Yorùbáland

A form of Yorubaland — The homeland of the Yoruba people in the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo in West Africa.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Yorubaland.

    In Yorùbáland as a whole, long narrative ijálás may be more frequent.

    1971, Black Orpheus, page 5
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    The Ẹ̀gbá and Ifẹ̀ chiefs, representing prominent Yorùbá-speaking clans in the southwestern region of Yorùbáland, were known to have welcomed missionaries and incorporated new techniques of knowledge forms to achieve victorious political ends.

    2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 165

    With Awólọ́wọ̀’s death in 1987, the daily and unending struggle to claim, and/or succeed to, his legacy, creed, position, authority, aura or eliteness, has been central to understanding the politics of Yorùbáland.

    2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22

Origin

From Yorùbá + -land.

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APA

Yorùbáland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1land

MLA

“Yorùbáland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1land. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yorùbáland,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1land.

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