Who are the original Africans? The scientific evidence
The origin of humanity has been the subject of much speculation and scientific postulations, but the mist around these uncertainties has been cleared by recent scientific findings. Learn more..
February 2019
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Cosmology: The Yoruba Worldview
‘As above, so below‘ is a popular phrase in metaphysics. In Yorùbá, igbá aiyé (world’s calabash, symbolic of the cylindrical shape of our globe) – see diagram above – represented by the circle as a symbol of universality. Igbá aiyé suggests that the Yorùbá worldview comprehends a spherical globe long before the Galileos and Copernicuses of this world refuted the early position of Christendom, that the
The Origin of the word Yoruba
Did you know that the formal use of the word Yoruba was initiated by Bishop #AjayiCrowther in an effort to creating a Yoruba dictionary?