Yoruba
Culture:
The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa and 21 percent, the third largest ethnic group of Nigeria.
The Yoruba (Yoruba proper name) is an African language. It is the language of the Yoruba spoken in Nigeria, Benin and Togo and is spoken by about 30 million people.
The Yoruba are one of the largest majority of the Yoruba live in southwestern Nigeria but there are also Yoruba communities in southwest central Togo and Benin (Atakpame).In Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil are also common to find (mostly) descended from the Yoruba.
The word is Yoruba-Hausa origin and originally signified the inhabitants of the State to Oyo. An early author of a history of the Yoruba Samuel Johnson, a pastor from the late 19th century.
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