This article is mainly sourced from Laurent Fourchard's paper titled - The Case of Ibadan, Nigeria* Let us take you on a whirlwind tour of Ibadan, a city with more layers than a Yoruba bride's gele. This is a place where history and hustle meet, shake hands, and...
On Saturday, May 25th, 2024, the town of Loughborough came alive with the sounds, flavours, and stories of Africa. In a heartwarming and energetic gathering at The Hub Project, KARIBANI, in collaboration with The Business of Being and DEAR JESAS, hosted the second...
Perhaps you may have heard of ChatGPT. For those who have not, ChatGPT(Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is simply a model 'which interacts in a conversational way'. In more technical terms, according to Wikipedia, it is a is a chatbot built on top of...
Over, the years, many African countries have seen a lot of their people move out of the country overseas in search of greener pastures. Outside their natural habitat, they realize that they start doing things the way their new environment does. Most of the times,...
Every parent wants overall development for their Children. This is why we have parents sending their kids to school, engaging in physical activities such as taking them to playgrounds, reading bedtime stories and even helping out with homeworks and so much more. We...
Igbo Men celebrating their culture. Where did the Igbos come from? The story of the origin of the Igbos is not a unanimous one. Some believe the popular Igbo Folklore that states the Igbo people descended from Eri, a divine figure who was sent from heaven to Earth to...
It is often said that a Man’s identity is tied to the language he speaks. Through pronunciations, accents and dictions, you can pick out a Briton from an American, a Ghanaian from a Nigerian. Languages help to tie us to a...
Do you know that it is widely believed that the origin of the Yoruba as a nation is traced back to Oduduwa in the city of Ile-Ife. Ile-Ife is a city in Osun State, a south-western part of Nigeria. It is acclaimed that in Ile-Ife, there is a spot where Olodumare, the supreme being created man, and as such Ife is usually referred to as the capital of the realm of humanity. Research has shown that as early as the 8th century, a powerful kingdom already existed in Ile-Ife which makes it one of the most ancient civilizations in Africa. This civilization, though ancient, is yet an advanced civilization in the world with an estimated 25million native speakers which makes it one of the largest in Africa. While Yoruba is a language, it encapsulates the very idea of a group of people with shared ancestry and history, all embodied within this language.
The Yoruba people have spread across different parts of the world with the language being spoken by native Yoruba and Non-Yoruba people alike. We can therefore find them in South-western Nigeria, Southern Benin, Eastern and Northern Togo as well as in the Americas; Cuba, Brazil, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and so on. This language has become a source of unification among people who thought themselves to be strangers in a foreign land, only to realize that they are from the same “abule” –village. A language which has become a symbol of home between speakers; a symbol of kinship and relatedness. Perhaps, you long for this feeling of belonging for you and/or your children, Karibani is where to begin this reconnection from. Immerse yourself in the deep intricacies of the Yoruba; a language we speak and a home we belong to.
This article is mainly sourced from Laurent Fourchard's paper titled - The Case of Ibadan, Nigeria* Let us take you on a whirlwind tour of Ibadan, a city with more layers than a Yoruba bride's gele. This is a place where history and hustle meet, shake hands, and...
On Saturday, May 25th, 2024, the town of Loughborough came alive with the sounds, flavours, and stories of Africa. In a heartwarming and energetic gathering at The Hub Project, KARIBANI, in collaboration with The Business of Being and DEAR JESAS, hosted the second...
Perhaps you may have heard of ChatGPT. For those who have not, ChatGPT(Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is simply a model 'which interacts in a conversational way'. In more technical terms, according to Wikipedia, it is a is a chatbot built on top of...
Over, the years, many African countries have seen a lot of their people move out of the country overseas in search of greener pastures. Outside their natural habitat, they realize that they start doing things the way their new environment does. Most of the times,...
Every parent wants overall development for their Children. This is why we have parents sending their kids to school, engaging in physical activities such as taking them to playgrounds, reading bedtime stories and even helping out with homeworks and so much more. We...
Igbo Men celebrating their culture. Where did the Igbos come from? The story of the origin of the Igbos is not a unanimous one. Some believe the popular Igbo Folklore that states the Igbo people descended from Eri, a divine figure who was sent from heaven to Earth to...
It is often said that a Man’s identity is tied to the language he speaks. Through pronunciations, accents and dictions, you can pick out a Briton from an American, a Ghanaian from a Nigerian. Languages help to tie us to a...