Oyo Empire: BASIC NIGERIAN HISTORY #9
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Dr Catel discusses the yoruba people, in particular the Oyo empire. It's beginnings and structure. Here we also learn a little about the yoruba religion and orishas such as oduduwa, obataala, oranmiyan. The origin story of the people can be classified as a myth or legend.
BNH is going to be like a crash course (or an edutainment series) on Nigerian history, but along the way will also touch on other parts of West African history.
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Can you do a basic Nigerian history on the Yoruba orishas
I teach history in school and your video has just summarised everything I need to teach for my class. Thank you so much 🤗
Not everything here is true
Wow... My mum comes from the Yoruba speaking part of Togo. The place is called Ile ife
Now this is some great history. My mother is from Haiti and her lineage goes back to Benin/Togo at 35% and Cameroon/Congo at 51%. Now I see why Haiti was able to overthrow the French being that our people were very resistant to being controlled since Africa under the Oyo Empire. Interesting indeed. Great video!
Fearless Maluba nah. Most likely her descendants were From Dahomey(which counts in a way since they were tributaries to the Oyo empire) and Bambara. Makes sense since most Haitians come from those two places.
@DKhisa the country is different from my kingdom. Where your folks from!? We did try to resist for. Everyone though. But then Portuguese. Check Ronu’s piece on the kingdom #9 I think
Yes the Oyo Empire slaves were very submissive.
Yes im from New Orleans.louisiana..my 7th great grandmare' waa from Ewe/Dahomey..louisiana history wrote a book about her..last name Kokwe/ kwikwi..mispelled..but her name meamt 2nd born daughter in Glidzi dialect
oyo empire is in Nigeria
my brother you are doing an amazing job.
Oromiyan histories top player son. His game so on fleek he be founding cultures with his seed. Og level god. Explains a lot about my people too. He definitely from Benin with this forger that obatala thing
My dad didn’t have some of this info. He can’t operate “CZcams” it’s why I asked you to do more work on #9. He just might make a donation. He’s that impressed. Lovely stuff Ronu
Pls keep it up I am enjoying it, am a lover of cartoons and the use of the cartoons makes it awesome!
Ododuwa was a prince that was banished from benin.
This is great!!!
Oranyan is the first alaafin Oyo, he left ajaka as a regent but after staying longer than expected made ajaka the alaafin. On oranyans return He learnt that his eldest son in Oyo had been made king.. he retreated to oko where He also became the first oloko and alaafin oko... it was sango that move the capital from oko back to Oyo ile..🥂
Awesome
Nice work. I like the graphic illustrations and the story telling. Keep it up.
Bro you should link up with home team history and from nothing. This channel can really grow. There is alot of good stuff on here. Btw can u do a video on the battle if Igodomigodo?
Word your Black American audience would explode!
Why did you make it seem like all Yoruba speaking people were under oyo empire ??? Even the people in ondo ?
Please a video of Yoruba - Fulani battles and Tiv - Fulani battles
nice work sir
Yoruba origin is very controversial. Good job brother on the Oyo empire.
Please Dr. Catel give us a low down on Kiriji war
Thanks sir you are the best
This is Amazing!!
Can I get a name for the track you were vibing to on intro.
Great video editing, good video
Glad you enjoyed it
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The origin stories Dr Catel choses to share in these videos are LEGENDS (or in some cases pure MYTH) and it's therefore possible that they contain falsehoods or are untrue. This is because there are no written records of the true origins. Various different origin stories were transmitted orally by different peoples and Dr Catel is simply choosing to share the ones that he finds most interesting.
Also bibliography and sources can be found in the description
You are not entirely wrong probably you don't want to delve deeply. Oranmiyan formed Oyo on his way back from his war expedition to Khartoum, Sudan. Where he brought back many slaves and warriors . That was why Oyo was formerly called Oyo- Khartouga. Khartouga was used to refer to the military quarters of people from Khartoum. He was the first Alaafin and he was succeeded by Ajaka when he left for Ife and the Oyos thought he would not return.
As for Oduduwa, he was not the founder of Ife. The history of Oduduwa was that of an era/dynasty that snatched power from the Obatala group and this led to the dispersal of some groups from Ife.
You are really doing a great job by making it shot and simple.
This is nice..
Keep up the good work!
What was the music in the beginning cause that was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yoruba song and music
👍 Nice 👍🙂
D only first class yoruba king known to history is d alafin of Oyo who happens to b d second son of oranmiyan while the oba of Benin is d first son of oranmiyan, d ooni is a priest assigned by d alafin of oyo to take care of oduduwa shrine in ife not to sit on oduduwa throne bcos he's not worthy to sit on it as he does not have d blue blood of oduduwa,,oranmiyan happens to b d heir to oduduwa throne while d oba of Benin is d heir to oranmiyan, oduduwa is d heir to ogiso throne in Benin ,,d throne in which d oba of Benin sits on,ogiso had only one son named oduduwa, oduduwa had 7 children out of which d first two are girls and oranmiyan is his third child and first son making him his heir according to tradition,,oranmiyan first gave birth to eweka in Benin before he went to Oyo ,therefore eweka is d first son of oranmiyan before oranmiyan gave birth to d second alafin of Oyo who is his second son,,,d Yorubas sees oduduwa as a God but the Edo's know he is not a God but the son of ogiso,,after oranmiyan left Benin he couldn't stay in ife bcos his father (oduduwa) was still alive nd he can not leave in the same palace with another king after sitting on d ogiso throne in Benin, so he left for Oyo and bcam d first alafin of Oyo,,upon d death of oduduwa he (oranmiyan)was called back to became d king but he declined on d ground dat he was already a king in Oyo and so he asked d slave priest(ooni) to take care of d shrine in ife,,upon d death of oranmiyan his second son was crowned d second alafin of Oyo and he also declined going back to ife on d ground dat d ife throne does not belong to him but belong to his fathers first son (Oba of Benin) who was already sitting on a more ancient throne in a more developed city (benin ),,and so d ooni lineage continued as keeper of d shrine but never sits on d oduduwa throne,,,,,,from dis little explanation I have to say d Oba of Benin is more higher and mightier dan any Yoruba king,,
In your dream...
Mumu, u guys are always obsessed by Yorubas. Yoruba influences are everywhere in the whole wide world, while Edo / Ile Ibinu has no influence anywhere. Educate yourself fool
Can you do a section of how The Benin Republic kingdom connects with Oyo Kingdom? Thank you for choosing history, I want to tell the next generation the history of Africans
The Dahomey kingdom in today's Benin republic was conquered and made one of the vassal states of the Oyo empire until the reign of King Ghezo who stopped paying tributes and repelled the punitive forces sent by the Alafin to punish him at that time
On the Aremo picture that image was actually taken in foumban capital of the kingdom of Bamum
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ODUDUWA went to igodomigodo, mate with a woman and she gave birth to a son named eweka.
Do you even know what you are saying?
@@destinyovbiebo8988 Hey, do yourself a favor by more reading and research before making such comment to me. Ignorance breeds stupidity.
Love your videos big brother just subscribed today I always wanted to know what went down in the homeland thank you for your incitement stories much support
What is this song playing at the end please ?
Yoruba people are in benin and togo not because of oyo empire but because they're indigenous to that area. Nigeria was created after Yoruba so you can't claim Yoruba people are in those nations because of oyo empire
Ronu you have finished my M’B.
It’s important to note that not all of the current day southwest was under the Oyo empire.
Mr ROnu can you plz tell us about the The capital of Cross River State ,Calabar
What’s the name of the music playing in the beginning
Crusader Kings 3 led me here.
Hi, great video. What's the name of the song at the end
Griot122 shakiti bobo by Kenny black a comedian
Bashorun is prime minister while Are ona kakanfo is the commander of the army.
Always great work. Folks from the land don’t know half of what you know to be honest. Yo
Edo Odion
Noah Ehimanre come on Oyo got smoked by us if u know u know.👏🏿#Edo odion
You guys are a confused bunch! You came from us 😂
Good
Dude you didn't mentioned the ooni
Good video tho, thanks.
#OduduwaRepublic #OyoEmpire
OGA ME TRY BETTA
The story is obatala was a bini prince who saved Ife from oppression of obatala
What are you saying ,? Obatala save Obatala or what ?
@@olayordeyraphibian384 Its English, let me make it simple. A bini prince saved the people of ife from oppression of obatala.
Well no history has made us know that ,your lost son came to Ife ok, and if be ,I wonder why odudua didn't conquer Ife for Bini ,instead his son now wanted to conquer Bini for Ife , try and think over this ..
@@olayordeyraphibian384 so where did he come from the sky. As a logical person does that make sense to you. I believe personally that binis and yorubas are the same people divided by monarch we can't stay this long beside each other without heavily being related. So if his a bini prince or he came from the sky it doesn't matter
@Naija guy there is a truth and its most likely what it logical, like migration, exile, fear for loss of life, and more not coming from the sky thats illogical hence a myth. Its a sign that such people are trying to cover a shame. Could have been he conquered Ife, defeated obatala, gave them their first monarch and more. Because it wasnt easy to rise to kingship those days without a divine right or a special lineage.
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Please who is this obala?
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Alaafin was the Emperor of the empire
Why Benin city is 2 in the world please
Benin City is one in Nigeria but there’s the country Benin and other Benin’s
Good job but You got odudwa’s history wrong but there are a lot of theories in this your video that is wrong
Bru toooooo short, some content deserves 15 to 35 minutes
Ajaka is not the first alaafin,ok
Oranmiyan is
Perhaps you don't understand the story, Ajaka is the first official king after Oranyan. As at then Oranyan travelled all around and he is not settled in one place.
The Aare ona kakanfo was the head of the Oyo army not the Basorun.
Shango Yoruba or Babylonian? The priesthood in general was called shangu, which may mean ‘sacrificer,' and there is little doubt that at first, as among other peoples, the Babylonian priest was practically a medicine-man On the basis of comparative studies between the dynastic tradition of the Qyo-Yoruba and ancient Near Eastern history, the present article argues that Yoruba traditions of provenance, claiming immigration from the Near East, are basically correct. According to Qyo-Yoruba tradition, the ancestral Yoruba saw the Assyrian conquests of the Israelite kingdom from the ninth and the eighth centuries B.C. from the perspective of the Israelites. After the fall of Samaria in 722 B.C., they were deported to eastern Syria and adopted the ruling Assyrian kings as their own. The collapse of the Assyrian empire is, however, mainly seen through the eyes of the Babylonian conquerors of Nineveh in 612 B.C. This second shift of perspective reflects the disillusionment of the Israelite and Babylonian deportees from Syria-Palestine towards the Assyrian oppressors. After the defeat of the Egypto-Assyrian forces at Carchemish in Syria in 605 B.C. numerous deportees followed the fleeing Egypto-Assyrian troops to the Nile valley, before continuing their migration to sub-Saharan Africa.
you try, but please to a better research bedore presentation
Sàngó Fon ati Yoruba
PLEASE I BEG NAH
I like your video Sir but please pronounce all the names properly. Thank you.
i still wonder why some yorubas who are christians that believed in the creation of the world and the creation of man,, to now also believe that oduduwa fell from sky and created the first people of ife , now you want to tell me that as a yoruba you were created by Obatala? i laff at their Ignorance.
Oduduwa, is The exiled Prince Ekaladerhan who had by this time changed his name to Izoduwa (meaning 'I have chosen the path of prosperity') whom the Ife people now called Oduduwa. When his father the Ogiso died, the Ogiso dynasty officially ended.
The people and royal kingmakers preferred their late king's son as the next to rule. Oduduwa, could not return due to his advanced age, he now granted Bini Oranmiyan, his grandson, to rule over Bini, and this is the second dynasty of Bini's.
and this is the only part of history which the yorubas have settled upon to say the founded the people of Benin, Bcx oduduwa sent his grandson, forgetting this same Oduduwa is a son of Bini or rather they deleted and kept the true origin of Oduduwa a secret and said he fell for sky,
so they can claim to be first, good thing is that the history has been re-writing the truth is out for years, but the yorubas have been thought lies and wrong history, and they are still kneckbent on it, if you are yoruba, think well, where you created by God or by Oduduwa who fell from sky with cockkriel and seeding, then now molded the first people of ife with clay for the soil and also created the earth and forest?
abeg just think well..
you can study both history for yourselves and tell me which is more truthful.
(Ife) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E1%BA%B9
(Bini) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin
You are delusional and confused, mumu. You guys always envious of Yoruba, but all have Yoruba names with Yoruba dirties all over Ile Ibinu oo. Damnnn Envy and jealous is a big disease
Are you okay ?
no, the presenter is a mallam therefore does not know anything about the Yoruba race
Most of Sub-saharan are not consider true Empire like Austria empire, Mughal Empire(famous with taj mahal and red fort), Ottoman Empire, Umayyads Empire/Arab empires, British empire, Spanish Empire, Russia Empire, Mongol Empire, Empire of Japan, and Majapahit Empire(indonesia-Malaysia today), Khmer Empire(Cambodia, Southernmost Vietnam, Loas and Thailand today), Oyo, Benin, Ashanti and Dahomey are consider just Kingdom, not because it small or lack of monument, architecture wonder, canal, dam, University, hospital or technology it because it not empire, it same with korea and Malacca empire, both Korea and Malacca is not empire.
Benin was not a kingdom but an Empire in ancient times. That was why the extent of it stretch was called the bight of Benin
You sound dumb. You all wrong.
Yoruba themselves dont know their history...Oranyan is What egyptian called Ra shango is Horus
So igbos know their history
Overlaps and similarities don't mean they're the same thing