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Yorubas Descendants Of Arabians ; A Legend Or The Truth? by rokisammy: 10:42am On Sep 19, 2018 |
When I was in secondary school my Yoruba teacher told me a story of how Yorubas came to Ife from Arab according to her "Lamrudu was the leader and he had children, one of his sons (I don't remember his name), went abroad to study , there he became a Muslim and came back to Mecca to preach the religion but the people refused the religion, it resulted into a war where lamrudu was killed, his son Oduduwa escaped with some people, they trekked for 90 days to Ile-Ife (Homeland of Yorubas)" asides my Yoruba teacher's story I've read this somewhere else, now the thing is I've met Yorubas who deny this story, I've checked Wikipedia it doesn't mention this particular story and I've believed this story for a long time now ............... my question is "is this story true or not" This is not suppose to be an insult but the Yorubas I've met care less about their own history and origins Cc:odumchi Cc:bigfrancis21 Cc:Fulaman198 |
Re: Yorubas Descendants Of Arabians ; A Legend Or The Truth? by 0balufonlll: 7:22pm On Sep 19, 2018 |
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Re: Yorubas Descendants Of Arabians ; A Legend Or The Truth? by rokisammy: 8:08pm On Sep 19, 2018 |
0balufonlll: Whoa, thanks for enlightening me this much, The book I read backed the story saying most of Yoruba words were coined from Arabic e.g Yar-ha-ba - Yoruba Al-ba-ssa - Alubosa, e.t.c what confused me the most was why they allowed our schools to teach us such a fable |
Re: Yorubas Descendants Of Arabians ; A Legend Or The Truth? by 0balufonlll: 10:11pm On Sep 19, 2018 |
rokisammy: Yoruba did not comd from Arabic. Other words that came from Arabic were borrowed in recent times due to trade between Yoruba & Northern peoples. History as a discipline is being killed by Fed Govt. 1 Like |
Re: Yorubas Descendants Of Arabians ; A Legend Or The Truth? by Olu317(m): 11:01pm On Sep 19, 2018 |
Interesting..... Pas commentaire |
Re: Yorubas Descendants Of Arabians ; A Legend Or The Truth? by bluke(m): 7:57pm On Nov 08, 2018 |
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