RootKulture

14/09/2023

14/09/2023

NATURAL HEALING LEAVES IN YOUR BACKYARDS FOR VARIOUS RELEIVES.

14/09/2023

DIABETICS' NATURAL HELP AVAILABLE THROUGH WHAT YOU EAT.

30/07/2023

THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A NAIJA YANKEE AND AMERICANA.
Ebira musician captures it unstintingly in this musical comedy.

20/07/2023

IT IS GOING DOWN IN DUBLIN, YOU'RE ALL WELCOME

17/07/2023

WHEN THE OTHER OPTION TO NOT GETTING OLD IS WHAT AGAIN?

16/07/2023

Many myths and legends exist as to the origin of Ogun. Much of the knowledge of the deity is based on the fact that he was one of the earliest divinities. He loved hunting and was referred to as “Osin-Imole”, that is, the Chief among the divinities. He cleared the thick impenetrable way with his iron implements for other divinities when he was coming from heaven to possess the earth. Being a ruthless deity, he lived in seclusion at the top of the hill where he went about hunting. Tired of secluded life, he decided to go for a settled life, which he had rejected earlier on. He came down from the hilltop in a garment of fire and blood but could not find an abode in any community. So he borrowed fronds from the palm tree and headed for Ire where he was made king. Hence, the name Ogun Onire (Ogun, the Lord of Ire) was given to him.



The Ogun Festival in Ondo: The Ogun Festival is celebrated in Ondo between the months of August and September every year. According to Olupona, the preparation for the festival commences seventeen days before the actual Ogun day at the appearance of the new moon. At an early morning ceremony in the house of Ayadi, the ritual specialist of Ogun public worship, the upe (a traditional trumpet made from a long gourd) is sounded to notify the people of the on-coming festival. The sound of upe then becomes a common feature throughout the period of the festival, which lasts seven days. The sound of the upe is very significant because it carries messages which are sometimes complimentary and at other times abusive from one youth to the other.
During the seventeen-day interval, the worshippers of Ogun assemble in groups to praise the divinity and other past cultural heroes associated with him, such as Jomun Ila.
On a major market day, which is nine days before the festival, the king’s emissary makes the official announcement of the ceremony. Many activities are usually carried out in preparation for the festival, among which are the communal clearing of paths and the repairing of bridges and other footpaths. Five days after the festival, a few households perform a ceremony called aleho.
There are usually three parts to the ceremony – aisun ogun (night vigil), ogun ale (night ogun), and Ogun owuro (morning ogun celebration). The procession involves all traditional and modern-day professionals and guilds. Every possible professional group in Ondo – such as blacksmiths, medicine men, and women, drivers, hunters, tailors, and barbers, to mention just a few, participate in this celebration. The only exceptions are probably civil servants and white-collar workers. Most of them are usually dressed in rags, palm- fronds with their faces and bodies smeared with blue dye, white powder, and or charcoal. Some, however, use that period to show affluence and nobility by wearing unusually beautiful multicolored outfits.
The Osemawe is not left out of this festivity. He usually leads the early morning procession. He wears a beaded crown that covers his whole face with a white sheet tied on his left shoulder over his agbada (flowing gown). Others such as the high chiefs, medicine men, and other tradesmen follow the king’s procession. Every professional demonstrates his trade. The most esteemed group is the traditional medicine men referred to as oloogun (medicine people). They are attired in medicine garments laced with all kinds of frightening herbal substances. This group usually engages young school children to write signposts, which display the name of their pedigree and praise names, some with warnings written in proverbs and the metaphorical magico-medical expertise of the oloogun.

16/07/2023

𝟮𝟱 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗦 & 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗥𝗨𝗕𝗔 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘.
The first Nigerian Medical Doctor was Nathaniel Thomas King. His father was Rev Thomas King who assisted Bishop Ajayi Crowder in translating the Bible to Yoruba language. Dr. King lived from 1847 to 1884.
The Yoruba language is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native speakers in the world, 50 million people speak the Yoruba language natively in 2022 according to Ethnologue.
The first Nigerian Lawyer was Chief Sapara Williams. A Yoruba man who became a Lawyer in 1879. He was the Lodifi of Ilesa.
WNTV Ibadan was the first TV station in Nigeria and Africa. The first broadcast was aired on October 31, 1959. The government of Yorubaland was visionary enough to ensure their denizens had access to mass audiovisual media before countries like; Egypt: in 1960, New Zealand: in 1960, Israel: in 1966 & South Africa: in 1976. The station played a significant role in beaming-taped Yoruba traveling theatre productions to households all over the old Western region.
The first Nigerian to release a music album was Canon Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti, Fela Anikulapo’s grandfather and Wole Soyinka’s great-grandfather. He released it in 1878 and his last album was released in August 1921. His works are still kept at the British Museum.
In 1894, Olayinka Herbert Macaulay became the first trained Nigerian Engineer. He also trained in England as an Architect. He was a Civil Engineer. He later ventured into politics and formed the first political party in Nigeria, the Nigeria National Democratic Party, NNDP in 1923, and later the NCNC, the National Council of Nigeria, and Cameroons. He was also a Journalist and a Surveyor. He is widely considered the founder of Nigerian Nationalism.
The first Nigerian woman to qualify and practice law was Stella Thomas, a Yoruba woman who became a Lawyer in 1935 and also became the first female magistrate in Nigeria in 1943.
Dr. Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi nee Akerele was the first female physician in Nigeria. She became a Medical Doctor in 1910.
Folake Solanke was the first female Senior Advocate in Nigeria. She was also the first Nigerian female lawyer to wear the silk gown as Senior Counsel.
The first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria was Sir Adetokunbo Ademola. He was also the longest-serving Chief Justice of Nigeria between 1958 and 1972.
The Yoruba language and culture is one of the most influential on the African continent and in the Americas. The Yoruba is also one of the best-researched ethnicities in Africa.
Chief Akintola Williams was the first Chartered Accountant in Nigeria who qualified in 1919 and also the first Nigerian to form a private accounting firm, Akintola Williams and Co in 1952.
The first woman to drive a car in Nigeria was Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of Olikoye, Fela, and Beko.
The Yoruba people have the highest spontaneous rate of twin births in the world- About 1 in 20 births. Twins were traditionally revered and highly sought after in Yoruba society. There is an Orisha that protects them.
Emmanuel Olatunde Odeku (born, Emanuel Olatunde Alaba Olanrewaju Odeku from Awe in Oyo state 1927, Lagos, Nigeria – died, London, 1974) was the first African neurosurgeon trained in the United States who also pioneered neurosurgery in Africa.
Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde and Moses Olaiya are regarded as the patriarchs of the Nigerian theatre and movie industry. Ogunde was an actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the first contemporary professional theatrical company in Nigeria, the African Music Research Party, in 1945.
The first bank in Nigeria was established in Lagos in 1894, 10 years before the amalgamation. Its second branch was opened in Calabar in 1912 and it was facilitated by King Jaja of Opobo. It had its first northern branch in Zaria.
It is First Bank Nigeria.
The Yoruba homeland, based majorly in the Southwestern part of Nigeria, is home to more than 70% of Nigeria's industrial capacity and is also host to the backbone of Nigeria's entertainment industry.
In 1986, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, the great-grandson of Canon Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti became the first African to win a Nobel Laureate in the field of Literature.
In 1976, Shooting Stars Sports Club 3SC of Ibadan formerly known as WNDC Ibadan (Western Nigeria Development Company), and were later called IICC (Industrial Investment and Credit Corporation) won the African Winners’ Cup thereby becoming the first Nigerian club side to win continental honour for Nigeria.
The first Nigerian to score a World Cup goal was Rashidi Yekini. He was a Yoruba man from Kwara state. He scored it against Bulgaria in USA ‘94.
The area of Yorubaland covers approximately 145,000 square Kilometre of land. Were it to be an independent country, it would be physically bigger than Greece, Hungary, Serbia, South Korea, Portugal, Ireland, Sierra Leone, and many more countries.
The first television station in Africa was the Western Nigerian Television Service located in Ibadan and established in 1959.
The first university in Nigeria is the University of Ibadan. Today, the Southwestern part of Nigeria also has the highest number of private universities in Nigeria.
The Yoruba are a people with a historical propensity for living in large urban centers. Yoruba cities have always been among the most populous in Africa. Today, around 11.5% of all West Africans are ethnic Yoruba while Yorubaland contains more than 30% of all Nigerian cities with over 100,000 people. They have been described as the most Urban African ethnic group by various ethnologists, sociologists, and anthropologic writers.
CMS Grammar School, Lagos is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was established in 1859.
And the first known primary school in Nigeria was Nursery of the Infant Church established in 1843 in Badagry and moved to its permanent site and renamed St Thomas Primary School in 1845.

14/07/2023

DO THIS AND SEE YOUR SKIN GLOW.

08/07/2023

When I praise Yoruba culture, many think I am referring to just the Yoruba in Nigeria. Many Nigerians, and even the Yorubas in Nigeria, are unaware that there are millions of Yoruba people in Brazil who speak Yoruba, bear Yoruba names like Babatunde, eat Yoruba food, like acaraje (Acara je is the original name for acara and means you count, you buy and you eat), and "dobale" for their parents and elders. Yes, let that sink in.

The Yoruba spoken in Cuba is purer than the Yoruba spoken in Lagos. And they do Oríkì.

It was in Cuba that the Yoruba there taught me that Èṣù is not satan or the devil, as many of us in Nigeria have been misled to believe.

Enslaved people were taken from virtually every ethnicity in Southern Nigeria, but only the Yoruba kept their culture until this very day in the Americas. And not only did they keep their culture, they have expanded it. There are now an estimated 50 million people who identify as believers in the Santeria religion, which is a fusion of Yoruba Ifa worship and Catholicism, which is the dominant aspect of Ifa worship.

And the reason Yoruba culture has withstood the test of space and time, in my opinion, is because of the respect aspect of their culture. It has kept them the way the Sabbath has kept the Jews.

Copied from Reno Omokri.

28/06/2023

YORUBA IS A GEM OF A LANGUAGE TO BEHOLD.

26/06/2023

SLOW DOWN AND BE PATIENT WITH LIFE

If You Are Looking For Wealth, Somebody else Is Looking For Health.

If You Are Looking For Health, Somebody else Just Dièd.

If You are Looking For Power, Somebody else Has Acquired And Used it, And he/she is now Powerless.

Each Time You Drive A Fancy Car, Somebody, Somewhere Is Dying In A Car Crash.

Each Time a New Mansion Springs From The Earth, A New Grave is Dug Below The Earth.

Each Time You Throw Away A Morsel, Somebody else somewhere is Searching For a Morsel To Survive.

Each Time You Throw Food Into Dustbin, Someone else Is Looking For Remnant To Eat.

Each Time You Ask God To Promote or Change Your Present Situation, Someone else Is Praying to Get To Your Present Situation.

For Each Smile On The Planet, There's a Drop Of Tear In Another Place On The Planet.

For Each Celebration Of Childbirth, There Are Tears of Bùrial.

Each Time You Urinate Or Drink Water, Remember Someone Is Using Pipe For The Same Purpòse.

So Always Be Thankful.

Think of the Goodness u have rather than the vanities u long for,..
IELTS with Mohsin Ihsan

21/06/2023

THE CURATIVE MAGIC OF THE MAIZE CORN

05/06/2023

NATURAL HELP FOR YOUR KNEE PROBLEMS.

17/04/2023

MATURES CODED NIGHTS EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT @ ANU'S KITCHEN WITH YOUR HOST, OZZONE BABA AND THE SURPRISE DJ.

13/04/2023

IRELAND IS READY TO WELCOME THIS INNOVATIVE EVENT.

13/04/2023

ROOTKULTURE, BRINGS YOU THE BEST CULTURAL PROGRAMS

13/04/2023

ROOTKULTURE DUBLIN

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13/04/2023

ROOTKULTURE BRINGING YOU THE LATER IN CULTURAL EVENT

IRELAND IS READY TO WELCOME THIS INNOVATIVE EVENT.

10/02/2023

I present to you the extraordinary life of Kokoro, the Owo-born musical genius who was blinded by a jealous step, Mum.
Share and let the 2022 Nigerian boy that is planning to kill others to make money see that virtue and excellence can be pursued even under the most excruciating circumstance!
Video - Kokoro as narrated by Prof. Wole Soyinka.

08/02/2023

CURRENT LICENSED RADIO STATIONS WITH FREQUENCY (IBADAN)
1. Omoluabi 87.7 FM
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