[Source](http://clipart-library.com/clipart/212096.htm)
**INTRODUCTION**
I was surfing sometimes on the internet and I came across different cultures, ethnics. Display of their culture in arts, music, drama even to lifestyle was a beautiful thing and it really made the word beautiful. I will like to share about my culture, ***Yoruba***
**BODY**
Yoruba culture consists of folk/ cultural philosophy, religion and folktales. They are embodied in Ifa-Ife Divination, known as the tripartite Book of Enlightenment in Yorubaland and in its diaspora. Yoruba cultural thought is a witness of two epochs. The first epoch is a history of cosmogony and cosmology.
The Yoruba people (Yoruba : Ìran Yorùbá , lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá , lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central
Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin . Together, these regions are known as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute over 40 million people in total. The majority of this population is from Nigeria, and the Yoruba make up 21% of the country's population, according to the CIA World Factbook , making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa . The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language , which is tonal , and is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native speakers.
The Yoruba share borders with the Bariba to the northwest in Benin, the Nupe to the north and the
Ebira to the northeast in central Nigeria. To the east are the Edo , Ẹsan and the Afemai groups in mid-western Nigeria. Adjacent to the Ebira and Edo groups are the related Igala people found in the northeast, on the left bank of the Niger River . To the southwest are the Gbe speaking Mahi , Egun , Fon and
Ewe who border Yoruba communities in Benin and Togo. To the southeast are Itsekiri who live in the north-west end of the Niger delta . They are ancestrally related to the Yoruba but chose to maintain a distinct cultural identity. Significant Yoruba populations in other West African countries can be found in Ghana , Ivory Coast ,
Liberia and Sierra Leone .
The Yoruba diaspora consists of two main groupings; one of them includes relatively recent migrants, the majority of which moved to the United Kingdom and the United States after major economic and political changes in the 1960s to 1980s; the other is a much older population dating back to the Atlantic slave trade . This older group has communities in such countries as Cuba , Dominican Republic , Saint Lucia,
Jamaica , Brazil , Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago among others.
[Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people)
**MY EXPLORATION**
I am a Yoruba born and I have lived most of my life in Yoruba land so which made me to know the language, culture and their way of life. So many cultures have their way of life but Yoruba is different, in my school there is a day set aside for Yoruba dress where everyone is allowed to dress in their cultural attire but Yoruba always show how beautiful they are through their attire.
And also there are ways Yoruba excel in their culture which is, they can greet you any time of the day, no matter where you meet with them and even it doesn't mean they haven't seen you before. Yoruba culture tried always for that.
**CONCLUSION**
I couldn't say everything here on my culture but I just wish to share a little of the culture with my fellow steemian. If you wish to know more on Yoruba in its entirety you can visit this website; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people
**Thanks for reading, Good morning and have a blessed day. And please do upvotes**
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