The Migration Patterns and Identity of the Okun-Yoruba People of Central Nigeria by Ilesanmi Akanmidu Paul

“…The study reveals that Okun-Yoruba people, despite their geographical delimitation as northerners, see themselves more as southerners. …”
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The Laws and Customs of the Yorùbá People by E.A. Ajisafe Moore (Undated, M. A. Ola Fola Bookshops, Abeokuta, Nigeria. 87 pages. Price $21.95 on Amazon.com) by Akinloye Ojo Ojo, Kingsley Opia-Enwemuche

“… The Laws and Customs of the Yorùbá People chronicles the prevalent customary practices and native laws of the Yorùbá people who have their ancestral home in South Western Nigeria and descendants in several cities around the world by virtue of forced and voluntary migrations. …”
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Preservation of Yoruba Indigenous Drumming Heritage by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“… The cultural and religious experiences and expressions of the Yorùbá people are mediums to their ways of life. Culture as defined is “a way of life” with both tangible and intangible elements embedded in the culture. …”
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An Aesthetic Visualization of Ritual Ordering among the Yoruba Drummer: A Medium of Life Celebration by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“… The gatherings among Yoruba people depicting religion, social or political values are usually staged with drumming. …”
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A Hermeneutic Analysis of Selected Yorùbá Pentecostal Songs by George Olusola Ajibade

“…As Christianity moved through the intellectual and political worlds, especially among the Yorùbá people of southwestern Nigeria, it acquired new categories of thought. …”
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A Sociocultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs by George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

“…It demonstrates how oral text reflects societal elements and performers use various societal elements to create an expression of an identity within the multiple currents and traditions by taking the rules, creativity, and artistry of self-representation and shaping them with cultural content, as well as with the rhythms and speech patterns of the Yorùbá people. …”
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Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances by Toyin Falola

“…The past of the coastal Yoruba people shapes their present, and this present will shape their future. …”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…This marks the beginning of a long process that will eventually culminate in future marriage. As Yorùbá people are found all over the globe, the marital rites are transferred from the original soil to the diaspora, the result of which is the syncretic practices that are associated with marital practices abroad. …”
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Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1 by George Olusola Ajibade

“…Water is a relevant and a significant variable that is also germane to the understanding of Yorùbá peoples’ identity, culture and religion. Hence, this ethnographical and literary study examines the image of water in Yorùbá cosmology using folklore (oral texts) of the people as paradigms. …”
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A Sartrean Approach to Ayé Ṣίṣe in Yorùbá Existentialism by Babalọla Joseph Balogun

“…Using the Sartrean existentialist methodological approach, the paper critically examines the notion of the world (ayé) in the existentialist thinking of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. The paper argues that although humans find themselves thrown into the world (ayé) amidst situations that are not of their own making, sometimes amidst untoward circumstances, the right mark of an authentic existence is ṣíṣe ayé which literally means “doing the world”, rather than mere gbígbé ayé, that is, living in the world. …”
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Contemporary Yoruba Heroes in Public Sculpture by Tolulope O. Sobowale, Kehinde Adepegba, Johnson O. Oladesu

“… From ancient times, the Yorùbá people held in high esteem people who occupied reputable positions in their society. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…Tis essay examines the confict to refect and suggest the need for just, peace, and unity for social cohesion among Yoruba people, and by and large, Nigerians. …”
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Iwolefu Funeral Insurance and the Socioeconomics of Burial Ceremony in Ikorodu area of Lagos State by Faruq Idowu Boge

“…Each society, therefore, has a different tradition for funeral arrangements and burial ceremonies. Among the Yoruba people, the deceased is honored with elaborate funeral arrangements incurring huge expenses. …”
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About the Name Yoruba by Stephen Banji Akintoye

“…In modern times, the Yorùba people in Nigeria have exhibited a remarkable ́ degree and quality of unity as a people. …”
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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm by Kayode Olusola

“… The Yoruba people like any other African tribe are enriched with magical and other traditional spiritual powers that are capable of invoking spirits and deities. …”
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The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“… This paper seeks to analyze how Yorùbá religion and culture proliferated so widely throughout the Americas, though Yorùbá peoples comprised so little of the total percent of slaves imported to Trinidad, Brazil, and Cuba. …”
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The Role of the Family in the Restoration and Preservation of Yoruba Cultural Heritage by Emmanuel Oluwasegun Awofeko, Olatunji Olusegun Oyebanjo, Oluwaseyi N. Shogunle

“…  Yoruba people have a unique cultural heritage which engulfs every aspect of their lives; hence, guides them in their daily activities. …”
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Notes from Field Work on the Ijemo in Abeokuta by Damilola Osunlakin, Toyin Falola

“… Until recent times, the vast part of the history and traditions of the Yorùbá people existed in Oral Traditions (OT) and Other Oral Traditions (OOT). …”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen by Toluwanimi Ibikunle

“… One of the main chords through which Yorùbá cinema connects with its core target audience – the Yorùbá people both at home and in the diasporas – is the penchant of Yorùbá filmmakers to present core traditional values, mores, philosophies and customs in their works. …”
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Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá by Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi

“…Interestingly these words only do not find their ways in Yoruba dictionary but are also regularly used among Yoruba people in Nigeria. It is recommended that further studies should be conducted in this area for the purpose of enriching relationship between Arabic and Yoruba Languages. …”
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