CENTER FOR EXPOSITION OF YORUBA ARTS AND CULTURE aggregates and disseminates material relevant to the knowledge of Yoruba culture and arts worldwide . The organisation maintains a forum and resources database at the website www.yorubaland.org

Yorubaland Journal ISSN 2040-1086 is published annually..

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ABOUT YORUBA
Yorùbá people are one of the largest ethno-linguistic or ethnic groups in west Africa. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language. The Yoruba constitute around 30 million individuals throughout West Africa and are found predominantly in Nigeria with approximately 21 percent of its total population. Yoruba religion and mythology is a major influence in West Africa, chiefly in Nigeria, and it has given origin to several New World religions such as Santería in Cuba and Puerto Rico, Voudoun in Haiti, and Candomblé in Brazil.

The first notable observation of first-time visitors to Yorubaland is the richness and variety of the culture, which is even made more visible by the urbanized social structure of Yoruba settlement. The Yoruba are fond of ceremonies-naming, wedding, chieftaincy titles and celebration of life in death.

These occasions are used to showcase the richness of the culture. Traditional musicians are always on hand to grace the occasions with heavy rhythm of talking drum and percussion; praise singers and griots are there to add their historical insight to the meaning of the ceremony, and of course the varieties of colorful dresses attest to the aesthetic sense of the average Yoruba.

Yoruba (native name èdè Yorùbá, 'the Yoruba language') is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 25 million speakers.The native tongue of the approximately 28 million Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among communities in Brazil, Sierra Leone (where it is called Oku), northern Ghana (where it is spoken by urban migrant Yoruba communities alongside Hausa and local languages) and Cuba (where it is called Nago). Yoruba is an isolating, tonal language . Yoruba is the third most spoken native African language.