Ẹgbẹ́ Ọmọ Yorùbá Kansas City
Ẹgbẹ́ Ọmọ Yorùbá Kansas City is a non-profit organization. The association provides the platform for the sustenance of the Yorubas through various events that promote social interaction, economic empowerment, community services, growth, and development of our people. Our platform does not only benefit the organization but also the community that we live in and those around us as well.
As a community development-oriented organization, we have unique attributes and experiences in developing our communities and people. We educate our children, build and clean our neighborhoods, cherish our rich traditions, and love the opportunity to be in America.
We engage in the group and the community’s educational development by providing scholarships, lectures, tutoring on the Yoruba language and cultures, and supporting the community health fairs.
Who are the Yorubas?
The first obvious answer to this question is the Yoruba are a nationality, numbering about 50 million, the majority of whom live in the Western part of Nigeria in West Africa. While their primary concentration is in Nigeria, they are also found in other West African countries and throughout the entire world as well.
Obvious as this answer is, it is not wholly explanatory, and certainly, it is not without its own controversy. First, regarding its explanatory status.
One has to add, that the Yoruba are people, that speak a common language, Yoruba, which belongs to the Kwa group of the Niger-Congo linguistic family, and it has about 12 dialects; they are a well-urbanized group with genius in arts as symbolized in the famous “Ife Bronzes”; that Yoruba people are also found in Togo, Benin Republic and in other parts of the world, including Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, and the United States.
Second, regarding its controversial status, one has to confront the question of what makes the Yoruba a nationality, or a nation, not a tribe or clan, and how one then marks a distinction between Yorubaland and Nigeria.
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