Osun State monarch and paramount ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has condemned what it described as historical inaccuracies in a media report (not PUNCH Online) concerning the only female ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has chided the British Broadcasting Cooperation, BBC, Yoruba language over the alleged distortion of Yoruba history.Oluwo reacting to a documentary aired by ...

Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has berated British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for distorting Yoruba history. The monarch, reacting to BBC’s documentary in a statement yesterday, said ...

The palace asserted that Oduduwa himself used the Alaafin title ... “Luwo was the heroine, and no woman has surpassed her history. She was our mother,” the palace declared, adding that the ...

Oluwo Akanbi says BBC goofed in the story it told about Luwo Gbagida, the only known female monarch of Ile Ife.

Oduduwa used the title of Alaafin ... Luwo was the heroine and no woman has surpassed her history. She was our mother.

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It explains why Oba Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, still says the Ijebu are not Yoruba and are not even descendants of Oduduwa. It also explains why ... ‘Terranova’, and The Origins of the ...

In Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka celebrates the Yorùbá people’s belief about human existence, the continuity of life ...