This weeks guest is Oloye Lekan Awojoodu, the President of Isokan Yoruba, a Pan Yoruba Organization. The topic of discussion is – The Yoruba in North America. 

The term Yoruba describes among other things, a collection of people linked  by geography, language, history, culture and religion. The Yoruba of West Africa are located in southwestern Nigeria, neighboring Benin,  Togo and other locations around the world.  The Yoruba are one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, the other two being Hausa and Igbo.  In addition, they constitute among the largest ethnic groups in Africa. The Yoruba language belongs to the Niger-Congo branch of the great Congo-Kordofanian families of West Africa. 

The principals divisions are the Egba, Egbado, Ekiti, Ife Ijebu, Ijesa, Lagos, Osun and Oyo, Ile-Ife is generally considered the religious capital and Oyo for a long time was the political and military capital of the Great Oyo empire.  The Yoruba are a highly urbanized people that live in large, densely populated cities.

Isokan Yoruba is a Pan Yoruba Organization devoted to the promotion of Yoruba values and culture