Here is the history of Ekiti people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiti 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by hmmph: 12:44pm On Mar 04, 2016 |
This whole thing is stupid because obviously the origin of edo ppl n language is the same as that of Yoruba. It is a fact that some Edo ppl in Edo speak Yoruba. I know itsekiri ppl who understand Yoruba n they never lived in Oyo. Latin n spanish have a number of similarities btw the two but they are not the exact same. Bantu languages are not the exact same either but they are all called Bantu ppl whether in the East of Africa or South n it is because of the ancestral link |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by hmmph: 12:45pm On Mar 04, 2016 |
This whole thing is stupid because obviously the origin of edo ppl n language is the same as that of Yoruba. It is a fact that some Edo ppl in Edo speak Yoruba. I know itsekiri ppl who understand Yoruba n they never lived in Oyo. Latin n spanish have a number of similarities btw the two but they are not the exact same. Bantu languages are not the exact same either but they are all called Bantu ppl whether in the East of Africa or South n it is because of the ancestral link |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by hmmph: 1:08pm On Mar 04, 2016 |
eaxes:So your grandparents had Yoruba names because of the close proximity ro Yorubas? QThey wouldnt name their children Yoruba names if they didnt consider themselves Yoruba. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by oyatz(m): 8:43am On Dec 29, 2016 |
Most peoples of southern Nigeria especially ,Yorubas, Edos ,Itsekiris, Urhobos, Igbos, Ikweres, Ekpeyes , Aniomas and some tribes in the North Central like Igalas, Egbiras, Idomas and Nupes are far related than what most people know or acknowledge . If you bother to dig past enough. We may actually be ONE people in the distant past. hmmph: 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by RedboneSmith(m): 8:58am On Dec 29, 2016 |
hmmph: This is an uninformed opinion. Nigerians give their children Arabic and English names, without considering themselves Arabs or English. It is a matter of cultural and sometimes political influence. 2 Likes |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Deadlytruth(m): 1:27pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
hmmph: As an Edo person, I don't share any origin with Yoruba. The story of my progenitor has no part of it that says he fell from the sky like Oduduwa. What appears like the cultural closeness between Yorubas and Edos is not actually real but a fall out of political colonization of Edo and Delta through the instrumentality of the Yoruba domination thus absolute possession of political power over the minority non-Yoruba tribes in the then Western Region. The domination was so intense that the Western Region minorities could not put up any concrete resistance when the Yoruba controlled government imposed the learning of Yoruba in primary and post-primary institutions all over the region. Still, the quest for political correctness in the Yoruba dominated environment of the Western Region led Edos and Deltans of today to start importing and superimposing Yoruba culture, traditions and names on their own. But with the creation of Midwest the trend reversed automatically and consequently the Yoruba influence has almost completely been shaken off. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by jara: 5:15pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
Don't pay too much attention or waste time or sleepless night on pseudo historians trying to revise cultural, genetic and archeological evidence. They will not stop until they divide themselves into clans, families and TRIBES as the Europeans label them. Imagine people not enough in population or less in population calling Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba tribes. Now you know their reasons and may be justified. It is the same with mushroom states and local governments. The case of Bini trying to colonize nations with propaganda including their cousins is paying off because those ones are learning from them and paying them back. oyatz: 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Deadlytruth(m): 5:55pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
Nowenuse: As a native of Akoko-Edo, I hereby acknowledge the 99.999999℅ accuracy of PhysicsQED's assertions about Akoko-Edo. I suspect that despite being a Bini guy, he has actually taken his time to visit and study Akoko-Edo people directly rather than reliance on hearsays and online articles as most other commentators here obviously guilty of. As for your assertions about Akoko-Edo, I have decided to take the pain to supply you with details of all the nuances that relate directly to your claims: 1. The Akoko-Edo guy you encountered in Uniben was obviously born and brought up in Yorubaland with his parents never allowing or taking him home to stay long enough to familiarize with members of his extended family to learn his actual origin. Moreover, his parents might have before his eyes as a kid been capitalizing on their Akoko-Edo origin to describe themselves as Yorubas just to remain relevant and more acceptable to Yorubas among whom they live in Lagos or Ibadan. A lot of Akoko-Edos residing in Yorubaland do this deliberately and I personally discourage it as its benefit of attracting immediate gratification from Yorubas is nothing compared with the identity crisis it leads to in the end. But thank you for rescuing him from the jaws of such extreme ignorance. 2. Akoko-Edo people actually have no ancestral mix with Yorubas. It only appears so due to the quite heavy Yoruba influence cum identity crisis wrought on them politically as a result of being under the Yoruba majority's absolute control of the instruments of political power in the Old Western Region. Before colonization, the people were not identified with the "Akoko" tag as it was totally alien to them. They only came to adopt it for political administrative purpose when their diversity could not be represented by any single name they might choose from among themselves. In the pre-colonial era they had and still have towns and villages with names reflecting Edo in either spelling or meaning, e.g. Ekpe-Edo compressed to Ekpedo. There has however never been any of the 56 towns and villages with the "Akoko" tag in its name unlike it is with virtually all Ondo-Akoko towns, e.g. Oka-Akoko, Oba-Akoko, Isua-Akoko, Ikare-Akoko, Epinmi-Akoko, Ikeram-Akoko, etc. The "Akoko" tag is therefore just an extraneous descriptive element hence the name "Akoko-Edo" means nothing other than "The Edos who are geographical neighbours with Akokos of Ondo State". 3. You are totally wrong about Igarras also referred to as Etuno people. The Ebira origin theory which you ascribe to Igarra is quite misleading because both Etuno (Igarra) and Ebira (Okene and environs) are actually distinct subsets of coordinate status under the Oshuku tribe. Neither came out of the other but both are equal descendants of Oshuku. That Ebiras have become numerically larger than Igarra does not subsume Igarra under them. The unanimously accepted Oshuku history has it that four brothers from the same father - Oshemi - each with his supporters (not necessarily descendants) founded the respective Oshuku towns of Panda, Koton Karfi, Okene (Ebira) and Igarra (Etuno). The eldest of them all confounded Igarra with a group of hunters, while the second eldest founded Okene (Ebira and environs). So how on earth can the name (i.e. Ebira) of the community founded by a younger sibling be adopted as generic name where that (i.e. Etuno) which describes the town founded by the eldest is? In the first ever Oshuku descendants national body meeting, all the representatives from the different subgroups, including Ebiras, unanimously conceded that the first ever president of the group should come from Igarra in acknowledgement of Igarra as their most senior. So if at all the generic name of the Oshuku tribe must change, it must be to Etuno on the basis of primogeniture right and never Ebira of the younger brother. Therefore it remains Oshuku till then. Based on Oshuku documented history, no segment of their migrational trajectory from the extreme Northeastern axis of Africa to their present locations lie anywhere in Yorubaland hence Igarras never interacted with Yorubas from prehistoric times. So the Yoruba mix ancestry theory being hanged on Igarra is unfounded, indefensible and untenable. 4. The Akoko Stare agitation was to even include the Ebiras and Kaba-Bunu people of Kogi State. It was a brainchild of some Akoko-Edo people who once reasoned that such was the only way they could be part of a state where there is no single overwhelming majority tribe that will deploy its numerical strength to solely control and determine political trends as obtains with Igalas in Kogi and Binis in Edo. It was not an idea informed by any feelings of shared cultural identity or similarities among the prospective component tribes. But with the emergence of Oshiomhole from Edo North as governor largely with Bini votes, the Bini domination perception withered and the idea of Akoko State died among its Akoko-Edos advocates. 5. Your claim of a relative Edoid/Yoruba mix of Akoko-Edos as per ancestry is flawed. The most scientific evidence against this is the presence in all Akoko-Edo languages of the "v", "z", "'kp'" and "ch" in their alphabets, pronunciation and spelling systems whereas such are totally absent and unknown in Yoruba alphabets, spellings and pronunciations. As for the issue of bearing Yoruba name in Akoko-Edo, I have trashed it extensively in other threads. A journey through all my posts will educate anyone who wants more information. In conclusion the bearing of Yoruba names and speaking of Yoruba in Akoko-Edo does not make them Yorubas any more than the bearing of English names and speaking of English Language in Nigeria make Nigerians white men. |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 9:03pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
AndreUweh: Edo people also speak Ora. Go to Owan West & Owan East local govt area of Edo state, and you will see that is their language. Ask anybody from Sabongida-Ora what language he speaks, he will never tell you that he speaks Bini, or Esan or Etsako, but Ora. 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 9:04pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
AndreUweh: True!! |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 9:22pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
odumchi: Are you saying that the Itsekiri language is not related to Yoruba language? ![]() ![]() A number of Itsekiri people bear pure Yoruba names, and they find it easy to understand Yoruba language. That is just my observation. |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 9:26pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
Malawian:Ekwueme?? ![]() ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 9:42pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
Nowenuse: coolest01: Interesting! |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 9:45pm On Jan 01, 2018 |
PhysicsQED:A lot of them have Yoruba names? ![]() |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by gregyboy(m): 8:37am On Jan 02, 2018 |
AndreUweh: you are bleeped up. so you mean yoruba language is innate to all edos all what ...you have to be specific they are the people of akoko edo who migrated from ondo state who are in edo east i guess .those people speak yourba related language just like other diverse yoruba tribes .but on the aspect of yoruba not learning benin even if they had influence on Yoruba state can easily be proven because a benin man doesn't see the language as important as the Yoruba's see thiers .but as the rest edo i assure you non dont speak yoruba apart from the ones who based in yoruba town's 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Deadlytruth(m): 11:24am On Jan 02, 2018 |
gregyboy: Enough has already been said in the previous comments about Akoko-Edos not being Yorubas by any means. Akoko-Edo people are themselves an assortment of tribes who speak a total of 17 different languages, none of which shares any affinity with Yoruba, hence could not have migrated from Ondo or anywhere else in Yoruba land as you would have people believe. The name "Akoko-Edo" is purely geographical and means "The Edo people who share boundary with and are physical neighbours to Akokos of Ondo State". It does not connote any linguistic or ancestral affinity with the Akokos any more than the name "Nigeria" could suggest that Southern Nigerians are related to the people of Niger Republic. 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by gregyboy(m): 11:44am On Jan 02, 2018 |
StarFlux: yea...edo went ahead to borrow words from thier first white encounters the Portuguese like spoon in edo and Portuguese are both “ekuye" so as mirror and other words which dont know for now the benis also borrowed the ekasa danced from the igalas which is among the benin traditional dance now and the igalas took a mask which is smillar to the festac mask and now is a very important mask to the igalas .also after the wars between the igalas and the benins the village where the war was fought was named “idah” a corruption of queen “idia” after a benin queen who sacrifice her life during the war .same as other yoruba group's who were under the edo territory due to colonisation borrowed words from the edos like ugbo(farm,bush ) smilar to both groups olakpa(police) similar to both groups and also the Igbo's which have words similars to the edos eweka(a king a benin), Igbo iweka( a corrupt form of eweka in benin) bottom line is geographically benin was in the middle of the east(onitsha) north( igalas),west(ondo,ekiti,osun,eko) and they hard influence on all this tributaries vice versa ...so not even yoruba ,nor igbo or igala should claim edo but edo can decide to claim any under the influence of colonisation 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Vivere: 10:41pm On Jan 02, 2018 |
coolest01: Deadlytruth: PhysicsQED: Confusing...! |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Nowenuse: 1:09am On Jan 03, 2018 |
Deadlytruth: Hmmm, It's been 4 years ago I made that comment. I had even forgotten that I ever made any comment like that. Had to go through the thread again to even understand what it was about. Lol Thanks for the enlightenment anyway. I appreciate. You seem to have a vast knowledge of your people and I admire this. But just for the records, the Akoko-edo boy (from Okpamheri precisely) who thought he was yoruba, never grew up in yoruba land. He grew up in Kano with his family. I think he even speaks Hausa better than yoruba. Also, you are very correct, many of your Akoko edo people who grew up in yoruba land are almost as good as lost (permit me to put it that way). I had many of them as friends and neighbors in Uniben, and believe me, unless they open their mouths and tell you that they are Edos, you will never know or even manage to guess. Some of them even behave more yoruba than typical yorubas and to worsen this, you now see them with bold yoruba names (which seals the conclusion)...... Permit me to ask, why do your people seem to have so much fondness and affinity with yoruba land and culture than Benin? Thank you for the other points. Also, the Ebira/Etuno point, never heard of that. If what you say about the Oshuku descent is true, how come the Ebira tao (Kogi central people) now outnumber the Etuno, Koto & panda ebiras even combined by far? Also, only the Etunos do not have the Ebira tag. Koto & Panda people have always adressed themselves as Egbura. And I think these 3 groups apparently had a meeting some years ago and all agreed to start adressing themselves as EGBIRRA people collectively. I saw a news article on this. As for the reason why your people answer yoruba names, pls link me to the thread (and exact page if necessary) where you thrashed the issue. Thanks again. 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Deadlytruth(m): 10:28am On Jan 03, 2018 |
Nowenuse: Thanks a lot for your reply. You see, it is very easy for an Akoko-Edo child growing up in the North to quickly sense that he is not a Hausa man even if his parents never tutored him on that. The very large differences in morphology and phenotype between the Hausa-Fulanis and Southerners generally is enough evidence to an untutored child. However, such an child would easily by logical considerations mistakenly assume he is Yoruba owing to the 'Akoko' root in the name of his local government which his parents must however reveal to him when he gets to the stages of his education at which he must enrol for WAEC and UME by filling forms in which he would be required to enter his LGA of origin. Generally, it is difficult for any one who is not very close to or deeply knowledgeable about Akoko-Edo to assume that the 'Akoko' in the name connotes Yorubaness. For example both the Etisalat database and Facebook default settings place Akoko-Edo in Ondo State. You won't blame them because Akoko-Edo shares boundary with four LGAs in Ondo State all bearing the Akoko tag too. Such would naturally lead to the perception that they are all the same peoples in the mind of any innocent and yet to be informed observer. Your assertion that most Akoko-Edo people who grew up in Yorubaland are as good as lost is the very bitter truth hence you need no permission to put it that way. As for the reason: you see it is a principle in Social Anthropology that members of a minority tribe who live among a majority tribe are likely to seek a kind of integration with the host tribe to make his coexistence with them easier hence such may end up in unconscious acculturation and assimilation which on the long run detaches him from his actual roots. This principle has a lot of Akoko-Edos as good examples. Even those who were brought up in the North somehow get acculturated into Northern value system and tradition so much that their own roots no longer appeal to them. There is a Lampese man known to me who was born and brought up in Lampese but later got to settle in Kaduna for the past 40 years. He is now so much acculturated to Hausa-Fulani culture that the only things that differentiate him from Hausa-Fulanis as of now are his religion and Edo-accent of speech. Every other feature about him has metamorphosed into Hausa-Fulani. The fondness with Yoruba than with their actual Bini roots was a trend that largely owes its beginning to the overwhelming Yoruba political influence in the Old Western Region where Yoruba had a very firm grip on political power and dictated who got what. In order to appear more related to Yorubas among all the minorities then Akoko-Edos had to de-emphasize their Bini roots and put on the rather false toga of Yorubaness since the struggle for extrication from the Western Region was being championed mostly by Binis who co-victims of Yoruba domination. However, awareness has been created over time and that affinity for Yorubaism is now resented by the average Akoko-Edo man or woman. Beginning from roughly three decades ago, no one gives a new child a Yoruba name in Akoko-Edo any more. This I tell you with 100℅ certainty. As for the exceedingly larger numerical strength of the Ebiras among the Oshuku people, here is the reason as gleaned from documented history which they all unanimously agree to: The four Oshemi sons were Ozoko, Itaazi, Oduniya and Negedu from the eldest to the youngest. The first to go his separate way was Negedu who founded Panda. Very few supporters followed him because he left at a time when most Oshuku people still erroneously believed there was hope that the Attah of Igala would eventually turn a new leaf from his ill-treatment of them for being a totally different tribe from the Opoto (Igala) people. Next to realize the futility of that hope was Oduniya who then moved to found Koton Karfi with more supporters than Negedu obviously due to increasing awareness with time. The last to move were Ozoko and Itaazi who left simultaneously with the relatively far larger remaining supporters when it became totally doubtless that the Attah would never treat the Oshuku fairly. These two eldest sons moved away together northwards first, crossed the river Niger and began moving southwards to a destination (Etuno) which an advance party of hunters had already gone to survey and reported back as very inhabitable. However, on reaching Okere Une ( now compressed to Okene) Itaazi's wife gave birth to a baby boy. The superstitious mindset of almost every one in the crew back then led an overwhelming majority to believe that the birth of that baby (male for that matter) was a clear and undisputable signal from God that Okere Une was the destination divinely approved for them to settle down hence only the very few less superstitious ones mustered enough courage to accompany Ozoko to the originally intended destination of Etuno which is the compressed pronunciation of "Ete ono yi" meaning "this is the originally proposed land." At this juncture it will be appropriate to explain that the recent attempt by Ebiras to substitute the Oshuku generic name with "Ebira" is borne out of the quest for more political relevance in the Nigerian scheme of things. Ebiras obviously want to use the rest Oshukus to arrogate large population figures to themselves to become more relevant since political patronage in Nigeria is largely based on numerical strength. No thanks to the unitary system which the military imposed on us. To tell you how politically motivated this whole Ebira thing is; when an Ebira man - Onuka - was the military governor of Edo State, common sense should have dictated that his focus be on Igarra which had over the years suffered lack of infrastructural development and industrialization. But Onuka hardly visited Igarra let alone bother about their plight. There is no single project in Igarra that can be credited to Onuka. If he had cut 20℅ of Edo State budget just in a year for Igarra his supposed brothers, it would have been enough to rehabilitate all roads and freshly tar all the previously unsurfaced. But while he neglected Igarra so brazenly and concentrated on other places, the Ebiras never remembered that Igarras are supposedly Ebiras like them. So they never cautioned Onuka to remember 'his' people. All this was because the Ebiras (Okenes) actually knew deep down in their hearts that Igarras are actually not Ebiras and so were less concerned. When the same Onuka killed the working capital base of Okpella Cement Factory by diverting over 200,000 bags of cement from there to his home town of Okene where he sold them at N150 each against the about N350 it was really selling, the Ebiras (Okene) people rushed to buy it without asking him if he took some to also sell to Igarra people at the same price being their supposed fellow Ebiras. However, this is not to imply that Igarra people buy stolen goods. In fact if he had brought some of those bags the Igarra people we know here in Akoko-Edo would have rejected them and placed a curse on those bags of cement. But when you call a people your brothers you at least try them with your booty of war to at least demonstrate your sincerity. All these "Ebira" nation awareness creation was triggered by the domination and acute marginalization which the actual Ebiras (i.e. Okenes) have been suffering under Igalas ever since Kogi State was created. Imagine Igalas repeatedly producing Kogi State governors since 1999. Why would Ebiras not naturally react by seeking the support of other Oshukus to make a statement against that? With an Ebira man as the Kogi governor now, haven't this Ebira generic name thing started dying a natural death? Mind you that there are Oshukus in the Yala LGA of Cross River State and they have never ever been referred to as Ebiras by Okenes because they are too physically far away to be relevant in the numerical strength which the Okenes seek for more political prominence. |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Simbrixton(m): 4:49am On Apr 20, 2021 |
NegroNtns:your comment is ignorant |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Simbrixton(m): 5:12am On Apr 20, 2021 |
PhysicsQED:ibilo aiyetoro aiyegunle dere are far more communities |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Simbrixton(m): 5:14am On Apr 20, 2021 |
macof:haha they were influenced by binis but ancestrally ife |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Nobody: 5:08pm On Aug 02, 2021 |
Nowenuse: Akoko-Edo is a conglomerate of Edo, Yoruba, Ebira (igara), and Igala (Akuku) Origin. it beat my imagination if someone coming to defend or explaining AKOKO-EDO as if you can force them to accept what there ancestors never told them. Another set of people are the Igara or Etunu in Akoko-edo whom want to force there origin and extend it to other part of akoko-edo just because igara is the head quarter of the local govt, forgotten somorika actually gave igara that land they currently occupied when they migrated from Nupe or Kogi area of the country. Igara are not up to 2 communities in Okpamari which are the largest group with language similarities of which somorika and Ibillo are included in Opkamari Group. for your information the Akoko-Edo with Yoruba heritage are more Yoruba than you think because majority of there ancestors are directly aboriginals from the present day Ondo town in Ondo State and few others from Ile-Ife. For various reasons best known to historians, there ancestors relocated through Old Benin Empire and merge with the Afemai and that was how language changes occurs. they are also clans with Benin heritage and Igala precisely.... Akoko-edo is a place where various tribes meet to form one group but dominated by Yoruba's because you can actually find them in all clans, Towns and villages in Akoko-Edo and they are directly or indirectly part of Akoko-Ondo.
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Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Bigsunny01(m): 9:53pm On Aug 02, 2021 |
aljharem3: Stop saying what u don't know we Edo people do not speak Yoruba or anyway related in language, Benin, Esan, Owan, Etsako, Urobo etc, all dis are Edo language, u should visit Edo state to be well inform about our culture 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by YungMillionaire: 12:49am On Aug 03, 2021 |
Akoko Edo is an extension of Ondo state. Stop fooling yourselves. Yoruba language is the main language in Akoko Edo. I used to go there for a project so I know what I am talking about. 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by nisai: 11:00am On Aug 03, 2021 |
9jamostgrow:Nice. Are u from Akoko Edo? |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Olu317(m): 12:13am On Aug 04, 2021 |
9jamostgrow:Highly interesting. |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Deadlytruth(m): 5:35am On Aug 04, 2021 |
YungMillionaire:Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. Your visit to the place was not the type that afforded you the opportunity and time to reside there long enough to observe and study the natives and their culture and origins critically. Those you heard speaking Yoruba there are either Yoruba visitors like you or Yorubas who are reside there for livelihood. How can an assortment of totally different ethnicities with mutually unintelligible languages and totally dissimilar cultures all be an extension of Ondo State? 1 Like |
Re: Why Do Edo People Speak Yoruba? by Jeon(f): 10:59pm On Mar 12, 2023 |
Oduduwa.
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