In Nigeria, stereotypes don’t just live in jokes and social media banter, they shape how people see and treat women. Many of these harmful ideas are tied to ethnic identities, meaning that a Yoruba ...

Charles Novia believes Yoruba women might just have the biggest butts in the world. He makes a satirical write up this time around describing how the Yoruba women of Western Nigeria are so endowed ...

Through dazzling beadwork, a mixed-media art exhibit in Palm Beach County celebrates African Yoruba heritage and family traditions from a rising Nigerian star in global contemporary art. Multimedia ...

Láolú Senbanjo’s singular black and gold geometric patterns welcome Yoruba culture and other Nigerian traditions into a contemporary context, translating the New York-based Nigerian artist’s drawing ...

The twenty-first century ushered in a new era in African popular culture. Hip hop, a popular genre of musical expression, which borrowed extensively from Western and African idioms and iconography of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The photograph depicts Yoruba woman ...

Family size was an indicator of family wealth and wellbeing until the latest hypothesis linking larger family size and poverty. This paper juxtaposed the family size and poverty hypothesis and ...