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The neglect and bastardization of our cultural heritage -Aare    

The advanced learner dictionary defines culture as all the arts, beliefs, social instructions of a community, race, nation etc.

Taylor {1902) define culture as that complex whole, which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws customs and any other capabilities acquired by man as a member of a society.

            This article focuses on the neglect of the rich Yoruba culture. The INFLUXES of western culture and civilization have had negative effects on our youths who are supposed to be custodians and vanguards of our cultural heritage. The stupendous mess of our cultural values by the educated youth knows no bound. Children born and bred up by Yoruba parents prefer speaking English language to Yoruba language. In fat, very few students studies Yoruba language in our tertiary institutions. The once cherished language is now neglected to the alters of APATHY AND HATRED.

            Foreign cultures have eroded our own mode of dressing like the awesome tsunami. The educated sons and daughters of ODUDUWA are now in the habit of dressing like the pampered European magnates. Agbada, Dangodo Sulia, buba and sapara which are some of the beautiful dresses cherished by our FOREFATHERS are now abhorred by the so called educated youth. Most of our women prefer NECKLACES to LOCAL BEADS, ILEKE is no more popular as it were in the good old days. Also "OFI AND EPINRIN" the father of all clothes are no more common in the wardrobes of our "civilized" women. This is simply NAUSEATING. click here to read details

YOUTHS AND THE PROBLEM OF “ADJUSTMENT" – Chief (Mrs.) Solomon Bolanle   

societies all over the world are a minor or major way the pressure emanating from their young people. Our nation is concerned about involvement of youths in cultism, student protest, smoking sexual behavior, drug addiction, youth revolts and other criminal practices.

            The young man as an individual has to pass through many problems, starting from those created by himself, some imposed by the home and his immediate environment and  others that are purely developmental and psychological. The youth would not be pleased to be addressed as a child or as an adult and he constantly reminds us elders of his ability to take care of himself

            It would be of interest to mention the issue of youth acting collectively to protest against “adult society” and its system. This youth react in a way they have not done before, they have been forced through stresses and pressures of live to seek support from one another and assert themselves as an independent section of the society whose wants, ideals and aspirations are largely neglected.
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Origin of Omu-Aran - SOLA ADENIKEN

The history of Omu-Aran town can not be completed without relating it to its place in Igbomina land history and to the larger Yoruba race and Ile-ife, the cradle of Yoruba Civilization.  Omu-Aran town was founded five hundred years ago as at 2002, when the first chronicle of Omu-Aran was Published.  The Omu-Aran community came into being as a result of outward movement from Ile-Ife.  These outward movements of people were in four phases, and the one relevant to the people of Omu-Aran was “The Private entrepreneurial post Oduduwa Migration”.

At one time in Ile-Ife, there was famine occasioned by prolong drought, and necessitated the consultation of Ifa Oracles by the divine Priests at that time in order to find solution to the famine problem.  It was the priests that pronounced Ile-Ife as been overcrowded and therefore prescribed emigration as the panacea.  click here to read detail

POLITICS

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Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom, Alaiyeluwa Oba (Dr.) Abdul Hameed Olayiwola Adeyemi III

"CIVILISATION STARTED FROM YORUBA KINGDOM" - ALAAFIN OF OYO

HE ALAAFIN OF OYO KINGDOM, Alaiyeluwa Oba (Dr.) Abdul Hameed Olayiwola Adeyemi III is a monarch with class. He is an enigma by every standard and a chance meeting with him is like an expository adventure through a school of history.
The very urbane monarch, who worked as an insurance officer before heeding the natural call of the gods, through the Oyomesi to ascend the throne of his fore-fathers as the Alaafin of the greatest kingdom in the history of the black race - The Oyo Kingdom - is a man at home with himself at all times, as he exudes confidence in all his dealings.
One enviable highpoint in the life of this great monarch is his deep knowledge and high sense of recounting historic events with facts and figures; and with an accuracy that'll beat the imagination of youthful intellectuals. The Alaafin, at his age still remembers events of over a hundred years old, and still writes his scripts unaided. He is a consummate reader and would pass any day, for a professor of ancient/modern history and archaeology.
He spoke to a team of Focus editorial staff recently in his expansive palace, on a wide range of issues, bordering more on the rich heritage of the famous Oyo kingdom. Welcome on a historic excursion!
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I'm a thorough-bred Yoruba man – Obasanjo

                               The balogun of Owu Kingdom
MY father, who was by every measure, the most successful farmer in the
village and in the Ibogun area, was a proud Yoruba man and he told me
about Oduduwa, the founder of the Yoruba nation.


From left: Chief Obafemi Olopade, OFR, Chairman at the occasion;
former President of Ghana, Mr. John Kuffour; Abyna-Ansaa Adjei,
author; former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; Mrs. Bola Obasanjo;
former Governor of Jigawa State, and Senator Ibrahim Saminu Turaki,
representing the Senate President, at the presentation of the book
'Baba's Story: Nigeria is 50' , authored by Abyna Ansaa Adjei, in
Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Lamidi Bamidele.

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Papa had heard this story from his own father, Baba Alarobo, who had
heard it from his father, Baba Elesin. Papa said this story had been
told for hundreds of years in our family in this 'father-to-son' way.
Although, my father never stopped teaching us Yoruba culture, proverbs
and tradition, he made us also respect the language, the culture,
traditions and way of life of other people living in the village.

FOR the first time since some Yoruba leaders alleged in 2007 that his
biological father was not a Yoruba man, immediate past President,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has opened up on the matter.
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Kwara Bombshell: Saraki Is An Egba Man, Ex-Ambassador Reveals

Kwara Bombshell: Saraki Is An Egba Man, Ex-Ambassador Reveals
thenews/pmnews .A former Nigerian Ambassador to Cote D’Ivoire, Alhaji
AbdulGaniy Folorunsho Abdulrazak has declared that the godfather of
Kwara politics and the Turaki of Ilorin, Dr. Olusola Saraki, is not
from Kwara State but an Egba man from Ogun State.

In an interview published in this week’s edition of TheNEWS

magazine, Alhaji Abdulrazak narrated how he became a close friend of
Dr. Saraki’s father, the late Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki and what the
older Saraki told him about his ancestry.

According to the former ambassador, Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki visited
him one Sunday at home and they had an important and historic
discussion.

Alhaji Abdulrazak recalled: “He asked me where I come from. I told him
I am from Ilorin. Alhaji Saraki said he was an Egba man from Abeokuta.
By this time I did not even know the existence of Olusola Saraki. So,
the man told me he was from Abeokuta but he went to a Quranic School
in Ilorin at Agbaji, an area reputed for Islamic scholarship. The man
with his own mouth told me he was an Egba man from Abeokuta. This was
in early 1963.” CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS