The Yorùbá tribe is the largest tribe in Africa with approximately 60 million people within Nigeria. They are a group of people steeped in millennia of traditions, customs and beliefs.

The Yorùbá language is one of the principal languages spoken in Nigeria and in some surrounding West African countries. The Yorùbá language, culture and religions are still prominent in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti and the Caribbean.

First and second generations of the Yorùbá people can be found in North America, United Kingdom and parts of Europe. They are an ever evolving and migrating people. According to the BBC and the Daily Mail of London in 1990, a Yorùbá king was the LAST ruler of Egypt circa 3,500 B.C., making Yoruba the oldest race in all of Africa.

 

If you wish to learn Yorùbá culture, learn to speak Yorùbá or just want to learn Yorùbáproverbs, you could not do worse than learn about the Yorùbá gods in preparation of meeting the Yorùbá deities. The Yorùbá deities that require Yorùbá personal pronouns need to be on the Yorùbá personal pronouns list. You might consider purchasing the best Yorùbá students book, how Ọ̀ṣun, yoruba fertility goddess chiefs pronounce words in Yorùbá.
As an issue of Yorùbá proverbs, Ṣàngó, the god of thunder and lightning knew a thing or two about the Yorùbá language student who wanted to learn the language of Yemọja, the language of Ọbàtálá as well as the language of the Yorùbá people. So, the question is: who are the Yorùbás? Know anything about Yorùbá spirits and deities at all? Go to https://www.yorubatoday.com/intellectual/ and follow the link to go purchase your own copy of the Glossary of Yorùbá Proverbs as well as Ìwé Akédèe Yorùbá.