"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
Ekaabo....
I will like to define Yoruba-Nostalgica as the study of the historical characteristics of the entities that makes up the Yoruba race, their sociological and anthropological make up, from the ancient times, through slavery and the birth of the colonial boundaries such as Nigeria.
While some part of our history are very nostalgic and worthy of praise, we must strive to have a balance understanding of both the happy and sad episodes of our history, that have led us to our present day formation. More importantly, there are elements of hate doing their best to rewrite our history by creating lies to fit in their psychological war against the Yoruba race. This is the reason why this study will also include the neighbours and other groups that we have come across before our collapsed civilization, or due to the colonial boundaries.
One of the purpose of the thread is to create a form of repository for books and records written about the Yoruba people and their neighbours. It's also a place to share knowledge and information about periods, important figures and timelines. Discussion of various subjects are welcomed. Contributors can post snippets, photos or videos of their findings.
Places to gather information:
First and foremost , Google. Another important site is archive.org, where history books can be found.
NOTE! Some of the authors of these books are very racist, but the juice of their works is the little knowledge we can squeeze out of it, to create a broad understanding of those era.
E se pupo.
Last Edit: Feb 24, 2016 2:25:28 GMT by oduabachanal
Post by colonial pikin on Feb 24, 2016 0:37:07 GMT
"In many parts of West Africa tribes may be classified into people of the land and people of the water.In Nigeria,the home of the Yoruba speaking peoples,we may take the Jekri and Ijo as representative of the latter,the Yoruba proper and Bini as examples of the former.The Jekri woman is a "water-dog";she goes up river in her canoe,paddling on alternate sides when she is alone,to bring food down to the settlements,for she does not plant.She is clean and comely,she wears a shoulder cloth of red,blue or yellow European stuff with bracelets of silver or brass.
Her house is on the waterside,and she helps to build it of wattles,among her other occupations is the making of rough mats.She decorates her cheeks and back with a series of round dots.
The Ijo women is like the Jekri:their husbands make for them the canoes which they need for their trade in smoked fish ,captured with hook and line,traps or spears.As becomes a people who live by the water their huts are built on piles.The tribal mark of this people is a deep scar down the forehead and nose.
The Yoruba women on the other hand are "land-rats".They,too are great traders;they do no planting ,but travel daily from town to market,starting at 5 a.m.Bargaining goes on till about eleven and then they make their own purchases and set out on their homeward way,often with sixty pounds of load and the indispensable baby.The Yoruba woman is of slender build,she has good taste in dress, and wears mainly dark-hued raiment and a dark turban.So ingrained is her love of trading that even the wives of civilized natives cannot resist the temptation of it, just as the Englishwoman falls a victim to the delights of shopping,even when she has neither money nor credit with which to make her purchases."
Post by colonial pikin on Feb 24, 2016 0:41:24 GMT
Egba Girls selling food
Source:Women of all nations,a record of their characteristics,habits,manners,customs and influences by Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942; Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Published: 1908 Volume 1 Publisher :London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Pages: 442
Post by colonial pikin on Feb 24, 2016 1:20:58 GMT
"The Bini woman wears fewer clothes as a rule ,often only a loin cloth:when she has more,they are in the Jekri fashion.Her chief ornament is coral ,but the chiefs' wives wear brass anklets and bracelets.Common women wear the hair brushed up and cut short, but the king's wives have elaborate coiffures- three great knobs of hair surmounted by coral beads.
Bini women do not go to big riverside markets like the Yoruba ,they visit places some two or three miles from the water,and here they meet the Jekri.Their towns are chiefly on the hills, and they have to go down a mile or more to fetch water.Here,as elsewhere, the women are potters;and their material is kaolin got from the river beds.The products are not so elegant in shape as in some parts, but they are large-a cooking pot will hold ten gallons.
Unlike the women of the west ,the fair sex in Benin undertake the weaving as well as the carding; the cotton is spun with the aid of a stick,round which it is wound as it is finished.They also dye their goods with indigo and other colouring stuffs.Indigo they make from three kinds of plants-two creepers and a shrub;magenta is imported;for brown they use a weak solution of black.
Infant betrothal is the cause of the lack of fidelity of Bini women to their husbands.Many women arriving at the age of puberty are handed over to comparatively old men as third or fourth wives ,and find themselves with the duties of a slave.Many chiefs have over 200 wives not all living in the same village or town ,but scattered over the country.In many cases the husband,on visiting one of the outsiders ,finds she has been living with another man, and has children by him.Formerly it was the custom for the husband to sue the adulterer and thus make a handsome income.
On the death of the husband , all those wives who have not borne children to him pass to the eldest son.Often a wife will not declare the parentage of her child till the death of her husband."
Source:Women of all nations,a record of their characteristics,habits,manners,customs and influences by Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942; Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Published: 1908 Volume 1 Publisher :London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Pages: 442
Omo see racist yarns .Nobody likes the Negro.Indians,Whitey,Arabs,Jet-lis
Maaan no be small tchin
I already warned o..More to come. The juice part is where he classed Yoruba women as 'a race of trading women'. Also bini never travelled by water, so all the claims by bini that they own niger delta is put to rest. The fun part concludes by introducing us to the whorish nature of the average bini women, although there are those(especially edo and ibo men) who insult Yoruba women as the adulteress of Nigeria.
Last Edit: Feb 24, 2016 2:09:39 GMT by oduabachanal
Post by colonial pikin on Feb 24, 2016 2:35:59 GMT
"Yoruba and Bini live in far more substantial houses.If you enter the women's quarter of the house ,at the left hand of the building ,you find yourself in a roofless passage with the rooms of the wives on one side.In the passage are cooking utensils,the beds are raised platforms of dried mud ,seven to eight feet long,allowing for the fire at the foot of the sleeper.The whole interior is black with smoke ,and attached to the rafters are calabashes,mats,hoes,cooking utensils, and jujus(charms).In many cases a kind of oven is made under the bed and heated,this is only used in very cold weather ,but fires are kept going all year round.
Bini women ususally wear native loin-cloths ,which sometimes serve as a pad on their heads when they have loads."
Source:Women of all nations,a record of their characteristics,habits,manners,customs and influences by Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942; Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Published: 1908 Volume 1 Publisher :London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Pages: 442
Source:Women of all nations,a record of their characteristics,habits,manners,customs and influences by Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942; Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Published: 1908 Volume 1 Publisher :London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Pages: 442