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Post by Honorebu on Jul 16, 2017 15:26:11 GMT
Laolu sebanjo!!!
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 21, 2017 15:05:35 GMT
Overwaatch the popular game adds new African characters all Yorubas from Nigeria
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 21, 2017 17:12:31 GMT
Overwaatch the popular game adds new African characters all Yorubas from Nigeria Is that an American show?
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 21, 2017 21:13:06 GMT
Overwaatch the popular game adds new African characters all Yorubas from Nigeria Is that an American show? naaaah, it is a game lol
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 22, 2017 7:27:27 GMT
Akande Ogundimu aka Doomfist Hometown: Oyo, Nigeria Doomfist in Laolu Sebanjo's Yoruba body painting skin. Orisa Efi Oladele
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 22, 2017 12:14:11 GMT
Akande Ogundimu aka Doomfist Hometown: Oyo, Nigeria Doomfist in Laolu Sebanjo's Yoruba body painting skin. Orisa Efi Oladele Immediately I saw that body painting, I knew it must have been influenced by Laolu Sebanjo. That guy is selling the Yoruba brand in the West big time. He probably has no idea lol
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 3, 2017 12:05:59 GMT
This is sexy
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 3, 2017 12:07:49 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Sept 3, 2017 20:18:37 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 3, 2017 23:42:49 GMT
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Sept 5, 2017 6:59:08 GMT
Na waa it just irks me how stuff changes from their original essence when they become popular, just because someone or some business wants to get universal acceptability. Now, stuff don change from Yoruba art, Yotuba deities etc- to African this and that.
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 5, 2017 12:01:15 GMT
I get you 100% Ogbeni Ogunnaike. It's like the case of Agbada. Now, all man dey try bite from that Yoruba wave and claiming it to be "African" like Africa is a monolith. Na one of the disadvantages of this exposure be that The guy himself doesn't sell it as a "Yoruba" thing anyway. That being said, even if he sells it as a Yoruba thing, the audience (mostly black-americans) won't still give the credit to whom it's due cos they've been wired to see Africa as a monolith. My jamo friend uses that "African" all the time despite me educating him about the different ethnic groups in Nigeria. I don't know if they never taught them that Africa is a whole continent made up of 54 countries.
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Sept 5, 2017 12:45:09 GMT
Exactly. They talk of "African this or that" like any such thing as one "African culture" exists.
Even 'African people' that is more widely accepted is still fringe imo, because Yoruba and Somali are nothing alike culturally or otherwise, except you just want to say both have brownish skin. Even Kenyans are very diffderent from us, speaking from the lifestyle perspective.
European deities, European tribe and European culture. Nansense.
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Post by omohayek on Sept 5, 2017 14:23:12 GMT
Na waa it just irks me how stuff changes from their original essence when they become popular, just because someone or some business wants to get universal acceptability. Now, stuff don change from Yoruba art, Yotuba deities etc- to African this and that. Yes, a large part of it is laziness on the part of marketers, but I think there's also another factor that's involved: calling things "African" instead of specifically Yoruba makes it psychologically easier for other African groups to appropriate the things in question as part of their own heritage, even if their own direct ancestors had no hand in them. Who wouldn't want to claim agbada, aso-oke, gele, or the Ife bronzes, as part of their own "African" identity, especially when so many other African groups have nothing comparable they can show to white people and expect to be given respect for? It's the same reason so many black people want to claim Egypt's history, or Igbos keep looking about for imaginary Jewish ancestry.
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 5, 2017 22:23:40 GMT
Na waa it just irks me how stuff changes from their original essence when they become popular, just because someone or some business wants to get universal acceptability. Now, stuff don change from Yoruba art, Yotuba deities etc- to African this and that. Yes, a large part of it is laziness on the part of marketers, but I think there's also another factor that's involved: calling things "African" instead of specifically Yoruba makes it psychologically easier for other African groups to appropriate the things in question as part of their own heritage, even if their own direct ancestors had no hand in them. Who wouldn't want to claim agbada, aso-oke, gele, or the Ife bronzes, as part of their own "African" identity, especially when so many other African groups have nothing comparable they can show to white people and expect to be given respect for? It's the same reason so many black people want to claim Egypt's history, or Igbos keep looking about for imaginary Jewish ancestry. When Beyonce released that her Yoruba-themed Lemonade album, most of the people who were pointing fingers at Black Americans for "appropriating" African culture" weren't even Yoruba. And I'm like, you're not even Yoruba and you're yarning dust. Wtfook is "African culture". Potor people do it the most, especially on Youtube When people call them out, they say we are being divisive and that we're all Nigerians. I dare say that there is no ethnic group in Africa that has made that African brand cooler than Yorubas. From our mythology to our arts, music etc. Heck! Wizkid and Davido are the biggest African exports today. Now, it's cool to be African. I remember listening to one of skepta's songs where he said African kids in the UK used to lie that they were Jamaicans These days, all man dey form Obatala and Sango lol
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