See Olumo Rock Visiting Hours & Info below:
Monday – Sunday:
09.00-18.00
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588R+GMJ, Ikija Rd, Ikija, Abeokuta 110101, Ogun State, Nigeria
The Yoruba people (Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by the Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 50 million people in Africa, are over a million outside the continent, and bear further representation among members of the African diaspora.
The word "Yoruba" has roots in a term Ori Obba meaning "the Head King". In the work, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains c.1863, the English ethnologist Richard F. Burton reports of a Yoruba account in 1861 stating this. Based on oral and written sources, this name existed before the 1500s. It was applied in reference to the Yoruba sociolinguistic group as a whole. Synonymous terms such as Nago or Anago, Lucumi or Olukumi, and Aku, used in identifying the Yoruba people, is also widely used in areas where ethnic Yoruba, all or sub-groups can be found.Ref: Yoruba names
By the 8th century, a powerful kingdom already existed in Ile-Ife, one of the earliest in Africa. It was viewed by the Yoruba as capital of the realm of humanity, based on the oldest pre-dynastic traditions of it being associated with Oba Tala, Sango, Yemoja, Oduduwa, Orunmila and a host of primordial beings believed to have descended from the heavens (Ode Orun) in Yoruba godlore.
