"Yorùbáland" meaning in English

See Yorùbáland in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Yorùbá + -land. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Yorùbá|land}} Yorùbá + -land Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Yorùbáland
  1. Alternative spelling of Yorubaland. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Yorubaland
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          "ref": "1971, Black Orpheus, page 5:",
          "text": "In Yorùbáland as a whole, long narrative ijálás may be more frequent.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22:",
          "text": "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.",
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