Mayowa retweeted
"If Yoruba tax means that our culture commands a premium, then yes. We are taxing proudly.
For any young Yoruba creative reading this, your identity is the most valuable creative resource you have.
Go deeper into your identity, learn about your ancestors and from those that came before you and start to create from that place.
Stop waiting for permission to be proudly yourself. The doors are already open."
Mayowa retweeted
This is why we've been shouting cultural preservation.
Religious extremism deliberately targets a society's cultural fabric so it can replace it with its own structures: by removing Ọbas, or installing extremists in traditional leadership roles.
Too many Yorùbá youths are detached from our culture, and that leaves space for something more sinister to take root.
We need to reawaken our systems: ẹgbẹ́, esùsú, and introduce Yorùbá clubs and societies in every SW school and tertiary institution. Return to the agbo ilé way, instead of living in isolation.
Our culture has always been tolerant and multi-faith. That's exactly why extremists want it gone.
Mayowa retweeted
It has never made sense to me that people willingly and eagerly throw away their roots and culture.
If as an Ekiti woman I marry an Osun man, it doesn't make me an Osun woman. I will always and forever be an Ekiti woman, and my children are both Osun and Ekiti.
Mayowa retweeted
It's only in Lagos language doesn't matter.
Mayowa retweeted
You people don't disappoint us, this is what we know you for.
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Mayowa retweeted
RT
Oku ofo
Serious one.
Haaa
All of them should be ashamed.
Including the interviewer.
Mayowa retweeted
You must look carefully to see why this video is problematic, for the Yoruba culture.
Isn't Gele Yoruba ?
Why is an Ibo drummer featured alongside the Yoruba drummer, at this Yoruba exhibition ?
Why sprinkle all over this exhibition, the Ibo motif, comprised of items (Ibo dancing, the abebe fan, etc) copied by Ibo from other cultures ?
The aim is to promote imagery that weaves Ibo into the Gele story - Essentially making Ibo parallel to the Yoruba story.
Why is an Ibo, Stanley Arinze, co-hosting this event with Dotun David Popoola, to curate and tell the Yoruba story of Gele ?
Are Yoruba and Ibo twins ?
We, Yoruba, did not even know Ibo existed in their forests, until the British colonization, when Ibo became exposed to Yoruba culture via Nigeria.
Today (October 2026), Ibo are now pushing clever ways to weave and parallel Ibo alongside Yoruba's cultural items - And all it took was one Dotun David Popoola, who is aloof to what is happening, used by Ibo to misappropriate his own Yoruba culture, in a way that he is too blind or shortsighted to see.
Perhaps Dotun is too busy enjoying the attention, and spinning his agbada, to see.🤡⬇️
Mayowa retweeted
They will never tell their inlaws to accomodate Yoruba people and share things meant for them, they know those ones are fully conservative and will guard their things with their lives. It's only Yoruba people they always try to gaslight to one Nigeria things meant for them with others. 🤡
Attires, you'll defend appropriation
Foods, you'll lie it's for all nigerians and they make it better
Culture, "anybody can do it if they are married to you"
Politics too you'll fight to include them yet you don't want to be called names. At what point do you use your brain and stop sabotaging us at every corner? Eyin eni aijiri gbogbo yi
Mayowa retweeted
All of the people supporting the unprecedented claim that non-Yorùbá women become Yorùbá through marriage fall into three categories: Yorùbá men, people whose mother aren't Yorùbá, and non-Yorùbá themselves. Again, Yorùbá men are always supporting the displacement of Yorùbá women
Mayowa retweeted
Don’t get carried away.
There is nothing happening to another woman that cannot happen to you.
We live in a crazy society. I’m telling you, it’s crazy.
Mayowa retweeted
So many Yoruba People don't know the value of Yoruba culture.
Our level of ethnic consciousness within a multi-ethnic Nigeria, is very low - But there is hope from increases signs of an awakening.
Mayowa retweeted
Explain "look like your culture" to us.
And not everyone is like you, I eat my cultural food everyday, my hair is plaited in an ordinary form, so I won't let anyone appropriate my culture.
We don't need another tribes to do what is in our culture, our culture is our culture only.
Mayowa retweeted
I love how they have learned. Yorubas in Lagos has seen what happened to itsekiri’s in Warri. If you don’t learn you’ll cry like us. Your tenants will call you minority in your own land. They will say they are more than you. Take every political position down to ward leaders let all be Yoruba. It’s your land defend it.
"The Igbo candidate we chose is nowhere to be found. Once he arrived in Abuja, he said we are nothing. He even called us the Yorubas in his constituency a minority. That alone is humiliating. It is quite shameful, and we have all now seen that he does not deserve our support. We will participate massively in the coming elections. We must convince our children, who seem indifferent to the election, to come out and vote. As they vote for Hon. Ladi, they should also vote for Obe for the House of Representatives, Adebule for Senate, Hamzat for Governor of Lagos, and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for President."
- Osolo HRM Oba Issa Abiodun Faronbi-Shekoni
Mayowa retweeted
The term doesn’t mean uniform I assume you’re referring to “and-co” modernized to “anco” Asoebi is loosely translated to “cloth for the family” used to signify oneness in occasions as Yoruba people see fit. Igbo brides should refer to their bridal train as “akwa ofu” not *ashebi
Mayowa retweeted
This is cultural suicide, even Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in the world dares not practise this.
Ethnicity is by descent, never by marriage, and stating that fact is not automatically bad.
Mayowa retweeted
Culture is not transferable by marriage. A non-Yoruba man marrying a yoruba woman does not make him a yoruba man. The same goes for the woman. An adult female who has spent nearly three decades in a different culture does not get to shape-shift simply because she married into a different one.