Who Are The Yoruba People?

Sign up for an annual Curiositystream subscription with 42% off and you'll also get free access to Nebula (a streaming platform I'm helping to build along with other creators). https://curiositystream.com/cogito Yorubaland is the homeland of the Yoruba people. With a population of 46 million the Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. The Yoruba built one of the largest empires in West Africa and crafted some of humanity's finest art. Their artists are famous worldwide and no other African culture has affected the Americas and Caribbean as much as the Yoruba who left their mark through people, dance, food and the religions of Santeria, and Candomblé. So who are the Yoruba, what is their history, and what does it have to do with a Galactic Universe Creating Chicken? Well, let’s find out. This video was researched and written by Deborah Oliveira. The illustrations were created by Chico De La Historia, https://twitter.com/ChicoDLHistoria IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON PLEASE SEE HERE. ​​https://www.patreon.com/CogitoEdu Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/CogitoEdu Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT MERCHANDISE teespring.com/stores/cogito-store Sources and Further Reading: VIDEOS https://youtu.be/fRy92OJCtcY https://youtu.be/J2se_zimj40 https://youtu.be/W16fKzrTb8M https://youtu.be/I_hJwWEgarI https://youtu.be/mXwDTHYUPV8 https://youtu.be/0O7_-_iA1cc BOOKS A History of the Yoruba People by Stephen Adebanji https://www.amazon.com/History-Yoruba-Stephen-Adebanji-Akintoye/dp/2359260057 Encyclopedia of the Yoruba by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi Adebisi Afọlayan - Yoruba language and literature Niara Sudarkasa - Where Women Work A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home Oyekan Owomoyela - Yoruba Proverbs Baba Ifa Karade - The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts Miguel C. Alonso - The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia A. G. Hopkins - An Economic History of West Africa Samuel Johnson - The History of the Yorubas (Old source but an iconic work in Yoruba history) OTHER SOURCES Black sand and iron stone: iron smelting in Modakeke, Ife, south western Nigeria https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/93632/ Ancient History of Technology in West Africa: The Indigenous Glass/Glass Bead Industry and the Society in Early Ile-Ife https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317775780_Ancient_History_of_Technology_in_West_Africa_The_Indigenous_GlassGlass_Bead_Industry_and_the_Society_in_Early_Ile-Ife_Southwest_Nigeria https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ZgWB6Y0ZViQKJw https://artsandculture.google.com/story/_QVxsVP8AxQtIw https://artsandculture.google.com/story/qwXhr4ObJk0-JA https://artsandculture.google.com/story/LQXhfRllJNZnOA * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language#Writing_systems https://www.jstor.org/stable/40341607?seq=1 https://www.worldhistory.org/Oshun/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160922-the-nut-that-helped-to-build-a-global-empire https://artsandculture.google.com/story/12-facts-you-need-to-know-about-ife-art/TQWB2S-ClCrcNw https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-africa/west-africa/nigeria/a/head-of-a-ruler-ife https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1939-34-1 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/feb/24/kingdom-of-ife-british-museum https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/history-rediscovered-sungbos-eredo-nigerias-lost-yoruba-kingdom-2/ https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/africa-apah/west-africa-apah/a/olowe-of-ise-veranda-post-yoruba-peoples https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-africa/west-africa/nigeria/a/igbo-ukwu-an-overview https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Yoruba+peoples sortBy=Relevance pageSize=0 https://collections.lacma.org/node/175464 https://www.hamillgallery.com/YORUBA/YorubaCrowns/Crown08.html https://escholarship.org/content/qt17c6d1sb/qt17c6d1sb.pdf?t=q56r34 http://plantworldnews.com/2022/02/whats-in-your-pot-african-cuisine-included-leafy-greens-and-yams-over-3500-years-ago/?fbclid=IwAR32eChDFz6699EF69d7i6uE-ceWvOoXQlKfqUI-pm6hrQbC-PTXixeWG4I https://www.academia.edu/5793680/Food_and_Culture_Continuity_and_Change_in_the_Yoruba_of_West_Africa_and_Their_Diasporas_2014_ https://www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/Promoting-the-beauty-of-Yoruba-traditional-fabric-of-Aso-Oke-for-international-consumption-and-sustainable-development.pdf https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.%2022%20Issue9/Version-7/G2209074751.pdf https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/adire-tied-and-dyed-indigo-textiles https://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/TeachingKit_YorubaArtAndCulture.pdf PODCAST About beads https://archandanth.com/episode-145-interview-with-abidemi-babatunde-babalola/ Music by Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.com/creator Video/Images provided by Getty Images and Archive.org Maps provided by maptiler/Geolayers #History #Yoruba #Animation #Africa