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Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by tpiar: 12:13am On Mar 03, 2020
Arguments for or against welcome.
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by tpiar: 12:14am On Mar 03, 2020
After colonization, reading and writing was less restricted.
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by Dartilo(m): 12:52pm On Mar 03, 2020
Nttin important to document Bro... Pple dat were running from being enslaved by diff ethnic group go get tym tke document
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by Dartilo(m): 12:52pm On Mar 03, 2020
Nttin important to document Bro... Pple dat were running from being enslaved by diff ethnic group go get tym tke document grin
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by Adeba01(m): 10:18pm On Mar 03, 2020
To be honest without the Europeans we would have been largely Oral and I would have not been able to understand nor write what I am writing
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by RedboneSmith(m): 5:46am On Mar 05, 2020
Adeba01:
To be honest without the Europeans we would have been largely Oral and I would have not been able to understand nor write what I am writing

I have a different view. Without the Europeans, Islam would have continued to make progress in Yorubaland and in time a crop of men (and some women) literate in Arabic script would have arisen, just like they did among the Hausa, the Fulani and the Kanuri long before the Europeans arrived.
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by macof(m): 2:18pm On Mar 05, 2020
RedboneSmith:


I have a different view. Without the Europeans, Islam would have continued to make progress in Yorubaland and in time a crop of men (and some women) literate in Arabic script would have arisen, just like they did among the Hausa, the Fulani and the Kanuri long before the Europeans arrived.
it still made progress despite the Europeans.

Ibadan for example had more Muslims (and less traditionalists) at Independence than in 1893
The Ajami script would indeed have spread but Islam might not have progressed any further than it has today
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by RedboneSmith(m): 2:58pm On Mar 05, 2020
macof:
it still made progress despite the Europeans.

Ibadan for example had more Muslims (and less traditionalists) at Independence than in 1893
The Ajami script would indeed have spread but Islam might not have progressed any further than it has today

When I said progressed, I wasn't only referring to spreading in terms of increasing their numeric spread.

What I was saying in essence was that had colonialism not happened when it did, Yorubaland would have come to a point where the Arabic script would have become entrenched and used to record Yoruba history to the extent that it was used for that objective in northern Nigeria.

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Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by Adeba01(m): 3:08pm On Mar 05, 2020
RedboneSmith:


When I said progressed, I wasn't only referring to spreading in terms of increasing their numeric spread.

What I was saying in essence was that had colonialism not happened when it did, Yorubaland would have come to a point where the Arabic script would have become entrenched and used to record Yoruba history to the extent that it was used for that objective in northern Nigeria.

Very interesting observations and most insightful both @RedboneSmith and @Macof.
I would appreciate the two of you if you could kindly contribute something to my post I wrote is is under the culture section. Thanks.
Re: Olden Days Yorubas Did Not Encourage Reading Or Writing, It Was Forbidden by macof(m): 4:20pm On Mar 05, 2020
RedboneSmith:


When I said progressed, I wasn't only referring to spreading in terms of increasing their numeric spread.

What I was saying in essence was that had colonialism not happened when it did, Yorubaland would have come to a point where the Arabic script would have become entrenched and used to record Yoruba history to the extent that it was used for that objective in northern Nigeria.
well said. This is quite likely as I mentioned "ajami" (which is derived from Arabic script) was already known in Yorùbáland

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