Yoruba

[ yawr-uh-buh, yohr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural Yo·ru·bas, (especially collectively) Yo·ru·ba

Yoruba

/ ˈjɒrʊbə /

-bas-ba a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the coastal regions of SW Nigeria: noted for their former city states and complex material culture, particularly as evidenced in their music, art, and sculpture
the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family

This is why Americans speak English even though more of us are ethnically German or Yoruba.

And Marta Moreno Vega, an Afro-Caribbean expert on Yoruba philosophy, seems to dare you to sum up her ethnicity.

Hence, blue, red, and yellow may be designated as the colors of Yoruba or Central Africa.

The domestic trade among the natives in the interior of our part of Africa—Yoruba—is very great.

Labour might be brought from Yorubaland close by, and a Yoruba colony has been experimentally started.

Ibadan is the capital of one of the Yoruba states and enjoys a large measure of autonomy.

It was carried at the point of the bayonet by the Yoruba troops, who proved themselves fully equal to the Hausa.

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