The Untold Connection: Nigeria and Trinidad
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Orisha is a colorful and misunderstood religion practiced in Trinidad and Tobago with ties to the Yoruba culture of Nigeria. A spiritual tradition with celebrations of food, drums, dance, and prayer.
Trinidad Orisha's beginnings and development in the Caribbean "can be traced back to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when Africans were brought to the island to work on colonial sugar plantations.
Over time, as local religions were suppressed under colonial rule, Orisha practitioners disguised places of worship using Christian paraphernalia, which eventually began to be used in some ceremonies. Some Catholic elements were adopted, and as globalization continued and cross-cultural engagement intensified, the religion adopted increasingly diverse practices and beliefs from around the world, entangling into the syncretic religion it is today.
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I am a proud Yoruba 🇳🇬 descent born in Trinidad 🇹🇹 . I love all my African brothers and sisters. We are one. Olodumare blessings
I have a Nigerian father and a Trinidadian mother. My mother left Trinidad in the 60’s and moved to Nigeria where she met my father a Yoruba man. Unfortunately I don’t speak Yoruba because my mother is Trinidadian and we were speaking English at home. I feel naked not knowing how to speak my native tongue.
I have been living and working in Trinidad since 2003. I have a 13 year old daughter who does not speak Yoruba because again, her mother is a Trinidadian. The trend continues with my child not being able to speak Yoruba. This is very unfortunate when we don’t ensure that our culture continues within our bloodline. We miss out on our identity as African people. I was born and grew up in Nigeria and moved to Trinidad in 2003 where I have since learnt a lot about my heritage as an African and more importantly, a Yoruba man. I am slowly but surely weening off the western attire and culture and slowly getting accustomed to my Yoruba identity.
Ẹ ṣe!👍🏿👏🏿✊🏿
@@BabaKiiSunKeep working at it my brother. You're getting closer and soon you'll be there. Eledumare agbewa o. Ase.🙏🏿
@@ibaileibaomo7660 thank you
Hello hailing from Brooklyn NY of African descent. It's almost impossible to tell you where all my ancestors came from and migrated to. But I must confess learning my roots and history of Africa and being of Caribbean descent (Dominica, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad) is an honor. Also, do you know of the Gullah Geechee in the USA? The Gullah Geechee people are the descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved and brought to the lower Atlantic states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia to work on the coastal rice, Sea Island cotton, and indigo plantations. Please come and visit here. We are all one! One Love!
Yes I’ve heard of the Gullah Geechee people but they are not very popular. I wish I could get a grant and go and do a feature documentary on them. Do you have access to film grants or any educational or NGO funding that can invite me over for about a month and I can get detailed information about them?
As the Baba said, Wode Maya is making his own contribution to connecting the African people of the motherland with the African people of the diaspora. We as African people need to wake up and UNITE before it is too late.
I am a Yoruba descendant of Afro Cuban y Afro Puerto Rican Nigerian descendant parents 🇨🇺🇵🇷 I'm a child of Yemaya and my whole family are orisha priests. Maferfun Bobo orishas Alaafia 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
That's lovely! I am Proudly Yoruba! 😘
Welcome blood brother. I am a Yoruba man from the motherland.
Visit home sometimes.
Home is waiting for you. Please come and visit your people.
Yemaja
Oh my Wode Maya. You are doing what I have always wanted to do. That is connect African languages, Spirituality, traditions, food even dress. Making the connections between The Caribbean, the americas and other places where slaves were taken to . Thank you so much young man for the work and travels you are doing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are much more similar than different.
I love the way you connect with all Africans…home and abroad. Thank you….I went once to Ecuador and I could see Yoruba traits all over the place. We are a strong resilient people. God bless Africa ….we are one, we should overcome all the divisions.
If Africa can unite and even get one currency, Africa will be a great continent.
Can we give this young man Wode a round of applause and support him for his work. He has really gone a great distance to spotlight these connections.
@wodemaya I wish you all the very best in 2024.
It is amazing and surprising seeing my people in Trinidad and Tobago. Wow! Just like home In Yoruba land. Very authentic. Love from a Yoruba boy living in Rickmansworth Hertfordshire,England❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
We are living a global village.
As an African I have so much pity for my fellow Africans who consider everything African to be evil.
Unfortunately
Anyone who watches Bigger than Africa documentary on Netflix will need not be amazed, hearing our people sing sad songs of enslavement in Yoruba will make you shed tears and wish we in Africa can prepare a better place for them to come back.
Prepare a better place for your self first, they are better offer here
@@user-wm9oz5nk3qwhy this response it was so unnecessary.
@user-wm9oz5nk3q you are in no position to speak the mindset of the people, and if you are bitter towards yourself, that's just you. It necessarily doesn't cut across the others, there are many that will love to explore and call Africa home or at least make it a second home.
Fix your shit country
African home and abroad one people one DNA. I'm grateful for this . Iba Ancestors
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“When they get into trans, they start speaking their mother tongue “ it’s freaking amazing .You’re a king bro.
I was surprised to hear Wode Maya say that about the indigenous peoples of Suriname. They spoke a certain language from Ghana that he understood when they were invoked by the spirit. The Lord is great.
Thank you Wode Maya for embarking on this incredible journey so that not only people in Africa but us here in the diaspora can be proud of our religion and our culture. What a magnificent people, what a magnificent culture.
The African continent is a very rich continent blessed with great wealth and abundance in different cultural practices that still has me amazed to this day.
Thanks for showing me around boss
You are most welcome
Wode Maya when you were in Suriname, you said the indigenous people did not want you to record their own shrine at home. Was it similar to the shrine you witnessed in Trinidad?
Did the indigenous people give you a reason why they didn’t want you to film their shrines?
After you filmed the shrine in Trinidad and you saw the start of the Egungun festival in Trinidad as well, what are your thoughts about the way the Orisha devotees operate in Trinidad compared with that of Suriname and Brazil?
@@BabaKiiSun Ile Ifa, Ifa Ile
African to the world 👏👏 wode maya 🙌🙌
God bless yorubaland,, there's Yoruba village in South Carolina U.S.A, called OYO Tunnji.. they have there own King 👑..
Thanks for sharing this information. Is there a link that you can share with us about this place so we can get more information about it?
South Carolina actually,
Despite all the hardships and the people being forcibly relocated against their will the religion survived in initially hostile environments. Amazing.
We Yoruba people are a very resilient set of individuals.
Love the love.... Wode Maya getting from Caribbean people😍😍😍
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Yoruba to the world , the most culture, most educated and intelligent tribe in the whole of Africa.
We are Proud of our language and our heritage. The British still can’t comprehend how we are able to maintain and sustain our cultural heritages and traditions.
🇳🇬😎💯💯🙏
Pls lets not bcome chest beaters like those ppl. Omoluabis r known for our diplomacy
RESPECT 💯
I was in Nigeria..the hausa was running things they don't care about English..
Hey we are all scattered to ,the four corners of the world 🌎 their are twelve tribes and there are still in existence today.Hallelujah we have not been forgotten and we are here in .TnT 🇹🇹lot of people eyes will be opened an know that.The twelve tribes lives thank goodness we have not been forgotten ❤
Thank goodness we have not been forgotten in truth.
What 12 tribes? 12? What are you talking about?
Love from Abuja Nigeria Africa ❤🎉❤🎉❤
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Yes we are so happy to see our culture.
Yoruba people from Nigeria in Trinidad.
They visited Trinidad in the 60's and 70's
I love what I've just learned. You see, here in Jamaica I'm one of too few, who questions the religion we practice. My contention is quite simply this, we are Christians or Muslims BECAUSE the barbarian who enslaved our ancestors, was one or the other, and IMPOSED his practice on us. Had they been say, Buddhists or Hindus, then we would have conformed to either. There is a man here who spent time in Nigeria, and was introduced to Islam there, who asserts that all Christians should be unalived. The poor fellow is lost in his delusion.
I strongly feel that a belief system that is imposed, SHOULD BE REJECTED out of hand, and that is my practice. Until I learn more about the beliefs of MY ANCESTORS, I happily remain a non-believer. As Africans are a more civilized people, I don't have labels thrown at, or attached to me. Peace and Love.
By the way, I LOVE the look of that sister. Natural African looks, no awnings for eyelashes, and NO relaxed hair which we'd better understand, came into practice because the barbarian enslaver decreed that our hair was not good. The only hair type which protects the human skull from the harmful rays of the sun, is not good. Go figure.
New sub from the Maya family here
Welcome!!
YORUBA .
Yes O!!
My nigerian husband, say im not from Africa, whatever history books say, cannot be trusted. Im from Trinidad, i was surprised. He said Africans travelled to the Carribbean and South American long before slavery, over the alantic . We traded long before the white man. I then understood why there is so much discrimination between the continent and the despora. They never saw us as lost children.
I don't agree with him, I believe you are an African..
Very interesting. I wish there were more facts to prove that Africans travelled to the Caribbean before slavery.
The British imperialists forged entity Nigeria has held the glory of the Yoruba people hostage using it to promote the evil imperialists and their surrogate independent Nigeria.
The Yoruba Nation has embarked on a self determination and full sovereignty process backed by the Yoruba foundational spirituality led by Oduduwa under the authority of Olodumare for the glory of all Yoruba people across the world.please pray along for the success
this are yoruba guys who visit this country in the 70's
I am a Yoruba Descendant from Sierra Leone we are called Creole or Aku. Our heritage never died off. 🇸🇱🇳🇬
Happy to hear that. Where are you based?
@@BabaKiiSun Yes my brother I’m based in The Washington DC area your should do a documentary about the Yorubas of Sierra Leone we are well alive and our culture never died off it continues thriving till this day. But it’s not all Sierra Leoneans that are Yoruba only the Creole which are the Christian Yorubas and the Akus are the Muslim Yoruba brothers we share the same culture just different religion that’s it
@@user-bi8qs2hl4iwhats the difference between krios and creole? But krios founded seirra leone n built nigeria,thats some hidden history.i believe the krios founded the orisa relgion also n spread throughtout nigeria.
@@Zenollan Good Question ok “Krio’’ is the language and ‘’Creole’’ is the tribe it’s numerous heritage that they have like some might Igbo heritage and European, From America,Ashanti Etc, but the Yoruba was the only tribe that survived the rest died off even though you might have some of there names but there culture wasn’t strong like the Yoruba Creole is just a way of life the white called us that to hide our identity
@@Zenollan Good Question ok “Krio’’ is the language and ‘’Creole’’ is the tribe it’s numerous heritage that they have like some might Igbo heritage and European, From America,Ashanti Etc, but the Yoruba was the only tribe that survived the rest died off even though you might have some of there names but there culture wasn’t strong like the Yoruba Creole is just a way of life the white called us that to hide our identity
There's a yoruba village in Souh Carolina usa
Cool. Do you have information about it that you can share on this thread?
@@BabaKiiSun I don't know much am still learning about it
The link to Oyotunji villageczcams.com/video/T-TIagVONkk/video.htmlsi=qyRcLH1st0btWxbg
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I think it's near Beaufort, SC
YORUBA NEED TO PRAY AND WORK VERY HARD TO GET YORUBA NATION BCS YORUBA IS NO1 AND MOST POPULAR RACE IN THE WORLD
Courtesy of selling your people, a sign of betrayal.
Thats so deep thar he could understand the language of the spirits ib Surinam
Benin people would the say they found Lagos and even Yoruba culture. Why did Yoruba culture spread so wide across Caribbean and beyond and Benin cultures didn't?
Good question for a discussion
Don't mind them! It's a political point their Ọba was trying to score against the Yorubas, a tribe the Benin people also belong to. But he failed woefully in the attempt to rewrite Yoruba's history. He appears to be a messenger for some politicians with that dubious agenda. Alas, it was a "Dead On Arrival" message!
They didn't say they find Yoruba...... the find Lagos and not Yoruba. Point of corruption. Peace.
It's d benin Kingdom that sold yoruba out to first Portuguese second to British in eko..
@AfricansEyes And so strange that now, Benin people are a servant to the Yorubas. We controlled and always had been under the Yorubas ever since. We dictate the tunes now.
Thanks of Trinidadian❤
Thanks
Love this 😍
Thanks.
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Hello WodeMaya my favourite boy from Ghana. Could you please check out the Ethiopian Orthodox church in either in Trinidad or Tobego?
I know where it is in Trinidad. What will you like me to do for you if I go there?
Thank you
You're welcome
@@BabaKiiSun would love to learn about the Yoruba culture if you don't mind sharing
Gr8
Wode Maya just say Yoruba..... Nigeria is a mirage.... Yorubaland was balkanized into republic of benin,Togo, Ghana etc....colonial thugs did us dirty at Berlin conference
THIS IS GREAT ONE PEOPLE ONE NATION
@WodeMaya
You are wrong for saying some africans think its a fiction. Stop this analogy.
Histroy and slavery print is all over those regions most affected by slave trade.
@@jinmi7832 : I'm not saying the history started then, I'm only saying his statement about some africans think slavery is fiction is not true.
There is a place called Ebo gulley in Tobago.
Ebo gully is in Les Coteaux Tobago
What is Ebo gulley famous for in Tobago
@@BabaKiiSun the name is synonymous with the Igbo people of Nigeria.
@@lyriswalker8203I hope @wodemaya had a chance to visit Ebo gulley in Tobago. I am curious to find out if they speak the Igbo language there and follow the Igbo cultural traditions as well.
@@lyriswalker8203 Ebo gulley connotes or indicative of a place, a location, a ravine like environment for offering sacrificial offer or a shrine. "EBO" is sacrificial offer in Yoruba.
I am decended from igbo people via Trinidad Grenadines Brazil and Fon also Ashanti most black and latino people in Americas are through transatlantic slavery many Tribes enslaved not just Yorubas.Petro Ezili Dantor Chukwu
Hmmmm very interesting
Looks like igbo looks like iyoruba with a little bit of Edo, please you people should listen to odumodublack ft black sheriff woto woto seasoning
It’s not Nigeria in Tobago. It’s Yoruba in Tobago. There’s nothing called Nigeria. It’s meaningless
You're a lost African! U no get sense!
Go claim them
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Wode Maya every thing is in the bible Deuteronomy chapter 28 verses 1 to 68 . The whole Bible is about us the African or 12 tribes of Israelite we disobey GOD and was scattered in the four corners of the earth 🌎 so every you go you will find us until we keep GODS laws commandments and precepts .Genesis ch 2 v7 Revelation ch1 verse 1 to 16 . Genesis ch25 v 25 we are idiolaters . There is one GOD YAHAWABASHIM AND JESUS YAHAWASHI. Goggle the grab for Africa. You are intelligent the work you are doing is for GOD 😊.
Great!
Bear in our mind that Yoruba or Nago is not only predominated in current Nigeria.
Yoruba is also part of ex Dahomey (current Benin Republic) and partially in Togo Republic.
Think Vodun ou Vaudou, then we are talking about Ex Dahomey Kingdom...( The Fon people ou Adja Tado people across West Africa)
Please we need direct flight Caribbean to West Africa (les Antilles - Afrique de l'Ouest) vice versa.... Business men ou government, the balls are in your court as I really to visit Caribbean regions from direct flight not via Europe/USA (slave master regions domination on Caribbean regions or African politicians are nuisible and divisive for forging brotherhood bond between us)
Action not talk!
Demonization .... Oh yes!