“Ennobling the Yoruba Culture”

Ennobling this great heritage, culture and language of the yoruba’s is a worthy endeavor to undertake and continue to share with the world it’s rich history, heritage, traditions, culture, and language that is spoken by sixty million people around the world.

The Yoruba people primarily reside in the western region of Nigeria, the country’s second-largest ethnic group, but many Yorubas also live in neighboring countries such as the Republic of Benin, Ghana, and Togo. Due to the Atlantic slave trade to the Americas, Yoruba language and culture can be found today in Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, due to the fact that most of the slaves brought to America were from West Africa, many African Americans are direct descendants of Yoruba people. In the Yoruba culture, all Yorubas—including those in the diaspora in America and beyond—are descendents of Oduduwa, the progenitor of the Yoruba race.
Oduduwa, Olofin Adimula, and First Suzerain of the Yoruba, was the Oba of Ile-Ife. His name, phonetically written by Yoruba language-speakers as Odùduwà and sometimes contracted as Odudua, Oòdua or Odua, is generally ascribed to the ancestral dynasty of Yorubaland due to the fact that he is held by the Yoruba to have been the ancestor of their numerous crowned kings. Following his post-humous deification, he was admitted to the Yoruba pantheon as an aspect of a primordial divinity of the same name.

As a descendant of Oduduwa It is incumbent on us to continue to expose and share this great culture to the world and bridge the generation gap among our children to embrace their culture and language.
I am presently a active member and past President of Odu’a Organization of Michigan for the past twenty five years.

Odu’a Organization of Michigan, is a 501c3 organization that was officially founded in 1993 and is the namesake of Oduduwa. The organization works to promote the Yoruba culture; to provide social avenues for fellowship, for community activities, and for networking; and to serve as an educational resource on African culture for African Americans and for other citizens in the Detroit Metro area and throughout Michigan. All of the Odu’a programs are designed for both children and adults.
The Odu’a language and cultural school is the vehicle through which these educational programs are delivered. Our Yoruba language, heritage, traditions are our valued assets that the organization has being sharing with our larger community.
A new generation of young leaders are leading Odu’a Organization to greater heights and plan on relaunching Odu’a language and cultural school as the center piece of delivering the programs to benefit our community and the larger Detroit metro area.

With new younger leaderships in place, it give the older members an opportunity to support the Odu’a Organization in various other ways and also an opportunity to pursuit our passion and my passion is still the dissemination of our cultural (Yoruba) heritage to the world. This ileoduduwa the source blog give me the opportunity to research and share this beautiful extensive culture of the Yoruba’s to the world. I welcome my guests that share the same interest in EVERTHING YORUBA.