We engage in the group and the community’s educational development by providing scholarships<\/a>, lectures, tutoring on the Yoruba language and cultures<\/a>, and supporting the community health fairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Obvious as this answer is, it is not wholly explanatory, and certainly, it is not without its own controversy. First, regarding its explanatory status.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n \u1eb8gb\u1eb9\u0301 \u1eccm\u1ecd Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 Kansas City \u1eb8gb\u1eb9\u0301 \u1eccm\u1ecd Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0<\/h3>\n
Who are the Yorubas?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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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.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Degree_of_Presence_of_The_Yoruba_and_Yoruba_derived_groups_in_Nigeria_Benin_and_Togo_at_Subnational_levels-300x233.jpg\")
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 \u201cIfe Bronzes\u201d; 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.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/omoyorubakc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC_3415-150x320-2.jpg\")
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