🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Yorùbá)
One of Africa’s great civilisations; oríkì praise poetry and ìkómọjáde naming.
Customs they practice
3 recorded rites, each with its steps and its WHY.
Ìkómọjáde · the Yoruba naming day
On the seventh (girls), ninth (boys), or eighth day by family practice, the Yoruba child is carried out and named before family, with symbolic foods placed on the tongue and the oríkì declared.
🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba
The Yoruba introduction and engagement
The Yoruba two-act path to marriage: a formal introduction of the families, then the engagement day run by the alaga ijoko, with letters read aloud, prostration, and the gift list.
🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba
Iwa oji · the breaking of kola
Across West Africa no serious gathering begins without kola: the nut is presented, blessed by the eldest, broken, and shared: "he who brings kola brings life."
🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬 🇳🇪 🇬🇭Igbo · Yoruba · Hausa
Names from this tradition
52 names in the decoder, meaning first.
Ayọ̀délé
AI-aggregatedJoy comes home.
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)
Olúwaṣeun
AI-aggregatedGod, thank you.
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Babatúndé
AI-aggregatedFather returns.
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Adébáyọ̀
AI-aggregatedThe crown meets joy.
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Fọláké
AI-aggregatedHandle her with wealth; cherish her.
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Táíwò
AI-aggregatedThe first twin: sent to taste the world.
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Àyàn
AI-aggregatedwe have joy
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Kọ́lá
AI-aggregatedwe have wealth
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Fẹ́mi
AI-aggregatedlove me
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Ọmọ́wúnrà
AI-aggregatedchild is precious
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Títí
AI-aggregatedeternal
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)
Bándélé
AI-aggregatedcome and meet us
Given name🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬Yoruba (Nigeria)