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Yorubaland en · PROPN

Etymology

From Yoruba + -land.

Meanings

1. The homeland of the Yoruba people in the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo in West Africa.
   • In some parts of precolonial Yorubaland, […] twins and their parents were either banished or ritually slaughtered. 2024, J. Shola Omotola, Samuel Oyewole, The Political Economy of Kidnapping and Insecurity in Nigeria, page 156:
   • The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves. 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 14:

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Relateds

Igboland · Hausaland · Isokoland