Yorùbáland

See also: Yorubaland

English

Etymology

From Yorùbá +‎ -land.

Proper noun

Yorùbáland

1. Alternative spelling of Yorubaland.
   • 1971, Black Orpheus, page 5:

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

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.