The Yoruba are unusual in Africa in their tendency to form urban communities. Today many of the large cities in Nigeria (including Lagos, Ibadan, and Abeokuta) are in Yorubaland. The old Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was traditionally one of the largest states of West Africa. It dominated both Benin and Dahomey, but after 1700 its power slowly waned. At the beginning of the 19th century, Fulani invasions, slave raids from Dahomey, and the growing contact with …showed first 75 words of 434 total…

…showed last 75 words of 434 total…entirely different. The importance of this is the idea of continuous transformation.Transformation is the other part of the fundamental orisa ideas. For the Yoruba, these rituals are more than celebrations. They are journeys from one realm of knowledge to another. The importance of this cannot be stressed enough as the notion of life and everything one does as a journey is at the heart of all Yoruba thinking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** World History School Book