RANDOM FACTS ABOUT YORUBA PEOPLE THAT PUT NIGERIA ON THE GLOBAL MAP.

FACTS ABOUT YORUBALAND & PEOPLE THAT PUT NIGERIA ON THE GLOBAL MAP.

These are some known facts about the Yorubaland and their people which takes them outside the shore of Africa.

1. The richest estate in Africa is found in Yorubaland
2. Yorubaland has the largest music industry in Africa
3. Yoruba movie industry is one of the largest movie industries in Africa
4. Lagos, Yorubaland, has the 7th largest GDP in Africa, and among the world’s top 30
5. Yoruba spirituality is the most popular Africa Spirituality practised outside of Africa.
6. Yorubaland, topped the 2021 ranking for best tech start -up cities in Africa. Big tech like Paystack, Flutterwaves, Jumia, Konga, Andela were all created by Yoruba people
7. First Black African person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature is a Yoruba man.
8. The first TV station in Africa was founded in Yorubaland. Oct 31 1959, that later be became NTA(Thanks to Nigeria).
9. Yoruba land can boasts of different genre of music Apala, Juju, Fuji, Waka, Afrobeat are genre developed in Yoruba land
10. Afrobeat was developed in the late 1960s led by Fela Kuti, with drummer Tony Allen, both Yoruba.
11. Yoruba cultures and spirituality is the only African cultural that survived Atlantic slavery..
12. Yoruba has the largest twin rate in the world..
13. If Yoruba were in Europe, it would be the
14. 3rd most populous country in Europe.
15. Yoruba has more population than 45 countries in Europe.
16. Aso-Oke also called Ofi is a type of hand-made fabric usually done by weaving and this art of weaving and styling of this particular fabric material originated from the Yorubas.