THE GREAT OYO EMPIRE: HISTORICAL AND MYTHICAL FACTS

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@spirithawk2418 Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear from Africans about our ancestors in West Africa. Watching from USA. My DNA result was 87 percentage Nigerian... Very proud to have that blood from many in the region

@jean17v3 Ай бұрын

Oyo, our ancestors Empire. I'm ewe from Togo, very happy to watch today ❤❤❤❤❤

@mauricemilesmartinez3743 Жыл бұрын

I am author of the books: The Great Wall of Africa: The Empire of Benin’s 10,000 Mile Long Wall, The Real Wakandas of Africa and The Real Vibranium of Africa (by Maurice Miles Martinez). In the Great Wall of Africa, I discuss the Benin Bronzes and current issues around returning them from Museums. Most people are unaware that African people built a wall before transatlantic slavery in the Benin empire that is one of the most massive structures in the world. At 10,000 miles long, the Great Wall of Africa contains more material than all of the buildings in New York City’s Manhattan. If cut into 1 meter high blocks, it would wrap around the equator more than 65 times! It is arguably the planet’s greatest man-made structure. Yet, it has been ignored by historians. In my book The Great Wall of Africa: The Empire of Benin’s 10,000 Mile Long Wall, I explore the dimensions of the wall, the history of the Benin Empire’s Kings (Obas) and the stolen Benin Bronzes. These treasures that sit in the world’s museums amount to more than $14 Billion. Most people who read this book are left wondering why they never heard about the Great Wall of Africa in their history classes. The world needs more videos on this topic that explain that the stolen Benin bronzes need to be fully returned (not just a few of them). Maurice Miles Martinez

@spindoggytheexplorer2915 10 ай бұрын

Antique shop up the street from me in Massachusetts has about 5 authentic Benin Bronze statues, each between $300-$500. He got them from a Professors collection when he passed away. I would love to purchase them and donate them to a museum in Benin but I’m just not wealthy like that. Considered buying them and sitting on them until I can afford to though.

@sojiadamo5212 10 ай бұрын

Interesting appreciation from you Maurice, please do search and research Sungbo's Eredo. Much to appreciate here also.

@ericedudzi6267 2 ай бұрын

I will, visit Oyo ,Fon, people to know more about my Ancestory as an Ewe its very deep for and gives me goosebumps...

@SohoJoe202 Жыл бұрын

I’m Yoruba, Bamileke with Fulbe and Mandinka admixture. A direct paternal descendant of the Ramesseside kings and the Cordoba Caliphate. Shalom -T Walston from D.C.

@tomiwafootball 10 ай бұрын

you have arab ancestry from cordoba?

@sojiadamo5212 10 ай бұрын

The Yoruba as so called today are vastly and variedly travelled in the ancients. Many of those who were in Spain travelled down with the Moors indeed as Moors. During the sacking of Granada, the Spanish inquisition, and the findings of the Americas subsequently Those who knew themselves as Yoruba travelled down to West Africa where they knew where their people were. It's quite an amazing history to me. And there's so much more!!

@tomiwafootball 10 ай бұрын

@@sojiadamo5212 thats not what happened bro 😭😭😭

@sojiadamo5212 10 ай бұрын

@@tomiwafootball say therefore what happened as your one sentence is already invalid as an argument if you have nothing to add. If not please fuck off!

@jasonpompey6731 6 ай бұрын

you're incorrect. This is historically documented. Many Black americans come from this stalk @@tomiwafootball

@dadajulius6489 Жыл бұрын

Nice historical information.

@Shege3706 Жыл бұрын

They didn’t spread to the americas by choice but by force under the Atlantic slave trade

@AfriasporaFilms Жыл бұрын

Can someone please explain the pyramidal structures we see at 13:07 mark?

@TIENxSHINHAN Жыл бұрын

I think it was just the way they built the roofs of the buildings

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

Pls 🙏 separate the history about Oduduwa and Oyo emperme

@GidiLad 6 ай бұрын

Oduduwa didn't come from Mecca, he came from the East according to most credible historians. He didn't fall from the sky either. The Benin Empire which is about 1000 years before the existence of Oduduwa says he's an exiled Benin prince. This is the most credible version because Benin came back for Oduduwa to rule when there was a power vacuum, but he sent his youngest son Oranmiyan in his place. Oranmiyan couldn't rule the people due to unfamiliarity with the culture, so he left to form the Oyo Empire leaving a child behind, Oba Eweka I, whose descendants have been the Oba of Benin till date.

@lolaadesina5362 4 ай бұрын

Your head is fried. Read a book. Your Benin prince existed at least 500 years after the existence of Oodua. Stick to Italy and prostitution that you're good at

@davidsallam6003 4 ай бұрын

Wrong. Oduduwa was not a prince from Benin. That's something cooked up by the late Oba Eredua to kinds of give the Benin people some millage over their Yoruba neighbor. Oduduwa neither came from Mecca like those confused chiefs are saying, the idea that he came from Mecca seems to have started after many people in the Yoruba gradually converted to Islam after the fall of Oyo empire. Oduduwa, was said to have come from somewhere in the East of Africa, and that location could be Nubians territory around the horn of Africa, in the North - East part of the continent. And when he arrived at a place which is now present Ife, people were already there.

@GidiLad 4 ай бұрын

@@davidsallam6003 There was a benin kingdom before the concept of 'yariba'. Go and learn history, Oduduwa didn't fall from the sky, he came from the east. What is east of ife? Benin kingdom. Which one is Nubians? Why didn't he come with any of their culture? And why did the Benin kingdom come back for him when there was a power vacuum? We even know the years Oduduwa ruled today because of benin history

@GidiLad 4 ай бұрын

@@davidsallam6003 According to Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; “The Aworis and Binis are known to be the first settlers of the Eko land. The Aworis are speakers of a distinct dialect close to that of Yoruba language with a rich Bini mixture. Traditionally, Aworis were found in Ile-ife; they were known to be the Binis, who followed their self-exiled prince, the first son of the Ogiso (now called Oba) of Benin Kingdom, whose stepmother was after his head. “The exiled Benin Prince Izoduwa, known to Yoruba as Ooduwa (Oduduwa), was made ruler of the Ife people due to his powers and followers from the great Benin Kingdom. “Izoduwa (Ooduwa) was made the first king of Ile-Ife in 1230 AD. His followers from his father’s Kingdom in Benin are today’s Awori people, who settled in Eko now called Lagos.

@davidsallam6003 3 ай бұрын

@@GidiLad Go swallow your rubbish with your fellow Benin people or few stupid bastard Yoruba people on this platform, who despite being Yorubas, has been helping spreading your false Benin history propaganda. Stop wasting your time, thinking you can force that garbage on my throat, I ain't got your time!

@yemi-dprince7993 9 ай бұрын

Let's turn the oral history into one or two global magnum opuses, thus erasing disunity or a pretty kettle of fish. In that wise, the future generation would read and reason whether Divinity-Philosopher Oduduwa came from Mecca, Egypt or from the abode of Creator-Philosopher Olodumare. Ase. E seun pupo.

@davidsallam6003 4 ай бұрын

Oduduwa did not come from Mecca. Some Yoruba muslims came up with that false theory because their fascination with Saudi Arabia, especially Mecca city and the Islamic religion as whole. Oduduwa, the Yoruba progenitor came from somewhere, met people ( Aborigines) already living in Ife and he was made king over them. The vast majority of Yoruba people are muslims, so I doubt wether that stupid Mecca theory will disappeared anytime soon.😢😢😢

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

Aare-onakakanfo wasn't established before Oduduwa, lies 🤣😂😂🤣 lies lies lies lies lies 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@adamasimolowo8285 Жыл бұрын

Where is the proof that Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani are one? I'm not understanding that portion.

@seismicvertigo345 Жыл бұрын

That man is annoying really, next time they should interview someone else. Too much stockholm syndrome has entered his head

@kathrinaoloyede4660 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Mo ti e si gbo ti Hausa die, ewo ni ti Fulani. Ko ri bee rara! Lailai!

@t.i.o.l.u Жыл бұрын

An empire is not necessarily homogeneous

@femibabs1310 Жыл бұрын

@@kathrinaoloyede4660 Maybe Hausa but definitely not Fulani you can even tell by the features of fulani that they are foreigners

@Faceofffoody Жыл бұрын

Fulani colonies Oyo people

@ADE-of-LAGOS Жыл бұрын

Which Mecca did Odua came from? Is it the Mecca inside Nigeria or another Mecca in Arabia. Is that the fake narrative Europeans have planted in our people's head. They can't even tell the difference between the Oduduwa in Yoruba creation story who was a divinity, and the other Oduduwa who was human and adopted the name of the divinity, Oduduwa. It's painful listening to this. The origin of Oduduwa is right inside Nigeria. That's what they have used modern day religions to hide from you. Ile-Ife is a better place to go get info on Yoruba origin. Oyo Empire is still quite recent, just couple of hundreds of years.

@p.c2750 Жыл бұрын

the history is accurate if you remove the oduduwa-oranya-mecca-God myth.

@gabrielonibudo5566 8 ай бұрын

@heepaa5183 Mecca did not exist then. Ooduwa came from Jerusalem.

@Novikestory 8 ай бұрын

@@gabrielonibudo5566this is incorrect we are from mecca

@gabrielonibudo5566 8 ай бұрын

@@Novikestory Mecca did not exist. It is a modern Arabic invention. Yorubas are from JERUSALEM

@Novikestory 8 ай бұрын

@@gabrielonibudo5566 wtf no we came from mecca because he's an idol worshipper.mecca exist that time stop this lies we are from mecca

@UPPITYUNICORN Жыл бұрын

the horse sleeps not slips, lol

@ezechinedu2075 11 ай бұрын

My LORD YOUR LORD OUR LORD I AM WHAT I AM EZEIGWE CHRISTOPHER NZUBECHUKWU INDEPENDENT OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA SEPTEMBER 28 NATIONWIDE STRIKE THANKS LORD HEAVENLY FATHER

@lolaadesina5362 4 ай бұрын

Feral

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

Mecca is out of our history. Oduduwa didn't come Mecca

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

@JJ your history was wrong Oduduwa was born in Ile-Ife. I don't know where your got your history

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

@JJ JJ I don't know your real name I would have loved to tell you about yourself, mind you before Oduduwa was born, 97 kings had been crowned in Ile-Ife. Oduduwa was not from heaven he was born and bread in Ile-Ife he was descendants of Oramfe. Pls let me know where you came from so I can tell you who u are. Pls your state, tribe and your town if you are real

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

@JJ yes our ancestors were called Elus and they were 400 from descended from heaven. If u want me to tell your about Yoruba creature firsts tell me your tribe Igbo, Ijaw, Gogobiri, Bantu, Ibaruba, Hausa pls name your tribe so I can tell u more about what u don't know

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

@JJ meaning of J J? I said where do yo come from? Your State, Town and your tribe so I can tell what u dont know

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

@JJ don't you see my name a Yoruba, Lagos and Ijebu tell me your s am not disappear

@kaomalihm284 2 жыл бұрын

its abit shame to OYO people in this era promoting propaganda about oduduwa came from mecca in the name of islamic and supremacy ,,, how many oduduwa children have white completion like mecca people ....

@Yorubaddie Жыл бұрын

Right !!!!

@lf1496 Жыл бұрын

He came from SUDAN. He was from the Nile Valley

@kaomalihm284 Жыл бұрын

@@lf1496 Nonsense...

@simbokwesi8332 Жыл бұрын

He came from Palestine by way of Igbo land. Just remixing old myths.

@AIupclose Жыл бұрын

@KAOMALIH M , You can see how you're embarrassing yourself in public space showing everyone your ignorance. When you have not travelled or done research how can you know that the original and earliest people on earth are dark (Black) skinned. Go and read about history of (KEMET) Go and find out how the (JAWARA TRIBE ) got to a distant land of India from African about 60,000 years ago. Even the biblical Moses was not White because his mother was Ethiopian (Black)....The oldest human fossil discovered in England (Europe) is BLACK skin..go and verify. I'm not here to educate you because I have better thing to do with my time. You can continue to wallow in your ignorance.

@sheriffajibolaadebayo-onis2255 9 ай бұрын

Sad, Oduduwa never originated from Mecca. The old man knew little about our origin. Stop interviewing these people.

@tayibasegbengagold5979 10 ай бұрын

This is a false narrative... Oduduwa didn't come from mecca and yoruba, igbo, hausa and fulani are not the same... This fables

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

This history is fake history. Where is yoruba compound in Mecca

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

Lies 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 lies lies lies lies

@seismicvertigo345 Жыл бұрын

Yorubas are not one with anyone above Kaduna. You better remember your history please. Do we even look like those people you mentioned

@sojiadamo5212 10 ай бұрын

Silly unread you. It is in our history that we spent a good 59-100years with the Kanur, it is in our history that we were in Merowe in Sudan for ages. Our language is so similar to both the ancient Egyptian and Hebrew. Pride alone won't tell you the truth about us, intellect and research might help more.... please grow up as it's not just because you said!

@seismicvertigo345 10 ай бұрын

@@sojiadamo5212 lol. type all that bs at someone else

@sojiadamo5212 10 ай бұрын

@@seismicvertigo345 you're quite correct as I understand you love your ignorance. Good bye

@EvwienureEjowokeoghene-uh5iq 8 ай бұрын

People are loosing it in this country

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

Hausa,Igbo are from Ile-Ife not Fulani

@ADE-of-LAGOS Жыл бұрын

I am 100% sure of the Igbo. Not yet with Hausa, though there is evidence of a relation between the three tribes. But one has to look other ancient book to confirm this.

@MKRex Жыл бұрын

Igbos have nothing to do with the Yoruba. Nothing. The Hausas and Fulani are more related to the Yoruba, than any other communities. Let's stop the bull shit.

@bunmiadeyinka8152 Жыл бұрын

@@MKRex where do you come from? U compulsory attached yourselves to Israelites without tracing. I are Igbo not Ibo trace your back is not bull shit

@MKRex Жыл бұрын

@@bunmiadeyinka8152 The Yorubas are not related to Isrealites either, that is a stupid lie by Igbos to copy the Yoruba Eastern origins narrative. It is also a lie, told by people who believe by Associating themselves to Isrealites, that would make them seem more special than they actually are. The Yoruba do not need to chase such clout. Secondly, evidence of Yoruba ancestors migrating from the East, can be shown by prevalence of the blue eye color, which originated from the Black Sea Region. Igbos do not have such a gene, but it can be found amongst Nilolithic ethnic groups, from Sudan, to North Nigeria and around the Nile. Igbos originate from the Congo Basin, they are related to Bantus from Central Africa. Their language, culture, appearance are not Yoruboid. Until 1914 when Nigeria was created, the Yorubas and Igbos had no significant interactions and barely knew of eachother's existence. There is no scientific, archaeological or historical evidence to suggest any relationship, between the two ethnic groups.

@ADE-of-LAGOS Жыл бұрын

@@MKRexYou know nothing. Zero!

@Mountainman.80s Жыл бұрын

This is the most useless and fakest story ever told about Oduduwa and the Yoruba empire ... Oduduwa is not from any mecca but an exile prince from Benin...

@LadyMJustice Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah

@akintundeoluwatobi5583 Жыл бұрын

Oduduwa is not an exile prince from Benin neither is he from Mecca. You Edo pple need to stop twisting Yoruba history. He was a Yoruba man and his son founded the Benin kingdom.

@oyewoleabiodun3897 9 ай бұрын

Oduduwa is a myth.Oramiyan is the first Oba of benin from which the kings of benin till date descended from.Check the visit of the present oba of benin to ooni of ife, where the Ooni of ife went down memory lane to state how related they are by blood, that is why no king in Edo state have the title oba except benin who descended from Oranmiyan.He was a king in ife, benin and Oyo.Check the visit I mentioned above.

@bobbybayo5755 9 ай бұрын

Name the yoruba king dat have oba

@Mountainman.80s 9 ай бұрын

@@akintundeoluwatobi5583 Ahahaha you don't know ..but I tell you,even the founder of Ife states that if the Oni og Ife is to visit The Oba of Benin ,Oni of Ife is to kill 2 black cows ,but if Oba of Benin is to Visit the Oni of Ife, Oni of Ife is to kill 7 Black cows ..Now who do you think is the founder of Ife ? Lol let me tell you the yorubas are hiding the truth from the source

@Faceofffoody Жыл бұрын

Who made Oyo an empire Oyo was never an empire

@akintundeoluwatobi5583 Жыл бұрын

Jealousy.

@ADE-of-LAGOS Жыл бұрын

It was an Empire. Is that giving you headache?

@EvwienureEjowokeoghene-uh5iq 8 ай бұрын

Source

@jeylamix6695 2 ай бұрын

How do we curb all this wanna be historians writing distorted history? Eyin wo le jo wa lati Mecca?

@nosaokuns Жыл бұрын

Yoruba and fake history. Hausa and Fulani are Yoruba now? Omo na wa.. Benin is a Yoruba land na wa? Una strong ohh. Just because people in Brazil worship Ifa does not make them Yoruba. Most Yoruba today are either Christians or Muslims are they Arabs or Hebrews? Religions and ethnicity are two different things my people. They are more Angolans and Congolese in Brazil please stop this propaganda. Half of Oyo was conquered by the Fulani and that’s why a lot of Yoruba stole Benin land when they moved to Eko and now calling it their land

@ADE-of-LAGOS Жыл бұрын

You Benin people. One just have to laugh at all these false narratives. How big is Lagos self. Funny, my own ancestor was among the first to settle in Isheri-Olofin part of Lagos, all the way from Ile-Ife. It's also possible other people already occupied another part of Lagos, especially Eko. But that word "Olofin" connect Isheri-Olofin directly with Ile-Ife. Please throw away "bad belle" and spend time in doing research. How big is the Yoruba ethnic group and how big is Benin. Nonetheless, both are connected. You do not know history as far back as 4000 yrs. Or do you. Those with knowledge of that deep past will not come arguing over shallow issues. Yorubas and people of Benin are related. Ditto.

@nosaokuns Жыл бұрын

@@ADE-of-LAGOS show me one proof that the Yorubas ever owned Lagos and I’ll keep quiet. The British were the ones that took Lagos from its original owners and made it part of Nigeria and because it’s in the western region Yorubas just started claiming it as their own. It’s funny how you people act as if you know history and think that you know better than the kings and white cap chiefs of Eko. So, we should all ignore the monarchy who are the custodians of Eko and forget all the maps and documents that shows that Benin founded Eko, but we should listen to you internet historians. Una de kolo. Rubbish!

@EvwienureEjowokeoghene-uh5iq 8 ай бұрын

Olofin is a made up name just like oduduwa, Lagos mainland was originally occupy by people from Benin republic, even the British governor in Lagos colony refer to mainland people as Dahomies

@Novikestory 8 ай бұрын

@@EvwienureEjowokeoghene-uh5iqyou are a liar you are just jealous if Yoruba history fact and logic will always win

@Novikestory 8 ай бұрын

Yoruba people are enslaved to Brazil yes they are 100% yoruba,they worship ifa even oni of ife went to Brazil you can't tell us our history while we are civilizing you guys are still in the bush naked.

@dianasohn2515 Жыл бұрын

I’m looking for the truth of when they sold other black ppl. Why is everyone sugar coating it

@haatpraat2993 Жыл бұрын

Many Africans do not like to admit their ancestors engaged with white racists to capture and sell fellow Africans into slavery in the Americas in exchange for guns, alcohol and cheap trinkets. This is because it is really as bad and as awful as it sounds.

@waleabdulhamid4522 Жыл бұрын

was it only oyo that sold other black people?? tell me your tribe and I shall tell you your history... we were culprit and we were victims of slavery.... the fact that oyo empire remains the greatest empire below the Niger river is unquestionable.. and the greatest empire to have existed in Nigeria bar sokoto caliphate and arguably kanem-bornu empire.

@haatpraat2993 Жыл бұрын

@@waleabdulhamid4522 Most west African societies at that time engaged in capturing and selling each other. The Oyo used to sell other Africans, then once they got weak other Africans used to sell the Oyo. The whole set up and set of moral values within west Africa at that time was not just wrong, it was plain evil because they jumped into bed with evil.

@haatpraat2993 Жыл бұрын

@@waleabdulhamid4522 I do not have a 'tribe'. I am not a tribal person.

@AfriasporaFilms Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know right, like when the Saxons sold the Celts. Or like when the Romans sold the Saxons. Or like when the Greeks sold anyone white from anywhere north of Greece into slavery. Or like when the Turks sold Slavs. In fact the word “slave” comes from Slavic people because so many of them were sold as slaves by white people who looked just like them. Go figure. 🤷🏾‍♂️